'Zero hour for Setanta'
As the opening day of the Premier League season looms, pay-TV broadcaster Setanta is being warned that this season will be "make or break" for its bid to end Sky's domination - Guardian
The cost of food and fuel pushed the annual inflation rate to a 16-year-high of 4.4 per cent last month and left it on course to hit 5 per cent in autumn. A 40 per cent increase in the cost of eggs and a 41 per cent increase in the price of a white loaf contributed to rising costs - Guardian
The UK's largest ever university finance poll has found Falmouth, Teesside and Bangor Universities had the cheapest booze, with beer less than £1.50 a pint. But colleges in London and Edinburgh were among the most expensive for drink - The Sun
Swedish parents are now free to name their newborns Budweiser or Coca-Cola. The country's tax authorities had banned parents from naming their children after fast-food chains, rock bands or their favourite brand of beer. But tax authority spokesman Lars Tegenfeldt said recently: "There is nothing negative about a name like Coca-Cola or McDonald's today. In the 1970s, maybe it was." - Guardian
A Young's pub in Bristol has become a canvas for a Banksy-style graffiti artist. Its outside wall shows a hooded youth who has written "vandalism" with a heart-shaped V. Pub manager Bradd Francis said he was pleased "it highlights an otherwise white building" - BBC
After yesterday's figures showing there were 4,603 arrests last year and 104 reported rapes of Britains abroad, a former Thomas Cook press officer has pointed the finger at bar owners willing to sell goldfish bowls full of spirits for under £10, the police, 'the Asbo generation' and holiday reps - Daily Mail