What the Sunday papers say
The Independent on Sunday
- Alcohol saves more lives than it takes, according to new research, which says that while alcohol is blamed for 13,000 deaths a year, moderate intake saves 15,000. Click here to read more on thePublican.com.
Diary: Financial results out this week include regional brewer Hardys & Hansons (Tuesday), Young's (Thursday) and Fuller's (Friday). See thePublican.com to read these results first.
The Observer
- Smokers are turning Britain's coastline into a giant deathtrap for marine wildlife prompting calls for smoking bans on beaches similar to measures being introduced in Australia and the US.
The Sunday Express
- A crusading publican is calling time on the "half-price" drinks culture. Declan Duggan, who is holding talks with police chiefs, MPs, and Home Office officials, is no stranger to campaigning. He changed the face of Britain's drink-driving laws two years ago allowing police to take blood samples from unconscious drivers after his 19-year-old son Kevin was killed in a crash.
Coors, brewer of Britain's biggest lager Carling, has struck a £30m outsourcing deal. Click here to read more on thePublican.com.
Celebrities are to be banned from advertising junk food unless they help combat Britain's couch potato culture.
The Mail on Sunday
- A consultant who helped draw up David Blunkett's controversial plans for a national ID card works for a company that stands to make millions from the project.
Property entrepreneur Robert Tchenguiz, a former stakeholder in Pubmaster, which was sold to Punch last November, is trying to thrash out a last minute deal to buy Odeon cinemas from German bank WestLB, also a former major shareholder of Pubmaster.
The MoS City diary Gadfly reports that the managing director of investment bank Daiwa SMBC, Andrew Ashbury, is currently to be found pulling pints at The Old Sun in the village of Halington, Bedfordshire. He is covering for his local's holidaying landlord.
Moves to ban junk food adverts from children's TV have been attacked as "thought policing gone too far".
The Sunday Times
- Leisure analysts Geof Collyer (9), of Deutsche Bank, and Cristina Badenes (10), of UBS, have been named in a top ten list of stockpickers for 2003. The index was drawn up from 1,100 stockpickers. Click here to read more on thePublican.com.
The ST's "How I Made It" column featuring entrepreneurs, this week profiles Maria Kempinska, founder of Jongleurs, who gave comedians Paul Merton and Mike Myers their big breaks. She launched the chain at a room in a pub after persuading her bank to let her have a £300 overdraft. She sold the chain to Regent Inns for £8.5m.
The makers of fatty foods will be asked to contribute some of their advertising budgets promoting healthy eating under proposals to be announced this week to help combat the country's growing obesity epidemic.
The Sunday Telegraph
- Home owners will be told tomorrow by mortgage lenders that interest rates will have to double to prevent a housing crash.
