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Dorset Echo Rachel Stretton

SCHOOL meals are being transported more than 200 miles across country each day to reach Dorset schoolchildren. Food eaten by children in more than 100 schools across Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole is prepared in a factory in Nottingham, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.
Parents’ groups and school governors have hit out at the ‘ludicrous’ situation which means lorries have clocked up 1,000 miles per week transporting food for schoolchildren. Margaret Morrissey, of national group Parents Outloud, said she …

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