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Fast food UK

More than a quarter of England’s food outlets are fast food shops – with some of the heaviest concentrations found in England’s most deprived neighbourhoods. As part of the Guardian's Inequality Project, this series examines the impact of the rapid growth of fast food outlets on people's health.

1 December 2017

  • Middle Street primary school pupils.

    Fast food nation: do more takeaways near schools affect younger pupils' diets?

  • A row of takeaways in London.

    Children in poor areas exposed to five times as many fast food takeaways

4 August 2017

  • BLACKBURN, 26 July 2017 - Eastern Spice curry, kebab and pizza takeaway restaurant in Blackburn, Lancashire, which has the highest number takeaways per person in the country. Christopher Thomond for The Guardian.

    'Life-crushingly unacceptable': views on our love-hate relationship with fast food

    Our recent coverage of the prevalence of fast food in England provoked some fascinating responses from readers and contributors alike

30 July 2017

  • Barbara Ellen

    Let’s call fast food by its real name – cheap food

    Barbara Ellen
    Its purchasers aren’t feckless, they are simply pressed for time and money

28 July 2017

  • Takeaways restaurants in Blackburn, Lancashire, which has the highest concentration of fast food outlets in Britain.

    Let them eat chicken ’n’ chips? Poor food and hunger in 21st-century Britain

  • Bank Top in Blackburn offers an array of fast food outlets.

    'Chips and a burger for a quid' – welcome to the takeaway capital of England

26 July 2017

  • Faiza Shaheen

    Is it just fast food – or is it social breakdown on a plate?

    Faiza Shaheen
    Takeaway outlets are proliferating and life expectancy has stalled. Are these portents of a coming societal shift, asks Faiza Shaheen, the director of the Centre of Labour and Social Studies

25 July 2017

  • Close-up of a burger.

    Survey: are you worried about the food options available in your area?

  • Roziur Choudhury outside Grillzone, in the east London suburb of Dagenham.

    Fast food England: does putting a cap on takeaways improve people's health?

  • Barking and Dagenham in east London was the first UK council to introduce a fast food cap, in 2010.

    Large rise in takeaway shops highlights dominance of fast food in deprived areas

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    Fast food England: how many takeaways are near you?

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