Sunday Round Up: Best before dates, Stephen Fry, Alternative Vote, PR shy corporates, Christians and Wills & Kate
The Telegraph reports that best before dates are now past their sell by date as government ministers seek to clamp down on Britain’s throw away culture. It forms part of a simplification drive for food labelling that will reverse a recent explosion in instructions and info plastered over food packaging.
The Guardian meanwhile casts its eyes over 10 corporate giants that no-one has ever heard of. Lifting the lid on publicity shy global conglomerates from the UK’s invisible Permira and INEOS to the murky Renaissance Group in Russia the paper gets a handle on billion dollar enterprises which shirk the limelight.
Over on Sky News the broadcaster is filling the morning airwaves with Paddy Ashdown’s intervention in the upcoming Alternative Vote referendum, accusing George Osborne of “tawdry” tactics after the Chancellor claimed the Electoral Reform Society, a major backer of the Yes campaign, would be a beneficiary of a switch.
Elsewhere the BBC notes that Stephen Fry is preparing for martyrdom over last year’s hoax Robin Hood airport Twitter bomb threat. With its author, Paul Chambers, psyched for a spell behind bars over the rogue tweet Fry has said he is prepared for a stint down his local nick in solidarity by continuing to re-tweet the message.
The Mail tells the tale of an electrician who is extremely cross at having been barred from promoting his favourite religion whilst on company business. The Wakefield and District HA handyman had taken to placing a wooden cross on his van dashboard - but was instructed to remove it on the grounds that it might offend people or suggest his organisation was Christian.
And finally with Royal wedding fever building Scotland on Sunday has revealed that Wills and Kate are seeking an official title to cement their new role – the Dukedom of Strathearn. It could become the couple’s official title in Scotland when they tie the knot on April 29.