Sainsbury's opens doors on "bee hotels"

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Supermarket chain warns protecting bee population will prove essential to UK farming supply chain

The race to be seen as the UK's greenest supermarket took a somewhat bizarre twist last week when Sainsbury's announced that it is to set up a network of " bee hotels" across London to help reverse the...

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