'Highest earners drink the most'

The highest earners are the most likely to drink too much, a Whitehall report revealed yesterday. It found that more than half of all men being paid more than £1,000 a week exceed the government's alcohol limits - Daily Mail​

Baxters yesterday revealed that almost a third of its revenue now came from overseas and it was "highly likely" the iconic food company would buy another foreign business in the next year - The Scotsman​

A cup of coffee a day could stop Alzheimer's disease, scientists say. Tests on rabbits in the US show caffeine can help prevent high cholesterol from causing memory loss in ageing - Daily Mirror​

Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has shocked food faddists by saying it is okay to use lard in restaurants. Once a staple ingredient of British food, lard has fallen out of favour in recent years because of health concerns - Daily Express​

The idea that drinking eight glasses of water a day is good for your health has been dismissed as a myth. Scientists say there is no evidence drinking large amounts of water is beneficial for the average healthy person, and do not even know how this widely held belief came about - Daily Telegraph​

Italian food and restaurant chain Carluccio's reassured on current trading yesterday after it reported a 19 per cent rise in half-year revenues - The Scotsman​

A son is offering £7 an hour for someone to take his elderly dad to the pub for a beer. When great grandad Jack Hammond, 88, had to move into a care home, he found a good local but has no one to go with him for a pint - Daily Mirror​

One of the country's most aristocratic families has announced it will boycott Selfridges while it continues to sell foie gras - Daily Telegraph​

An Iranian has opened the world's most northerly kebab outlet in the freezing wastelands of the Arctic circle - Daily Telegraph​