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16th July is national cherry day Did you know that just 10 cherries can make up one of your five a day? They are nutritious and help fight disease and other illnesses, helping you to sleep, serving as a kind of pain-relieving aspirin and fighting against ageing, this is one super-cherry! So check out our Tweets and Facebook page this week for recipes with this super fruit! Read more about national cherry day here   Hygiene inspectors fail Marcus Wareing at Berkeley for 'fly infestation' and E. coli risk The chef, who runs a restaurant at London’s five-star Berkeley Hotel, was criticised over the presence of fruit flies, warned of E.coli risks and told to buy a new vacuum-packing machine. Read more from Mail Online   Footballer Jamie Carragher set to open Liverpool brasserie Former Liverpool footballer Jamie Carragher is set to launch a new brasserie in shopping centre Liverpool One. The new 200-seat venue will be called Moments, and is being launched in a joint venture with City Life Project. Read more from Caterer and Hotelkeeper   Restaurant owner dodges confrontation by laying off staff with impersonal text message The owner of a Barducci's Italian restaurant in Winter Park, Florida let all of his employees know by  text message that the restaurant had closed and they were out of the job. Read more from Mail Online
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Editor 15th July 2013

Daily news round up: our selection of food and chef news from the world's press