What the Sunday papers said

The Mail on Sunday

• The 'ladette' culture of binge drinking has been blamed for a shocking surge in the number of young women being knocked down and killed on British roads.

The price for Scottish & Newcastle Retail has risen to £2.5bn as a number of companies including Laurel, Mitchells & Butlers and Spirit compete for the 1,500-strong managed house business.

In an interview, Eldridge Pope's new chief executive Susan Barratt says the company needs to 'prove that we can run pubs, which we haven't really done for the past few years'. She has scrapped acquisitions and has made staff training and motivation a priority.

The Foreign Office has written to the notorious tour operator Club 18-30 over the offensive behaviour of British tourists in the Greek Islands.

The Sunday Times​

• CI Traders, the Channel Islands conglomerate that includes the Anne Street pub business, has been rebuffed by Eldridge Pope. CI wanted to buy Eldridge and its bid valued it above its share price. Eldridge is also being stalked by pub entrepreneur Michael Cannon. Read more on thePublican.com.

Women may be failing to break through the glass ceiling because they lack the negotiating skills to get what they want, a new book has claimed.

The Sunday Telegraph​

• The Sunday Telegraph reports that CI Traders is still drawing up plans to bid for Eldridge Pope and is yet to place a formal offer.

Quote of the week comes from Eldridge Pope chief Susan Barratt, whose company has placed karaoke machines in some of its pubs. She said: "The only time I tried karaoke, the plug was pulled because I was so awful."

A three-day real ale festival run by Lions fundraisers in Knaresborough, North Yorks, was scrapped after two days when the beer ran out.

The Independent on Sunday​

• Scottish & Newcastle plans to double US sales of its Newcastle Brown Ale and is about to embark on a £16m marketing programme.

High-fat foods should carry graphic warnings about the health risks of obesity, experts have told the Government.

A new Australian women's drink-driving record has been set. Samantha O'Shea was found driving her car with a blood-alcohol level eight times the legal limit and only just under the lethal mark. "I'm surprised you're still here," said the judge sentencing her.

The Observer​

• Children as young as six are being sucked into a dangerous drinking culture, with hundreds ending up in accident and emergency departments after 'binge drinking' on alcopops and lager.

John Grieve Smith, a fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, and author of There Is A Better Way: A New Economic Agenda, has called for equal taxes across Europe, such as those levied upon alcohol.

The Sunday Express​

• The Express reports that brewer Scottish & Newcastle has launched the UK's first self-cooling beer keg, as revealed on thePublican.com.