Article: Top of the class; Before Jamie Oliver revealed the shameful state of school dinners, chef Nick Copson was working his own quiet revolution at a County Durham school. Now he's up for an award. Jane Hall reports. Taste FOOD MATTERS.(Features)

Byline: Jane Hall reports.

IT'S a cold, damp and misty November Thursday. Just the sort of day Nick Copson likes.

Indeed, the 35-year-old is preternaturally happy given the unwelcome turn the weather has taken. As he looks out at the drizzle falling from the sheets of low, shallow cloud, he rubs his hands together and gleefully says: "They won't want to be out in this."

"They" are the 800 or so 11-18-year-olds who attend Teesdale School in Barnard Castle, County Durham, where Nick takes care of the nutritional, rather than the educational, needs ...

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