Ireland’s minister for health Simon Harrisrecently announced plansto mandate that restaurants display calorie counts next to all items on their menus. The idea has been floating around for some time, and similar initiatives have been proposed in the UK and elsewhere to combat obesity. The reasoni...
For households with a car, and many didn’t when I was a child, the motoring handbook was a very useful travel guide. In the UK back in the 50s, we had the RAC and the AA. My dad favoured the RAC. With the membership the motorist got breakdown and rescue cover and every year rec...