Its chief executive, Roger Whiteside, said: "Threshers + Food, while attracting an enthusiastic following from a section of our customers, has not achieved the sales volume needed to support a fresh food offer of this quality."The stores will revert to the Threshers name or be rebranded as specialist wine shops. People are still worrying over the bleeding obvious."The investigation into the two members' concerns will conclude early next month.Dr MacKerron confirmed the suspension and resignation but declined to comment further.. A much-hyped move into fresh food by off-licence chain Threshers has been ditched after less than a year. The Government wants to publish an energy White Paper raising the possibility of building new reactors soon after the general election. At the moment nuclear power provides around 20 per cent of Britain's electricity, but most reactors will close in the next 10 years.Last month, Dr Keith Baverstock, the former head of the radiation protection division at the World Health Organisation, was suspended from the 13-member committee.

Dr Baverstock had written to the Government to complain about the committee's management under its chairman, Dr Gordon MacKerron. Another member, Professor David Ball, suspended himself from the committee earlier this month in support of Dr Baverstock.The remit of CoRWM, which was set up in 2003, is to consult with members of the public about the different options for waste storage before recommending a preferred option. One possible solution put forward for consultation is to blast the waste into outer space. Some members believe this non-scientific approach is a waste of time.One source close to the committee said: "You do not make decisions about safety without bringing in the proper technical expertise It puts people at risk unnecessarily The progress over the first nine months has been pitiful. Britain's nuclear policy is in crisis after the Government suspended one member of its committee on waste storage and another member resigned in protest.

But the two rebel members are thought to have been unhappy with the slow progress the committee is making. There are fears its deliberations could delay the search for a long-term solution to Britain's nuclear waste problem.Currently, the waste, which has built up over the past 50 years, is stored in temporary sites dotted around the country. This makes it more vulnerable to terrorist attack than if it were stored in a single repository, which is an option preferred by many.Not having a policy to deal with existing waste is also an obstacle to building new nuclear reactors. On magazine distribution, it will call for a free and open market. For newspapers, it will rule that the market should be opened up but protections should be put in place to ensure that everyone in the country can buy a paper. The ruling will come after nearly two years of wrangling between retailers, wholesalers, publishers and the Government over how the distribution system should be reformed.A report written by Professor Paul Dobson of Loughborough University, which was commissioned by some of Britain's largest publishers, revealed that a free market in news distribution would increase wholesaling costs by up to 25 per cent. Professor Dobson argued that these costs would be passed on to smaller newsagents, leading to the closure of between 9,000 and 12,000.Ian Locks, chief executive of the Periodical Publishers Association, said: "We don't think that newspapers and magazines should be treated in the same way as baked beans.