Entertainment 24-03-2005 who: TV chef Jamie Oliver what: Puts pressure on government with Feed Me Better petition when: This week snippet: Following the success of his documentary series Jamie`s School Dinners, The feedmebetter.com website has already logged more than 200,000 signatures in support of his campaign to ban junk food from the school canteen. The Guardian says education secretary Ruth Kelly has promised to announce an increased budget for school dinners in "a few weeks"; school food supplier Scolarest says it cannot provide the kind of food parents are demanding unless the average of 45p per meal per child is increased to 60p or 70p. An investigation by The Mirror says that, with the exception of the USA, school food the world over is better than Britain`s. And finally, in a blow to Jamie`s campaign, manufacturer Bernard Matthews says sales of Turkey Twizzlers - singled out in the programme for their poor nutritional value - increased by 32% last month over the same period last year. [... more]

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