Last month the final trial of a four-year series of experiments found that GM

Last month, the final trial of a four-year series of experiments found that GM crops can be harmful to wildlife because the ultra-powerful weedkillers that the crops are engineered to tolerate would bring about further damage to a countryside already suffering from intensive farming.2005: Sudan 1Hundreds of common food products were recalled in February after they were found to contain banned food colouring Sudan 1, which has been linked to cancer in rats in lab tests.. The bug is linked to contamination at slaughterhouses and in butchers shops, undercooking and poor hygiene during food preparation.Ongoing: Genetically Modified FoodAmid public concern over “Frankenstein foods”, some scientists fear GM crops and animals could cross-breed with wild species and damage ecosystems. The food seems deliberately dumbed-down to appeal to a wider audience, and I am not convinced of the quality of some of the raw produce or by the skills of the kitchen. But why do the owners feel they have to do modern, anonymous bar food, when we are crying out for great Moroccan dishes in a fun, relaxed setting? We need fragrant, slow-cooked tagines steaming under their conical lids, fiery harissa, and m’choui of spiced, spit-roasted lamb more than we need “sesame and herb-crusted goat cheese and rocket salad with roasted walnuts with maple syrup and argan oil dressing”. In other words, we need Moro and Momo more than we need Occo.10 Occo 58 Crawford Street, London W1, tel: 020 7724 4991 Lunch and dinner are served daily.

Around £80 for dinner for two including wine and serviceScores 1-9 stay home and cook 10-11 needs help 12 ok 13 pleasant enough 14 good 15 very good 16 capable of greatness 17 special, can’t wait to go back 18 highly honourable 19 unique and memorable 20 as good as it getsSecond helpings: Other tastes of north AfricaAl Fassia 27 St Leonard’s Road, Windsor, tel: 01753 855 370 Outside London, Moroccan restaurants are thin on the ground, so the residents of Windsor are better served than most with this extremely popular family-run restaurant (bookings are a must). It looks like the real deal with its wall hangings and tiled tables, and the food runs to all the usual Moroccan faves, from tagines and couscous to skewers.Sami’s 49 Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton, Leeds, tel: 0113 262 1676 Cheap, cheerful, and buzzy, Sami’s does the whole themed thing with hookah pipes and cushions. Favoured dishes include chicken tagine with preserved orange and saffron rice, and couscous with marinated, spiced lamb, but the food is more than Moroccan, running around North Africa and the Middle East with Syrian fattoush salads and Tunisian pastry briks.Momo 25-27 Heddon Street, London W1, tel: 020 7434 4040 Momo is a nonstop come-into-my-Casbah party, with its rustic artefacts, wooden screens, bordello lighting, laid-back lounges and pulsating, rhythmic music from owner Mourad Mazouz’s “Arabesque” compilations. It seems to be a return to form quality-wise.And bang goes my style-over-substance Alfa theory, I thought to myself, until the very next day I learned that the CLS was included in the 1.3 million cars that have just been recalled.

Looking at the car side-on, you would imagine the severely sloping back would mean that the two rear passengers (there is no middle seat) would have to sit with their necks permanently cricked like puzzled Labradors, but in fact there is an abundance of head and leg room for all.Having complained for years about glossy, plastic-effect walnut trim, I have to admit that the CLS’s matt-finish wood is a bit “G Plan” for my taste, but otherwise the oxblood-red leather interior is plush and womblike. Happily someone has finally realised that ruched leather door panels are a bit too Guildford even for a big Benz, but unfortunately missed the equally offensive half-wood, half-leather steering wheel. This has a 306bhp, 5-litre V8, with a seven-speed automatic gearbox and (for around ten grand) every conceivable extra, from massage seats to an adjustable parking radar (something I have never seen fitted to a car but here, presumably, so that those who like to live life on the edge can have it bleep at them that thrilling femtosecond prior to impact). And this is because Alfa Romeos are really, really sexy.The Mercedes-Benz CLS is also properly sexy, a luscious saloon in wolf’s clothing. In fact, everyone seems to agree it could quite easily claim a place for itself among the top ten most gorgeous cars ever made. The brand managers in Stuttgart can’t have failed to notice that no matter how crappily built Alfa Romeos are (and, despite recent improvements, they are still a league behind the likes of Honda or Audi), no matter how ditzy their electronics, how fragile their interiors or how highly strung their engines, people still buy them. It looks just like those vague, expressionistic, three-line sketches that car stylists dash off with misguided optimism at the beginning of the design process, except the CLS has leapt straight from the back of a beer mat into sensual, sensational reality.

I spent ages staring out of my window at the glassy, obsidian, black example I borrowed last week. And when I wasn’t staring at it from afar, I was walking round it, drooling like a randy Doberman, dumbfounded by its seductive magnetism.There is also, of course, a rocket-ship AMG version available (I would imagine most of the UK’s allocation is already heading for the car parks of Premiership football clubs) but I tried the marginally more sensible CLS 500 version. I was in tears because this was something I’d wished for and dreamed of for so long.”My whole state of mind has changed,” she continued. “I’m happy, outgoing and have thrown away all my baggy clothes. Instead, I wear short skirts, clingy dresses and tight trousers. At last, I no longer feel the need to make myself look invisible – and it feels fantastic.”The cosmetic surgery hitlistBunionectomies, toe- shortening and collagen implants help feet fit shoes and look better in high heelsLip enhancement using injections or implants – usually collagenEyebag removal surgery (blepharoplasty) and nose surgery (rhinoplasty)Tummy tuck surgery (abdominoplasty) to remove excess skin and fat from the abdominal area.

SPECIFICATIONS Price on the road £63,665 (as tested) Maximum speed 155mph (0-62mph in 6.1 seconds) Combined fuel consumption 25mpg For more information 0800 181 361

SPECIFICATIONS Price on the road £63,665 (as tested) Maximum speed 155mph (0-62mph in 6.1 seconds) Combined fuel consumption 25mpg For more information 0800 181 361
With its reputation for unimpeachable quality catastrophically undermined by the wonky, Alabama-built M-Classes, A-Classes that turned turtle, that whole Smart misadventure and, most recently, the largest recall in the history of the company (1.3 million vehicles), Mercedes has decided to “do an Alfa”. It was high, pert and perfect – the shape I’d always dreamed of having Better than that, it looked and felt so natural. I wear size eight jeans, but whereas before my buttocks looked totally flat, now they look excellent,” she said. “Different people have said how great they look in trousers; it’s definitely a Kylie bum now.”Mary, a 32-year old from London, underwent surgical enhancement four months ago. “My sister and all my friends had fuller, more curvy buttocks, and it had played on my mind for a long time,” she said “Now I feel really happy with what I’ve got My bum looks bigger, more pert and more sexy. The operation cost £5,800, but it was definitely money well spent.”Additional reporting by Roger Dobson’My new bottom was incredible – it was high, pert and perfect’Sharon Brown hated what she described as her ‘flat outline’ so much that she paid £4,800 to have buttock augmentation surgery.