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Our seas are changing - and it's no coincidence that the offerings of shops and restaurants in Canary Wharf are too.

Last week, The End Of The Line, a hard-hitting film about the catastrophe facing our waters due to overfishing, was released in cinemas.

Is pasta salad, pasta or salad? Only one of the three dishes we sampled called itself a
salad. The other two stress the pasta.

But then again, the other two in our taste test don’t exactly pile on the fresh, unadulterated offspring of Mother Earth.

It’s been a bad week for plastic bags.

Marks & Spencer has announced that as of May 6 it’s going to charge five pence for every plastic bag customers need to carry food purchases. Now five pence isn’t going to break the bank, but it will be interesting to see if consumers are prepared to cough up or whether some will see this as a moral crusade too far.

M&S reckons it hands out 394million bags for food every year – which is a lot of unused carriers stuffed under the sink.