The creators of the award-winning North Leeds Food Festival, The Riverside Food and Drink Festival will stage their first event in the town on August 6 and 7.
Returning to Harrogate for its second year after the successful 2021 festival, The Harrogate Food and Drink Festival will be celebrating internationally inspired cuisine and drink, with performers and musicians providing the backdrop to a feast on The Stray.
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By Roger Harrabin
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak is being urged to use the Budget to change the financial system to better protect the environment.
One group wants him to impose a carbon tax and use the proceeds to protect the poor from high energy bills.
A second petition is calling for Bank of England rules to encourage banks not to invest in fossil fuels.
Mr Sunak is expected anyway to update the Bank’s mandate to include a greater focus on climate.
But campaigners want the new wording to stop the Bank from supporting fossil fuel firms through schemes such as its £20bn corporate bond purchase programme, which involves buying debt issued by firms such as Shell and BP.
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Campaigners have called on Rishi Sunak to use the upcoming Budget to stop banks from funding fossil fuels (REUTERS)
Campaigners have called on the chancellor Rishi Sunak to use the upcoming Budget to stop banks from funding the use of fossil fuels.
The call comes as a
petition signed by nearly 65,000 members of the public urges the Bank of England to “cut off the money pipeline” for fossil fuel projects.
Mr Sunak is expected to make updates to the Bank of England’s mandate to include a greater focus on measures to tackle the climate crisis as part of announcements due next week.