'£7bn food scam exposed'

Cheap food is being dressed up as top-quality produce in a vast fraud costing shoppers £7billion a year, it is claimed today. There is mounting evidence of battery farm eggs being sold as free range, farmed fish passed off as wild and inferior meat labelled as organic - Daily Mail​

Punch Taverns on Thursday reported underlying interim profits in line with expectations but said pressures on its consumers were unlikely to ease for the remainder of the financial year - Financial Times​

Major American food stores have begun rationing sales of rice to prevent stockpiling by customers who are worried by the soaring price of staple foods - The Independent ​

A son has solved his lonely father's drink problem with a pub-visit job share. After a series of interviews, two men were found to be up to the job of having a pint with Jack Hammond, a genial elderly gentleman in need of a regular drinking partner - The Times​

British scientists have shown that actively remembering your last meal suppresses appetite and reduces the desire to snack on junk food - Daily Mail​

A winemaker was crushed to death at his own vineyard - when a delivery of 200 bottles fell from on top of him - Daily Mail​

He is the outspoken whisky tycoon who has ruffled more than a few feathers since snapping up one of Scotland's biggest firms last year. Now Vijay Mallya has set himself on a collision course with traditionalists by calling for the industry to experiment with flavours to make Scotch more attractive to young people - The Scotsman​

Scotch whisky producer Inver House Distillers has reported a doubling of annual profits following a "significant" investment in its marketing activities - The Scotsman​

The glorious sunshine is just a taste of things to come say forecasters with temperatures on Saturday set to hit 25C (77F) - Daily Express​