NeverSeconds is a blog created and run by 9 year old Scottish school girl Martha Payne, which logs her thoughts and experiences of eatting school lunches at Lochgilphead Primary School.
Launched on 30 April 2012 as a school project, the blog is written much like a restuarant review, with daily entries on the school meal that Payne has choosen that day, her thoughts on the food and its quality, and finaly marks out of 10.
The blog hit local and then nationl headlines, gaining 2.5million hits by the end of June 2012. The resultant traffic generated revenue, with Payne deciding to donate the money to the charity Mary's Meals. Origially setting a target of £7,000, by early June 2012 the total had hit over £16,000.
On 14th June, Payne was removed from her Maths class, taken to the headmasters office, and told that she could no longer take photographs of her food inside the dining hall. The decision had come down from Argyll and Bute Council, who had become cautious of negative press reaction and the affect it was having on school meals staff. Of particular concern was an article in the Daily Record newspaper, which had published a photograph of Payne alongside chef Nick Nairn under the headline "Time to fire the dinner ladies".
However, on 15th June, following a storm of protest on the internet and the intervention of local Scottish National Party MSP Mike Russell, Scotland's education secretary, SNP council leader Roddy McCuish told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme:[1][2] Vorlage:Cquote
References
- ↑ NeverSeconds blogger Martha Payne school dinner photo ban lifted. BBC Scotland, 15. Juni 2012, abgerufen am 15. Juni 2012.
- ↑ Andrew Hough and Simon Johnson: Victory for Martha Payne as Argyll and Bute council backs down on school dinner blog ban, Daily Telegraph, 15 Jun 2012