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Ikea’s vegan
meatballs –
made of oats
IKEA will launch a vegan version of its
popular meatballs at its British stores
this summer.
The Swedish flat-pack furniture giant is
following in the steps of Greggs and KFC
by introducing vegan products which
reportedly look and taste like meat.
The company already sells 150million
meatball meals worldwide every year.
It launched a vegetarian option five years
ago but will sell a plant-based alternative
from August. They will be made from pea
protein, oats, apples and potatoes.
Ikea says the plant-based balls have a
climate footprint which is 96 per cent
lower than its pork-and-beef ones.
They will be available in all of Ikea’s UK
in-store cafes and sold in freezer packs for
customers to take home.
It comes after Ikea impressed custom-
ers with its vegan hot dog in 2018.
Michael La Cour, managing director of
Ikea food services, said: ‘We see a growing
demand from our customers to have
access to more sustainable food options
and we want to meet that need.
‘Our ambition is to make healthier and
more sustainable eating easy, desirable
and affordable without compromising on
taste and texture.’
Ikea said its carbon emissions were
down by 4.3 per cent last year despite
sales increasing 6.5 per cent.IT wasn’t enough
just to win a string
of Golden Globes,
Emmys and a multi-
million pound deal
with Amazon.
N o w F l e a b a g
creator Phoebe
Waller-Bridge is
set to sweep up in
the theatre world
too – as the stage version of her hit BBC
comedy is up for two Olivier Awards.
The one-woman show, which had a run
at Wyndham’s Theatre in London last
year, is nominated for Best Entertain-
ment or Comedy Play – while the British
star, 34, is also up for Best Actress.
Miss Waller-Bridge, pictured, will go up
against Hayley Atwell, who starred in
Rosmersholm, Sharon D Clarke for Death
Of A Salesman and Juliet Stevenson for
The Doctor at the ceremony in April.
The Fleabag star won Emmys for Best
Actress and Outstanding Series earlier
this year, as well as two Golden Globes,
Critics’ Choice awards and a Screen
Actors Guild award. She signed a three-
year deal, reportedly worth £16million,
to produce new TV shows for Amazon.Snickers’ Welsh
tweet was nuts
ThE makers of chocolate favourite Snick-
ers apologised yesterday – after being less
than sweet towards the Welsh language.
Social media staff behind the peanut
bar’s Twitter account started a thread of
Welsh place names, claiming that they
looked like ‘someone sat on a keyboard’.
They went on to use ‘Llanfairpwllgwyn-
gyll’ and others as examples.
But the tweet from Snickers, which is
made by Mars, was swiftly slammed by
Welsh speakers who said the remarks
were ‘bigoted’ and ‘racist’.
One Twitter user wrote: ‘Ignorantly
making fun of stereotypes and caricatures
of minoritised languages is the lowest of
the low, playground-level, gutter-style
content marketing and should have no
place in the modern, post-colonial era.’
Now the firm has been forced to apolo-
gise – and used its ‘you’re not you when
you’re hungry’ tagline to say sorry.
It said: ‘From everyone at Snickers UK
we’re sorry to everyone offended by our
last tweet, we totally misjudged it...’Now TV Phoebe
heads to Oliviers
A WEALThY financial consultant
accused of murdering her four-
week old daughter with her lover
told police: ‘My God, I’m such a
bad mother’, a court heard.
City worker Clare Sanders, 43, and
Tomas Vaitkevicius, 45, allegedly
shook their baby Eva on three sepa-
rate occasions during the first weeks
of her young life.
Sanders’ mobile phone had been used
to search ‘shaken baby syndrome NhS’,
‘shaking babies’ and ‘baby is shaking’ six
days before Eva’s death.
Jurors heard the transcript of Sanders’
police interview, recorded hours before
Eva died, in which the £90,000-a-year
consultant admitted finishing a bottle of
‘a liqueur thing’ the previous night.
Shortly before 2.40am on September 1,
2017, an emergency call was made to the
London Ambulance Service by neighbour
Karen Brewell, who lived in the same
block of flats in Mitcham, south London.
