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Thursday, 05 February 2004

A secondary school has removed its old vending machines and installed new models selling organic orange juice, muesli sticks, mineral water and fair trade chocolate.

Nigel Hill, headmaster of Queensbury school in Dunstable, said that the change had been made because of fears over the effect of a poor diet on pupils' behaviour. The school used to make £20,000 a year from the old vending machines and the company behind the six-month trial, Green Machines, has said that it will make up any loss in revenue.
Source: The Times, The Telegraph via www.soilassociation.org