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GBP3bn bid for Safeway
NATIONAL: Supermarket group Morrisons is holding talks withtakeover target Safeway as it put the finishing touches to a new GBP3billion bid for the chain. …
Earthworms excel at school thanks to mid-scale vermicomposting
In the preface to her new book, The Worm Cafe, teacher-author Binet Payne writes that she learned about the benefits of composting from her grandmother who was born in 1897. She also credits Mary Appelhof, who wrote Worms Eat My Garbage and launched Flowerfield Enterprises in the early 1980s. Payne used the knowledge she acquired from these two and others when teaching earthworm science to 6th, 7th and 8th grade students. Her schoolroom experiences in Laytonville, California led to The Worm Cafe.
"Schools top the list of sources for discarded paper and food waste," Payne explains. "Mid-scale vermicomposting provides a simple, effective, and inexpensive method for processing paper …

