From Yahoo!’s news page:

Celebrity TV chef Jamie Oliver has delivered a petition to Downing Street calling for better food standards in schools.His Feed Me Better internet petition has been signed by 271,677 people. It comes as Education Secretary Ruth Kelly prepares to unveil a ?280 million funding package to improve the quality of school meals.

But the Government says the timing is a pure co-incidence.

Yeah right!

There’s a top rated program on TV showing the country how bad school dinners are which is pointing out that we spend 37 pence per child on the food and that it’s all reconstituted rubbish. Then all of sudden the Government announced more funding for school dinners in particular and there’s an election next month…

Good for you Jamie for making the politicians notice.