'Senior politicians to boycott Diageo golf championships at Gleneagles'

Scottish politicians are being urged to steer clear of corporate hospitality invitations from Diageo for this weekend's Johnnie Walker golf championship at Gleneagles. Unite, the union which has launched a campaign to save 900 jobs across Diageo's Scottish-based operations, is furious that the drinks giant is sponsoring a prestigious sporting tournament while it considers significant changes to its Scottish operations - Scotsman ​

Business leaders in Edinburgh city centre are to mount a campaign to boost the city's alfresco culture - by slashing red tape and cutting the costs of operating pavement café areas. The city council is to be lobbied to relax the rules over outdoor eating and drinking areas amid fears they are crippling businesses trying to encourage a more continental atmosphere - Scotsman ​

More than 10,000 Britons abroad ended up in hospital or cells last year - many because of too much booze. The total includes aged and genuinely sick ex-pats. But the Foreign Office lays the blame mostly on teen holiday alcohol for its new figures - Mirror ​

The UK recession could soon be over, say a group of experts. They forecast that economic output will be up 0.5% by the end of next month. At the same time, business confidence in this quarter has jumped from minus 28.2 to plus 4.8, the largest rise since 2003 - Mirror ​

Last orders have been called for the traditional pint glass, after the Government deemed them too dangerous to handle - Daily Mail ​

If Carlsberg did accidents, they'd probably look like this... dozens of kegs of the lager litter a road after a lorry shed its load. The barrels tumbled out of the truck as it rounded a tight bend yesterday - hitting cars and flattening fences and a bus shelter. There were no reports of injury but traffic was brought to a standstill for an hour on the A12 near Yoxford, Suffolk. Witness Elly Henson, 26, said: "It was chaos." - The Sun ​