By Crable, Ad FT. INDIANTOWN GAP - It is indeed an irony of the natural world that the largest colony of the beautiful regal fritillary butterfly east of the Mississippi is on a military reservation where the earth is blasted asunder, churned up and burned over.

By Rupert Steiner IT MIGHT make exceedingly good cakes, but Premier Foods, the company behind the Mr Kipling brand and Hovis bread is the latest food manufacturer to produce a half baked set of results.

By Sally Williams It's one of the most familiar sayings heard over the dinner table in any Welsh family home - "Make sure you eat your crusts".

By BILL CONDIE HARD on the heels of big rises in the price of Kingsmill and Hovis bread in the UK, global wheat prices today soared to new records.

Kingsmill owner Associated British Foods yesterday became the latest baking concern to warn of a further rise in the price of its bread. The company, which also makes Ryvita, Allinson and Burgen, said the new hike was needed to recover "recent sharp increases" in the cost of flour.