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More than 4,000 casual staff, 146 managers and 170 chefs, led by Steve Golding, will prepare up to 11,500 hospitality covers per day at Royal Ascot this year, working from 36 satellite kitchens.
At Royal Ascot 2006, the following quantities were consumed:185,000 bottles of Champagne
176,000 pints of beer
15,000 bottles of wine
11,000 lobsters
4.5 tonnes of beef
100,000 scones58,050 people used our hospitality facilities at Royal Ascot in 2006.
This was made up from the following:Hospitality Packages had 21,500 covers
Clubs including Whites, Turf and the Royal Ascot Racing Club had 3,910 covers
Private Dining facilities had 1,870 covers
Our seven main restaurants serviced 12,650 covers
Boxes contained 18,120 covers
Afghan deportees continue to flow into Afghanistan. Since 21 April nearly 100,000 deportees have entered the country. The United Nations has launched a joint CERF Appeal of US$5.9 million to cover the needs of deportee families for an initial period of three months (June to August 2007).
As a part of this appeal, WFP has requested US$1.5 million to cover food needs of about 20,000 people so far, with an average of 80 new families expected each day in the coming months.
Meanwhile, WFP continues to provide an emergency food relief to deportee families in Farah province and in the transit centre in Herat with its stocks available in the country.
WFP has also planned to provide cooked food for two days to an average of 50 deportees entering through Islam Qala.
Support during insecurity
WFP met with local authorities including the Governor and district members of parliament in Ghazni province to request their support for moving to targeted districts the 860mt of food held up for the last three weeks in Ghazni centre because of insecurity.
UK mission in Afghanistan to last decades, says ambassador
Richard Norton-Taylor
Thursday June 21, 2007
The GuardianA British presence in Afghanistan will continue for decades, the UK’s new ambassador to Kabul warned yesterday, adding that it would take that long to establish a sustainable government in the country.
“We are going to win this, but it’s going to take time,” said Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles. “It’s not a three year sprint, it’s a 30 year marathon – we should be thinking in terms of decades.”
Still, it’s nice to know that despite the suffering of civilians and troops in the forever wars of Iraq & Afghanistan, that the rich are still having fun.
