Bletchley becomes the first town in Europe to receive free beef from the EEC food surplus.

Surplus beef is delivered to Bletchley Day Centre from an EEC intervention store in Northampton. After an emphasis on mass producing cheap but not necessarily high-quality food in Europe, a combination of lower than predicted population growth and changing consumer demands in the 1980s led to 'food mountains': large quantities of surplus food.

MP Michael Jopling explains to reporter Peter Lugg that this scheme to distribute surplus beef was devised only two weeks ago, and that he is impressed with how charities have been able to respond to the decision. Beef will be cooked for pensioners at the Day Centre and sent out by Meals on Wheels. June Coleridge from the British Red Cross says that the food will help elderly people who may struggle over winter.

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