Eva was rushed to a hospital in south
London as paramedics tried to treat her.
But she was pronounced dead shortly
before 7am on September 2, 2017, and a
post-mortem examination later gave the
cause of death as ‘traumatic brain and‘My God...
I’m such a
bad mother’
What £90k city worker accused of
shaking baby to death ‘told police’
Daily Mail Reporter
spinal cord injury’.
Claire harden-Frost, prosecut-
ing at the Old Bailey yesterday,
read out Sanders’ police inter-
view from the previous evening.
Sanders said in it: ‘It’s all my
fault for not keeping an eye on
her. Tom (Vaitkevicius) had
already had a couple of beers.
We had some of that, like,
liqueur thing. I washed up the
glass, so we’d finished it.’
An interviewing officer asked
her: ‘had you opened it before
the feed?’ Sanders replied: ‘No,
I don’t think so. Oh my God, are
we negligent?’
The officer asks: ‘So, you wrote
down that Tom had done thefeed but you can’t remember
whether you saw him?’ Sanders
responds: ‘Oh my God, oh God
it’s all my fault.’
The interview turned to the
moment Sanders called the
neighbours for help. The motherwas in the ambulance with Eva.
Sanders replied: ‘At the house.
Why was he at the house? Why
didn’t he come in the ambu-
lance? Oh my God, was it my
fault what happened to her? My
God, I’m such a bad mother.’
She also gave her account of
discovering her ‘grey and life-
less’ baby.
She told police: ‘She was in
the pram over by the window. I
picked her up and that’s when
the milk goes out. I should have,
I should have been keeping an
eye on her. She was lying on her
back. I lifted her to my face.
‘The milk came out. It was agush. I screamed. Was it milk,
was it blood? I don’t know. I
thought it was milk. I screamed
and passed her to Tom, Tom
came in. I just said she’s not
breathing.’ The officer asked
her: ‘how did you know she was
not breathing?’
Sanders replied: ‘I don’t know,
she was grey and lifeless. have I
just imagined all of that? I was
just in a state of panic. I can’t
really recall it for you.’
Sanders and Vaitkevicius both
deny murder and an alternative
count of causing or allowing the
death of a vulnerable child. The
trial continues.‘What have I
done to my child?Renzo Vitale, won an Academy Award for
his score for The Lion King.
He also wrote the music to Gladiator,
Pirates of the Caribbean, and worked on
the forthcoming 007 film No Time To Die.
Mr Zimmer launched his electric-drive
soundtrack for the i4 yesterday and the
sounds will be introduced as a standard
feature worldwide from July. The i4 is set
to go into production next year as BMW’sfirst all-electric premium mid-size car. Mr
Zimmer said: ‘We have an extraordinary
opportunity to turn electric driving in a
BMW into a very special experience with
the help of great sounds.’
A company spokesman said: ‘It will imbue
BMW’s electric models with extra emo-
tional depth by connecting the driver with
the vehicle’s character on another level
through individual tones and sounds.’BMW has launched a new electric car that
features a ‘soundtrack’ by award-winning
movie composer Hans Zimmer.
The sounds are to address concerns that
the near-silent running of battery-pow-
ered vehicles makes driving feel soulless.
The German company’s BMW i4 electric
prototype is designed to take on Elon
Musk’s Tesla Model 3.
It has recruited Mr Zimmer to create a
suite of sounds for the vehicle, including
start-up noises, acceleration tones and
acoustic accompaniments to a door open-
ing. The film composer, who designed the
tones alongside BMW’s sound engineerBy Ray Massey
Motoring EditorDenials: Financial consultant Sanders at the Old Bailey, and inset, lover Vaitkevicius
BMW that’s so quiet it
needs its own soundtrack
said: ‘I went to the neighbours
and I called them. I just said she
wasn’t breathing. What have I
done to my child?’
She was asked where Lithua-
nian Vaitkevicius was while she