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Pressure is growing on U.S. President Barack Obama from Americans at home and abroad to scrap a planned 300 percent duty hike on Roquefort cheese that many say is embarrassing for their country’s image.
The duty, raised by Obama’s predecessor George W. Bush as part of a raft of taxes in retaliation to a European Union [...]

Wensleydale, the crumbly British cheese that fuelled the capers of animated characters Wallace and Gromit, has been singled out as the star performer of the country’s food and drink exports, defying the recession to bring home bumper profits.
The Wensleydale dairy, in the North Yorkshire town of Hawes, now sends nearly £2 million worth [...]