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Francois Hollande

French President “causes mass depression amongst his people”

The emergency address made by President Francois Hollande on French television last night could certainly be a good political move to calm down his political rivals. The reason for this last minute emergency address was due to the revelations of his affair with Julie Gayet. He wanted to avoid any more embarrassing revelations getting out. He claimed that he and his[Read More…]

First it was tobacco and now it is sugar

First it was tobacco and now it is sugar

Sugar now makes up the world’s largest killer. With a rise in obesity and diabetes, food chiefs have now intervened to ask big food co-operations to cut the amount of sugar they put in its industrialised food. Researchers have found that zero-fat yoghurts can contain five teaspoons of sugar, whilst Heinz tomato soup has four, and a Mars bar has[Read More…]

Lidl promotes healthy eating

Lidl promotes healthy eating

Lidl is the first supermarket in the UK to start tackling obesity. It has currently been reported that they are going to be removing all chocolates, sweets and crisps from its 600 stores across the UK. The reason for this is the fact that they wanted to promote healthy snacks as appose to unhealthy options, which many parents are tempted[Read More…]

Jonas Stadden before being taken into care

Vulnerable child dies after the state separates him from family

This is perhaps one of the most shocking cases of child abuse that we have ever had to cover at the Akashic Times. Jonas Stadden was a vulnerable four year old with down’s syndrome, living in Somerset who was described as a happy-go-lucky, ‘bubbly’ child. He had five other siblings and was the special ‘little’ brother who was loved spoiled[Read More…]

Tina Thompson

Waitrose under the spotlight after selling glow-in-the-dark prawns

If you are thinking of buying prawns – or indeed any food from the supermarket – you may want to think twice – they could be radioactive. A former mayor has spoken of her shock after frozen prawns that she purchased from supermarket Waitrose started glowing in the dark. Tina Thompson, 69, from Rutherwyke Close, Stoneleigh, had defrosted the supermarket’s[Read More…]