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You could get paid £250 to test supermarket meal deals

The team at UniHomes is currently on the hunt for their ultimate meal deal tester - could it be you?

Georgina Pellant Georgina Pellant - 7th March 2022

Love a meal deal? Offended that Tesco has just put its prices up? Now is your chance to have your say.

A UK company is looking for Manchester students to test out meal deals from leading supermarkets, and those taking part will be paid handsomely for the privilege.

The team at UniHomes is currently on the hunt for their ultimate meal deal tester, with applications open now.

The successful critic will be required to sample the meal deals from Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Co-op, Morrisons, Asda, Waitrose, and Boots before ultimately crowning a winner.

Factors such as value for money, variety, taste, and the quality of the product will all need to be taken into account before picking the ultimate meal deal.

The company will pay for all your scran (that’s seven meal deals for free), as well as then adding another £250 on top for your trouble.

If you have strong opinions on sandwich and crisp combos, or the best drink choices, this might just be the perfect gig for you.

Read more: Tesco announces ‘game-changing’ addition to its meal deal – but the price has jumped

It’s very much a hot topic right now after fans of the Tesco meal deal had a rollercoaster week last week, as the supermarket announced some big changes to its lunchtime offering.

The supermarket confirmed last week that the cost of its meal deal had jumped to £3.50, but those with a Clubcard can still get the deal for the original price of £3.

Shoppers were horrified, with people labelling the price hike ‘horrific’ and ‘a disgrace’ – but Tesco has since clawed it back (with some customers, anyway) by adding a hot Costa drink as a new beverage choice on the deal.

Score or scandal? You really can now have your say with this role.

To apply all you have to do is fill out a form on the UniHomes website and tell them why you would make the perfect meal deal connoisseur.

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Spanish journalist rubbishes reports of Barcelona debating ending Marcus Rashford’s loan deal early

Danny Jones Danny Jones

Spanish journalist Guillem Balagué has come out to rubbish reports that FC Barcelona have been considering ending Marcus Rashford’s loan deal early.

The well-known football reporter, who regularly works with the likes of Sky Sports, CBS Sports, BBC and more, is one of many to have publicly decried false claims made about the Manchester United loanee, who joined the La Liga giants at the start of this summer.

Barca themselves are also said to have quashed the rumours, with Balagué’s quotes having now been widely circulated online.

Speaking via X over the weekend, the 56-year-old put it simply: that the rumblings are nonsense, reassuring that the club have plenty of faith in his abilities.

As you can see, the Catalan-born RCD Espanyol fan also chose to publicly align himself with former England footballer, Gary Lineker, who has suggested that a targeted and discriminatory narrative against Rashford has developed in recent years.

Though he didn’t state it verbatim, Balagué added: “No more to say, apart from the fact I agree with Gary Lineker and his treatment by some media.”

In case you were unaware of what he’s precisely referring to, Lineker said in a chat with the Man United forward on his The Rest Is Football podcast that he believes Rashford “wouldn’t face the same criticism if he was white.”

Having also made the move from Britain to Barcelona back in 1986 (spending a total of three seasons there), the 64-year-old knows plenty about adjusting from playing in one country to another.

You can see the interview in full here.

The interview was conducted shortly after Rashford’s loan deal was completed, and he had plenty to say about his boyhood team.

Responding to Balagué’s social media post, one commenter wrote: “This nonsense is coming from racist journalists in England who refuse to leave [Rashford] alone. They bullied him when he was in England, especially during times when he seemed unhappy.

“Now, these haters have followed him to Barcelona. Rashford is one of the kindest players in the world, but these clowns just won’t let him live his life in peace.”

It is worth noting, however, that the original reports in question and ultimately aggregated by media across Europe and here in the UK come from a domestic outlet, El Nacional.

While he is yet to rediscover the form of his peak years in United red at the Camp Nou, he is now entering what are traditionally seen as the ‘prime’ period in a footballer’s career and did show more positive signs on loan at Aston Villa during the second half of the previous campaign.

At 27, there is still plenty of time to turn things around; that being said, after being brought back into the national team and with his parent club holding an option to buy clause for around a reported £20 million, the question remains whether he will be returning to Old Trafford at the end of the term. Speaking of…

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How Greater Manchester ranks as NHS ‘league tables’ are published for first time ever

Emily Sergeant Emily Sergeant

A ‘pioneering’ new system of league tables revealing the best and worst performing NHS Trusts has been published for the first time ever.

This marks a new era of ‘transparency’ and ‘accountability’ in the NHS, with the league tables delivering on the Government’s promise to drive up standards, tackle variation in care, and ensure people get the high-quality service they rightly expect.

Every trust in England – from urgent and emergency care, through to elective operations and mental health services – will be ranked quarterly against ‘clear and consistent’ standards.

“This is not just about data, it’s about delivery,” the Government says.

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) figures reveal that four out of five of England’s 134 ‘acute’ hospital trusts are considered to be failing.

Among the best-performing hospitals in the country was Manchester’s specialist Cancer hospital, The Christie, which was actually ranked in an impressive third place, while across Greater Manchester as a region, the highest ranked trusts were Tameside and Bolton, which came in 58 and 59 respectively on the list.

Manchester University Foundation Trust, in the heart of the city centre, came in 71st place.

The rest of the region’s trusts all came in the bottom half of the rankings – with Stockport at 86, Wigan at 92, and finally the Northern Care Alliance at 116.

Patient in a hospital bed
NHS ‘league tables’ ranking every trust have been published for first time ever / Credit: Stephen Andrews (via Unsplash)

Sadly, it was revealed that more than half of the 20 worst general hospitals are in the north of England, but it is London that dominates the top half of the table.

“These league tables will identify where urgent support is needed and allow high-performing areas to share best practises with others, taking the best of the NHS to the rest of the NHS,” explained Heath Secretary, Wes Streeting.

“We must be honest about the state of the NHS to fix it.

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“Patients and taxpayers have to know how their local NHS services are doing compared to the rest of the country.”

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