Ed Balls: ‘Fast food restaurants should be barred from opening near schools’ - Daily Mail 28th October 2008

Fast-food outlets should be barred from opening near schools, Ed Balls will say today. The Schools Secretary also believes pupils should be prevented from leaving the premises at lunchtime to improve their diets. There is ‘no point’ banning junk food in schools if teenagers can dodge healthy menus by buying from takeaway outlets which undercut school prices, he will say.

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