EGGSELLENT news - Wirral is going battery hen free.
From now on, battery hen eggs will be banned from the borough's schools, care homes and canteens.
It'll cost taxpayers £5,000 between them - but it means children and old people will be eating a "cruelty-free" food.
The move is being hailed as a victory for TV chefs Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, whose Big Food Fight series on Channel 4 highlighted the issue last week.
But the Globe can reveal that it is actually the result of remarkably successful campaigning by pressure group Compassion in World Farming.
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