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"The application is a genuine attempt to protect the consumer and encourage investment in local economies."

 

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CPA members make about 87 million pasties a year, in a growing market.

 

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The 60 million pounds of sales represent about 6 percent of the Cornish food economy, it said.

 

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Many ingredients are sourced locally and it is estimated 13,000 people are directly or indirectly benefiting from CPA trade, it added.

 

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A spokesman for Defra said the application meets all the criteria for a protected food name.

 

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It now goes in front of an appeal process before being considered by the European Commission.

 

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Any trademark would cover the Cornish pasty's traditional recipe and appearance. A genuine Cornish pasty has a distinctive D shape with the pastry crimped on one side, never on top.

 

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It is filled with minced or roughly cut chunks of beef, swede or turnip, potato and onion

 

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"We believe it is not unreasonable to ask companies to honestly label their products so that the consumer is guaranteed a level of quality, recipe and origin when they purchase them," the CPA said.

 

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Reuters: Oddly Enough

Teen girl's bank
robbing days over ​

 

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Fri Jul 25, 1:16 PM ET

CRETEIL, France (Reuters)

 

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(Reporting by Joseph Tandy,

 

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editing by Estelle Shirbon

 

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and Sami Aboudi)

 

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A 16-year-old French girl suspected of holding up seven banks was formally charged with armed robbery on Friday, a prosecutor said.

 

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The teen was arrested on Wednesday as she was fleeing the scene of an armed robbery at an HSBC bank branch in the suburb of Maisons-Alfort, south-east of Paris.

 

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Investigators believe the girl played a crucial role in six previous bank robberies since the beginning of July, threatening staff with a gun to force them to open security doors to let in two or three masked accomplices.

 

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The hold-up gang made off with hundreds of thousands of euros after spraying tear gas into the banks to cover their escape.

 

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The teen robber had no previous criminal record and her family was not known to police.

 

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Reuters: Oddly Enough

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