'Basic food prices still soaring'

Families have been warned that the prices of basic foods will rise steeply again because of acute shortages in commodity markets - The Times​

Bread prices could rise by 10 per cent as the big bakery groups try to pass on the rising price of wheat to consumers - The Guardian​

The widow of tragic dad Garry Newlove yesterday called for random breath tests to stamp out underage drinking - Daily Mirror​

Boys aged 13 and 16 murdered a woman after drinking all day, a court heard yesterday - Daily Mirror​

The government stepped into a mounting row over air freight and "food miles" yesterday by accusing the Soil Association of endangering the livelihoods of 21,000 farmers in Africa - The Guardian​

Our changing tastes were reflected yesterday in coriander being named Britain's best-selling herb - Daily Telegraph​

A gas explosion has ripped through a disused pub in Leeds, injuring five people. Debris from the blast spread across a wide area, smashing the windows of parked cars, an eyewitness said - Daily Telegraph​

Temperatures yesterday reached a balmy 20c (67f) in London, with large parts of the country basking in sunshine - Daily Mail​

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has issued an unprecedented apology to Morrisons for wrongly suggesting that Britain's fourth-largest supermarket group was guilty of fixing prices for butter and cheese five years ago - The Times​

An increased interest in Englishness - combined with the realisation by marketing types that there is money to be made - is expected to turn today's St George's Day celebrations into the biggest in recent history - The Guardian​

Women could increase their chances of having a baby boy by upping their calorie intake when trying to get pregnant, research revealed yesterday - The Scotsman​