People think this job is easy, but it's hard, I tell you, damned hard. My mission this week: to spend an entire day queuing for, and then eating, burgers. Like Morgan Spurlock in a hurry, I will be attempting my own Vine-length version of Super Size Me.

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Jamie Oliver’s restaurant chain Jamie’s Italian was judged to have the healthiest children’s menu

High-street restaurant chains fail health test for hungry youngsters

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Jay-Z owns Wireless festival

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Picture taken from Twitter with permission of George Osborne showing him eating a burger and chips as he put the 'finishing touches' to the spending review

Osborne defends his 'posh' Byron burger Twitter picture saying 'McDonald's don't deliver'

Mr Osborne tweeted a picture of himself eating the burger, from upmarket chain Byron

The 10 Best burgers

It may not be a barbecue summer as yet - but who needs an excuse to tuck into a juicy patty? Try one of these for size.

Horse meat

Horsemeat scandal documentary goes behind-the-scenes at Iceland supermarket

A new documentary series goes behind-the-scenes at frozen food giant Iceland as it deals with the fall-out from the horsemeat scandal.

DNA tests were carried out on a batch of frozen burgers manufactured by Doncaster-based Paragon Quality Foods Limited

Pork found in Halal lamb burgers supplied to Leicester schools

Halal lamb burgers have been withdrawn from a city's schools after tests revealed a sample contained pork.

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Will Storr is a novelist and an award winning longform journalist, who will also be at this year's Latitude.

This burger is 14 years old

14 years after it was made the 'World's oldest hamburger' looks like it hasn't aged a day...

There appeared to be no evidence of fungus, mould or rotten meat on the hamburger from 1999

Safety 'jobsworths' exposed as 150 false rules revealed

Bubbles banned from a child’s birthday party and toothpicks removed from a restaurant are among a list of health and safety ruses exposed in the past year.

Shopping: Smaller sizes and higher prices? What’s new!

A report from Which? published this week revealed that crafty manufacturers are shrinking packet sizes.

Call me a masochist, but if I’m going for a Baconator (a quarter-pound beef patty with mayo, ketchup and six [6!] strips of bacon), then it’s unlikely that I’ll be confusing the meal with dinner at the table of the Marchioness of Marchmain

Burger joint Wendy's goes down-home to offer diners a nice little Baconator® by the fire

Call me a masochist, but if I’m going for a Baconator (a quarter-pound beef patty with mayo, ketchup and six [6!] strips of bacon), then it’s unlikely that I’ll be confusing the meal with dinner at the table of the Marchioness of Marchmain.

Morrissey will stage a vegetarian gig in LA

'Meat Is Murder' singer Morrissey succeeds in turning LA's Staples Centre vegetarian

Singer Morrissey is to stage a totally vegetarian gig when he resumes his tour after a bout of illness which prompted him to pull a number of US shows.

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