What the Sunday papers said

The Mail on Sunday

• The headline reads: "How Britain's biggest pub boss became intoxicated by a blonde banker and called time on a 23-year marriage".

The page three article tells how Ted Tuppen of Enterprise Inns is divorced from his wife and is now seeing a former female banker from Deutsche Bank.

Mr Tuppen's ex-wife was quoted as saying: "We are now divorced and my husband is seeing Hilary [Bowman]. But she has been absolutely no problem as regards my marriage or my relationship with my ex-husband."

Meanwhile, Enterprise Inns is expected to post figures ahead of expectations. Profits of £168m are due.

Brewer and pub operator Wolverhampton & Dudley will this week unveil profits of £30m, £1m ahead of expectations.

Columnist and ex-footballer George Best has slammed a new beer called Dogfish Head WorldWide Stout. The brew is stronger than most fortified wines and should be banned says the former Manchester United and Northern Ireland winger.

The Independent on Sunday​

• A daily pint can drastically cut the risk of senile dementia, the Journal of the American Medical Association says. But two drinks a day raises the risk by 22 per cent.

BC Partners may have walked away from Mitchells & Butlers but the UK's biggest managed pub company still remains a takeover target. US buyout specialist Kolhberg Kravis Roberts, Texas Pacific and Cinven are all thought to be interested.

According to a survey, 77 per cent of small and medium sized firms feel let down by the Department of Trade and Industry.

The Business​

• Mitchells & Butlers, the former pub arm of Six Continents, will this week announce plans to raise up to £1.7bn against its 2,050-strong pub estate.

The Sunday Telegraph​

• Robin Saunders, the high-profile dealmaker, has issued a "back me or sell me the business" ultimatum to her bosses at WestLB.

The German bank is said to be unhappy with losses against the Boxclever deal and has called Saunders to account. The City's so-called Claudia Schiffer has backed a raft of companies including Pubmaster.

The Sunday Times​

• More than 1,000 pubs will this week join the wireless revolution, testing new technology that allows customers to stay in touch with the office from the comfort of the bar. "Hotspots" in pubs mean lap tops can send and receive messages through gaming machines.

Financier Guy Hands is to launch a £100m rescue bid for the troubled international hotels chain Le Meridien. Read more on thePublican.com...