(6 Sep 2006)
1. Mothers with their children outside Riga English Grammar School building
2. Wide of schoolchildren near school building
3. Close up woman near school doors
4. Wide of parents and children going to school
5. Wide of school canteen
6. Close up poster advertising milk
7. Pan across schoolchildren walking into school
8. Close up glasses of milk in canteen
9. Teacher and school director untying a ribbon on a milk machine
10. Close up of children
11. Close up man pouring milk from the machine
12. School director drinking milk UPSOUND (Latvian) School director (no name available):
"From now on we are going to drink milk !"
13. Wide of children applauding
14. Close up children pouring milk from milk machine
15. Close up children taking glasses of milk from tray
16. SOUNDBITE (Latvian) Aigars Petersons, head of the child surgery department of the Riga Stradinja Hospital:
"I am glad that our president and government finally understood that we should not listen to (former US Secretary of State) Mrs. Albright. I know that she is representing the giant cola concern, but the health of our children is more important."
17. Close up children drinking milk
18. Children taking ice-creams from a box
19. Wide shot children in canteen
20. Close up boy drinking milk
21. Close up children drinking chocolate milk
22. SOUNDBITE (Latvian) Patricia, Riga English Grammar School pupil:
"I don't really like chips and cola, I even don't like sweets very much. I think they should sell milk instead."
23. Children taking glasses of milk from a tray
24. Close up children with milk
25. SOUNDBITE (Latvian) Voxpop, Riga English Grammar School pupil:
"I think milk is better then chips and cola. Milk is more healthy, it has a lot of vitamins."
26. Wide of school cafe
27. Close up packets of crisps
28. SOUNDBITE (Latvian) Voxpop, Rainis, school student:
"I don't mind that they sell chips and cola here, I don't think there is any difference. Of course it's not healthy. And I think the companies (that produce chips and cola) will lose a lot (after chips and cola are banned)."
29. Cafe employee working
30. Close up of packets of crisps on shelf
31. SOUNDBITE (Latvian) Anita, school cafe employee:
"I don't think the companies (that produce chips and cola) will lose a lot, because in any case children are buying bread sticks and pretzels, they like cookies and pastry more (than crisps)."
32. Fridge with soft drink bottles
LEAD IN :
With worldwide fears of obesity in children growing, one European country has addressed the issue by banning the sale of junk food in schools.
Potato chips, soft drinks and sweets will soon be a thing of the past in school shops and canteens across Latvia.
STORYLINE:
This week thousands of children have gone back to school across Europe.
And in one Baltic state junk food will soon be off the menu, after the government introduced a ban on the sale of the unhealthy snacks in schools.
The pupils at the English Grammar School in Riga, Latvia, drank milk and ate ice-cream on their first day back following the government bid to improve the health of children across the country.
The director of the Riga English Grammar School opened the school year by untying a ribbon on a milk machine, and announcing that all the schoolteachers and children would be drinking milk from then on.
One pupil, Patricia, said she was happy about the coming changes as she didn't like snack foods and soft drinks anyway.
Latvia will become the first EU country to implement a total ban on junk food sales in schools, when the law comes into effect on the 1st of November.
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