The Telegraph has this story.
The prison kitchen that beat yacht club
By Stewart Payne
Last Updated: 12:53am BST 26/03/2007
Their dining rooms are exclusive for different reasons, but the kitchen providing meals to inmates at Albany prison on the Isle of Wight has emerged with a five-star rating while the island's prestigious Royal Yacht Squadron club at Cowes manages just three.
Arguably, porridge has never tasted so good.
The island council's environmental health department has turned the results of its routine inspection of kitchens at 1,900 premises, including schools, church halls and prisons, as well as cafes and restaurants, into a ratings table. The new initiative is designed to improve standards in food preparation, and premises can display their star rating to customers.
Using a formula that examines all aspects of kitchen hygiene, the inspectors produced a score for each premises of between no stars, meaning it had managed the minimum standards, to five stars.
It has thrown up some surprising results. Albany and Camp Hill prisons get top marks. But the Royal Yacht Squadron, which serves meals to its exclusive membership, including Prince Philip, a former commodore, has three.
The Royal Yacht Squadron, housed inside imposing Cowes Castle and the base for Cowes Week, also lags behind All Saints Parish Church in Godshill, a local cinema and two branches of McDonald's.
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