What the Sunday papers say
Scotland on Sunday
- Scottish & Newcastle faces new accusations from the Transport & General Workers Union that it misled its workforce over the future of its doomed Edinburgh brewery. Click hereto read more on thePublican.com.
Scotland's biggest whisky distillery - North British Distillery, in central Edinburgh - could join the exodus from the city after the managing director admitted he shared the concern of S&N about the high costs of operating in the city centre.
Sunday Herald
- Bosses are spending tens of thousands of pounds each year on private treatment to help their workforce quit smoking.
The Sunday Telegraph
- On the spot fines for drunkenness was Tony Blair's answer to louts causing havoc in town centres but police have been told they cannot issue on-the-spot fines to anybody who is too drunk to understand what is going on.
Australia's Appeals Court has ruled that two casinos should repay a compulsive gambler, who lost his business and tried to take his life, £336,709. Christian Hainz said the operators had done nothing to help cure his gambling habit.
Robin Saunders, the high-profile former WestLB banker, is back, backed by Michael Milken, the financier. WestLB was a key stakeholder in Pubmaster.
Fred Goodwin, chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, was paid £3.5m last year making him one of the highest paid in the FTSE100.
The Observer
- Doctors should be paid to warn patients who have a bad drinking habit, as a radical new way of curbing Britain's excessive drinking culture.
Sunday Express
- The Government is trying to sneak in national identity cards "by the back door" using plans for a Euro health insurance card, Tories claim.
Deaths from alcohol abuse have hit a new record, more than doubling over the past 20 years. Drink-related deaths in England and Wales have rocketed from 2,575 in 1982 to 6,100 in 2002, a rise of 137 per cent.
The stock market is back on an upwards run, say experts.
The Mail on Sunday
- Private equity firm Vision Capital has acquired stakes in 800-strong Avebury Taverns and also, the Barbados hotel group Elegant Hotels.
The Independent on Sunday
- Carlsberg-Tetley chief executive Colin Povey has been named in a list of the 10 leading people in human resources.
The Sunday Times
- An attempt by Gordon Ramsey to turn himself into a televised restaurant "trouble shooter" has been marred by Fawlty Towers-style rows with staff.
Alias Hotels, a five-strong chain aimed at the 25-50 age group, has hired BDO Stoy Hayward to raise £40m for expansion in Britain, then Europe.
Von Essen Hotels is to pay £100m for the five-star Lanesborough Hotel, which boasts 95 rooms on the edge of London's Hyde Park.
The government will not legislate to curb excessive pay packages for poorly performing executives.
