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BigBarn brings together more than 400 producers, selling over 6,500 products. Suppliers from across the country are gathered into a virtual marketplace with the mission to build a better, local, food Industry.

The tenth British Food Fortnight that took place from 17th September to 2nd October celebrated ten years of success for the national food promotion. It defied the recession with sales increases reported by the hundreds of shops, pubs and restaurants that took part and names as big as ARAMARK, BHS, John Lewis, Harrods, St Paul’s Cathedral, St Pancras International train station and X Factor’s Dermott O’Leary’s restaurants all flying the flag for British food.

We all have days when we feel we are going to 'blow a fuse' or have just had enough and can't wait to get home and crawl back under the duvet. But when does a bad day turn into stress and what if the stress takes over?

Today sees the start of chocolate week - as if we needed a reason to indulge in the dark stuff - but in an effort to try and include ourselves in all the awareness weeks we will whole-heartedly join in on this one! As it is also egg week we did wonder if we could kill two birds with one stone and opt for eating chocolate eggs, but decided that if we started the day with a fresh free range British egg on toast - then surely a small bar of chocolate for lunch would constitute a perfect balance?

All you need to know to get started in yoga - including the health benefits, yoga styles for beginners and finding a yoga class. Yoga is an ancient form of exercise that focuses on strength, flexibility and breathing to boost physical and mental wellbeing. The main components of yoga are postures (a series of movements designed to increase strength and flexibility) and breathing.

Researcher have suggested that newborn babies are guided to their food supply by their noses. A trip to the local maternity ward or nursery could have given them their answers in record time - straight from the 'horses' mouth.