Thumbs upLondon department store Harrods is selling posh pot noodles for over €50 a pop. Customers also get a fork and table linen with the green and gold jar - the colours of the livery of the store in Knightsbridge. Only 100 of the Poulet et Champignon (chicken and mushroom) flavour are being made and the money is going to charity. The store is also planning to sell limited editions of Lea & Perrins worcestershire sauce and Heinz tomato ketchup.

Thumbs downCarbon offsetting sites are inconsistent and confusing according to British consumer magazine, Which?When the magazine compared the websites of 13 carbon offset companies, emissions calculated for the same West London couple varied from 1.15 tonnes (Carbon Footprint) to 7.1 tonnes (The Carbon Neutral Company). The British government calculator gave a figure of 4.31 tonnes for the test home. The cost to offset a tonne of CO2 varied from £7 a tonne to almost £23 a tonne depending on the website. The overall cost to offset carbon produced by the test home ranged from £25 to almost £160.