Rosa Prince looks at the ingredients for an environmental row

Rosa Prince looks at the ingredients for an environmental row. Conservation groups including the National Trust and English Nature say over-picking is harming rare mushrooms and the woodland animals who live off them.
But London restaurateurs deny the use of mushrooms such as penny buns, slipperyjacks, horns of plenty, and giant puff balls is damaging.Antonio Carluccio owns the Neal Street Restaurant in Covent Garden which uses mushrooms in 30-40 per cent of its dishes. England and Wales have already had most of the entire average rainfall for January, with little more than a quarter of the month having passed. The river Severn and its tributary, the Vyrnwy, are threatening to burst their banks and thousands of homes in Gloucester have been placed on red alert. Local council workers have been issuing sandbags to homes in vulnerable areas.
At Sandhurst in Gloucestershire two men who became stranded used a mobile phone to call emergency services after taking refuge on the roof of their car.

The mildest January day for decades saw temperatures reach almost 15 C (59F) at several recording stations as warm winds blew from the South-west. However, it is also our intention to be innovative in the way we use sponsorship and make it interactive with the programme.”. After storm, flood and tornado, Britain experienced record-breaking warmth yesterday. Given his track record we contacted Virgin to show them the rules”.John Pearson, Virgin Radio managing director, said: “It is our intention to stay within the guidelines. Mr Lloyd believes the concern with Chris Evans is that his style of broadcasting takes in everything happening to him and all that surrounds him: “Chris Evans is known for testing the boundaries.

“The dangerous thing is if mentions of a product become endorsement by being gratuitous rather than of editorial merit.”The authority has already rejected one complaint from a listener and is investigating another. The other main sponsor of the show is the Czech beer Pilsner Urquell. Again, the breakfast show “zoo” – Evans’ on-air radio team – hooted when one of them said she had never drunk the beer and Evans said she had been told off for her lack of support.”This is a matter that has been discussed and we will monitor the station,” says David Lloyd, the Radio Authority’s head of programming and advertising. The two have been seen and photographed out on the town together, including at a reception at Downing Street.