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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Diane Taylor

EXPLAINED: Home office contractor gives children hotel food containing worms | Vintage Vibes

A close-up image of fish and chips
A four-year-old boy, not realising that his fish and chips contained worms, began vomiting soon after he started eating. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Children at a Home Office hotel unwittingly ate worms that were in food provided to them by government contractors, the Guardian has learned.

A four-year-old boy, not realising that his meal of fish and chips contained worms, began vomiting soon after he started to eat it. Paramedics were called and the boy was taken to hospital.

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