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

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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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