Which? reviewed hygiene inspection reports for 50 hospitals and found evidence of cockroaches, mice and mouldy cooking equipment.

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The staircase of the crumbling, concrete housing block was pickled in the old acrid odours - cats, cooking fat, mouldy potatoes.

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In normal conditions, bread will go mouldy in around 10 days.

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Lord Justice Wall said the mother found the accommodation damp and mouldy, without gas, hot water or a cooker, and by the council's own admission it was inappropriate.

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She said the money would go on renovating her home, which she said had a "mouldy cellar, " and hiring a part-time nanny for her newly adopted five-year-old Chinese son, to allow her to work on new installations.

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That a heavyweight like Cargill Dow is convinced it can beat conventional plastics on cost and performance alone may be the best reason to think that biopolymers are about to burst out of their mouldy, green niche.

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