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What are ‘frankenchickens’? Pret boycott over animal welfare concerns

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The Independent UK

Customer fury as Pret refuses to reverse ‘frankenchicken’ broken pledge despite social media storm

Thousands of people boycott stores over ‘broken promise’ to end use of birds that suffer chronic pain and heart failure

The Independent UK

AI Is Now Detecting Cancer Years Before Doctors Can — New 2026 Research Shows How Machine Learning Is Transforming Diagnosis

A 2026 Nature Cancer AI identified 18 cancer types with high accuracy from minimal slides. A Mayo Clinic AI detected pancreatic cancer up to 3 years before diagnosis — nearly doubling specialist rates.

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Parents of London teenager who died after eating Pret sandwich launch £10m allergy research fund

Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, 15, from Fulham, west London, died in July 2016 following a severe allergic reaction to sesame baked into the Pret sandwich

Evening Standard

Pret A Manger opens first drive-thru restaurant

The new shop is located at BP Oakwood Gate Service station in Birchwood, just off the M6 at Junction 21.

Evening Standard

Pret A Manger hits ‘major milestone’ as it opens its first UK drive-thru restaurant

It is a trial format for the brand as it expands its presence in transport and travel locations across the UK

The Independent UK

Pret A Manger classic sandwich missing from shelves as UK faces shortage of cornichons

The jambon beurre has disappeared in recent weeks, much to the dismay of customers

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Cornichon shortage leaves British sandwich shops in a pickle

Shortage of pickled mini-cucumbers has caused Pret a Manger to pull its jambon beurre from shelves

The Guardian - UK

Slop it like it’s hot: the rise of build-your-own takeaway salad bowls

How did this pick-n-mix salad-and-protein sludge become a typical working lunch?

The Guardian - UK

Police officer says stealing £2.25 baguette was due to a lack of sleep

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The Independent UK

Shoplifting Met Police officer who stole £2 tuna baguette from Pret branch dismissed

PC David Fyfe carried out ‘reprehensible’ conduct while in uniform, a panel found

Evening Standard

Hang on, £15 salads – when did eating lunch at your desk become so expensive?

LET’S UNPACK THAT: Pret, Farmer J and atis are selling £15 salad bowls to hybrid workers who want to eat well at lunch. But are these mega salads genuinely healthy, or just bigger, pricier versions of a meal deal? Hannah Twiggs examines how lunch lost its limits

The Independent UK

London’s healthiest lunches: A nutritionist ranks the high street options

What to eat (and what to avoid) if you’ve had enough of the 4pm slump

Evening Standard

‘We wrote it living on Tesco sandwiches and anxiety attacks!’ How Operation Mincemeat conquered the world

It started out as a fringe musical about an outlandish war plan – and became a West End and Broadway smash. As the show hits China, Australia and Mexico, its ‘nerd’ creators explain how they went global with a box of hats and a dream

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‘The smell of truffle is genuinely glamorous’: the best Christmas sandwiches in 2025

Sandwich messiah Max Halley sorts the merry from the meh in our taste test of supermarket and high-street festive butties

The Independent UK

Christmas sandwiches have become unhinged – so why does Britain keep buying them?

COMMENT: They’re overpriced, structurally unsound and weirder by the year, yet we buy them anyway. Hannah Twiggs investigates the runaway Christmas-sandwich economy, the cold-roast physics behind them and why your pick reveals more about you than it should

Evening Standard

The Standard's Big Misteak podcast launches

David Ellis and Josh Barrie launch The Standard's latest podcast

Evening Standard

Pret fans furious over missing Christmas menu item

Some customers were livid at the decision

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Evening Standard

Eight of the best club sandwiches in London, from £5.99 to £40

The club sandwich, more than 100 years old, is a timeless creation

Evening Standard

Josh Barrie On the Sauce at Bar Flor: Basque and it shall be given you...

This bar below Wildflowers is a beautiful thing

Evening Standard

London's 10 best old-school Italian restaurants

From 2 Veneti to Trevi, here’s where to go for your spaghetti fix, according to Josh Barrie

The Independent UK

Teen who died after eating Pret baguette would be ‘proud’ of allergy law changes

Natasha died after eating sesame baked into a Pret A Manger baguette in 2016

The Independent UK

Girl who died after eating Pret baguette ‘would be proud of law change impact’

A change in the law now requires all food outlets to provide a full ingredients list and allergy labelling.

Evening Standard

As Pret loses half a billion, can the lunch king fight back?

The stakes are high and the competition is fiercer than ever — but the sandwich chain is making big moves to bring back its salad days, writes Jonathan Prynn

The Guardian - UK

Overbaked prices? What a Greggs sausage roll and Pret meal deal say about how much Britons will pay

Food inflation pushes consumers to the limits of what they are willing to spend, costing retailers sales

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