26/05/2011

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Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. Down the drains with a flusher - we count the cost of clearing up the baby wipes and face cleaners we insist on flushing down the loo. The death of a child in a nursery playground has highlighted how the regulator, OFSTED, does not always publish information which parents might view as vital. John Waite reports. Last week David Cameron outlined the areas where Ministers will be rethinking NHS reforms in England. But what do GPs think about this change of heart, and what will it mean for them? Why are we finding it so hard to wean ourselves off peat? Jamie Oliver's put his name to a compost containing it and Alan Titchmarsh admits using it - but in 1990 the British government set targets to reduce peat use by 90% by 2010. Garden writer Mark Diacono, Head of Gardens at River Cottage, and Tim Briercliffe of the Horticultural Trade Association, discuss.