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Report Reveals Extent of European 'Ugly' Food Waste

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More than a third of farmed fruit and vegetables never reaches supermarket shelves because it is misshapen or the wrong size, according to new research.

The new University of Edinburgh study found more than 50 million tonnes of fruit and vegetables grown across Europe is discarded each year.

Also on the programme: we get the latest from Kerala, where entire villages have been washed away by floods and on the anniversary of a western-backed coup in Iran, is another one being prepared?

(Photo: A vegetable stall, Credit: Press Association)

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Sun 19 Aug 201820:06GMT

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  • Sun 19 Aug 201820:06GMT

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