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Mark Evans and his six-year-old son hit the British capital to see the sights and found there was a lot more for a child to experience than dinosaurs, Big Ben and a big wheel    

A psychiatric nurse who was injured when boxes of Weetabix breakfast cereal fell on her in Tesco has been awarded €135,000 in damages.

Coca-Cola has held on to its position as the biggest selling brand in the Irish grocery market for 10 years, according to the latest Checkout Top 100 Brands report, produced by Checkout magazine in association with Nielsen.

Verbal battles over Damian McBride’s memoirs at the Labour conference escalated into actual fisticuffs, as the ex-spin doctor’s publisher stepped in to stop a protester disrupting the publicity drive for his controversial memoirs.

IMAGINE you are a rake-thin woman.

TRENDS are dictating yellow is the colour of the year, and while it may not appeal instantly to everyone, it has an optimistic, cheery feel about it.

Weetabix has been ordered to remove its WeetaKid app after a British watchdog ruled that it was likely to make children feel inferior if they did not eat the company’s products.

China’s Bright Food has completed its acquisition of 60% of Weetabix in a deal valuing the UK cereals business at £1.2bn (€1.5bn).

I CAN’T remember who said it, but it has a certain resonance: the first child is like the first pancake. We get better with subsequent attempts.

China’s Bright Food will take control of breakfast cereal maker Weetabix, beloved by generations of Irish children, in the biggest foreign acquisition by a Chinese food group.

The UK company that makes the breakfast cereal Weetabix has been bought by a Chinese outfit.

British cereal favourite Weetabix is to come under Chinese ownership after a deal involving the Asian country's biggest overseas food takeover.

A Chinese state-backed food company has renewed its hunger for British brands by holding talks to buy cereal business Weetabix, it has been reported.

Noodle chain Wagamama is to step up its restaurant opening programme after being snapped up by a private equity firm in a £215m (€244m) deal today.

The maker of upmarket Kettle Chips has been sold to a US snack firm after an auction valuing the business at more than £400m (€448m).

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HAVING a breakfast is more important for children than the make-up of the cereals they eat, according to Safefood, the body responsible for the promotion of food safety.

Little effort appears to have been made to reduce sugar in children’s cereals nearly three years after a damning report, a British consumer watchdog said today.

The Women’s British Open, which in August will become the first championship for women professionals ever to be played over the Old Course at St Andrews, has a new title sponsor.

Potato chip maker Kettle Foods was today bought by Lion Capital as part of a move to create the UK’s second-biggest snack business.

A United States private equity group today said it was buying breakfast cereal group Weetabix for about $1.11bn (€932m).

EARLY risers who paid homage to the most important meal of the day — breakfast — were honoured yesterday.