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	....NEWS - 2005
	...November
	Martin Blackwell and John Kent buy champion Angus heifer / steer from the Aberdeen Christmas Classic Livestock Show at Inverurie. Don Bluck buys champion steer from Colchester market Christmas show. Chefs visit Direct Meat from Gibeys Restaurants in Amersham and Windsor.
	...October
	RESTAURANT COMMUNITY COMES TOGETHER TO RAISE £18,000 FOR ACTION AGAINST HUNGER Direct Meats donated the meats for the main course for the fifth 'Too Many Critics' fundraising dinner in support of international humanitarian relief charity, where £18,000 was raised for Action Against Hunger. MORE
	...July
	Taylor Scrutton (technical consultant) and Martyn Cox (director) in association with Conran restaurants, demonstrated live meat cutting theatre at the four-day skill city exhibition at the London Excel. Stuart Gillies and team from Gordon Ramsay's Boxwood Restaurant in London visited Direct Meats, this included a farm tour at the Marks Hall estate, Coggeshall, to view Gloucester Old Spot pigs feeding naturally on acorns in the woods. Tour of Direct Meats premises, meat cutting demonstrations and lunch at Micheal Roux’s White Hart Nayland.
	...June
	John Kent (director) and Don Bluck (factory manager) visit Brittany to see French poultry production.
	...April
	John Kent (director) and Don Bluck (factory manager) visit Northern Ireland and Eire to look at beef production.
	...March
	John Kent (director) and Don Bluck (factory manager) invited to the Argentinean Embassy for a presentation of quality South American meats. Julie Daniels, from BBC Radio 4, visits Direct Meats to research material for a play for Radio 4 about life in a meat factory.
	...February
	Chef and proprietors from Tatlers Restaurant in Norwich visit Knights Farm. Tour of plant including meat cutting demonstration. Direct Meats visit to the International Food Exhibition at the Excel Arena, London, researching new ideas and products for the food industry.