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Supermarket group Tesco has today announced that it has bought the award-winning restaurant group Giraffe.

The acquisition forms part of Tesco’s strategy to develop the space in some of its larger stores and create even more compelling retail destinations where customers can meet, eat and drink, as well as shop. The first Giraffe restaurant to open next to a Tesco store will be near London.

Giraffe, which has a restaurant in Exeter, is a leading family-friendly restaurant that offers a wide range of fresh, seasonal, quality food, comfortable interiors and friendly staff....

Former Energy minister Chris Huhne and his former wife Vicky Pryce have each been jailed for eight months for lying about a speeding offence committed ten years ago.

The pair, sentenced at Southwark Crown Court today (11 March), did not look at each other and remained passive as first Huhne and then Pryce learned the result of the court case.

Huhne received a 10% reduction in his sentence because he pleaded guilty.

Pryce had claimed she had taken the points for her then husband because of marital coercion, but was convicted last week. The judge, Mr Justice Sweeney,...

Scientists are launching a Europe-wide survey which aims to provide the first detailed insight into people’s perceptions of marine litter.

The survey, being conducted by Plymouth University, will assess how people’s attitudes towards the impacts and the potential solutions to this growing environmental problem vary between countries and between those who manufacture, sell, use or dispose of the numerous items which can become marine litter.

It is being led by Professor Richard Thompson, from the Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, and Dr Sabine Pahl and Bonny...

Seven people from West Cornwall have been charged with drugs offences following a two-year Police investigation.

The six men and a woman have all been charged with conspiracy to import drugs into the UK and also with supplying Class B drugs.

All seven will appear before Truro Magistrates Court on Thursday 28 March 2013.

Those charged are: Martyn Couchman, 34; Aaron Lampshire, 34; Valerie Isaacs, 48; Ryan Clapp, 24; Brian Hendra, 26; Jonathan Taylor, 24, who are all from the Camborne area; Peter Cuffe, 30, from the Redruth area. Police ref: AC/13/754