Staff at Liverpool restaurant prepare free school meals

The Watering Can, in Greenbank Park, Liverpool, is providing free school mealsfor children over the half term holidays.

Local councils and businesses arecontinuing to pledge free food for children in need during this week's halfterm break after the Government defeated a Labour motion to extend free schoolmeals provision in England over the holidays.

Thousands of free meals will beprovided to children by businesses, local authorities and community groups onthe first day of half term as ministers face a damaging grassroots Tory revoltover the issue.