date:Mar 31, 2017
One Nottingham green grocer has been fined 2,630 for continuing to sell rotten fruit even after being warned. Apples, pears, tomatoes and peaches failed inspections at Mac's Mini Market on Radford Road, Hyson Green.
Nottingham magistrates heard that Ainsley MacLaren, 59, had the rotten food on sale last June, 10 months after visits from civil servants working for DEFRA, the government department dealing with food.
The court heard that one batch of gala apples was 37 percent rotten, while round