'Woman hit with first booze ban'
A young Doncaster woman has become one of the first in the country to be slapped with a new Drinking Banning Order to curb her anti-social drunken behaviour in local pubs. Hanane Elfidh, aged 27, was yesterday banned from every pub and club in Tickhill for the next 12 months. The Drinking Banning Order was issued by Doncaster magistrates less than a week after tough new legislation came into force to prevent alcohol-fuelled crime and disorder in 25 towns and cities across Britain, including Doncaster - South Yorkshire Star
Another 30 leading business leaders have backed the Conservative pledge not to increase National Insurance next year. In total, the heads of 68 of the country's biggest businesses have now backed the Conservative policy of cutting Government waste rather than increasing National Insurance. They employ almost one million people. The new business leaders to support the scrapping of the one pence in the pound increase in National Insurance include Ralph Findlay, chief executive, Marston's ; Michael Turner, chief executive, Fuller, Smith & Turner; Stephen Goodyear, chief executive, Young & Co's; Tom Wells, chairman, Charles Wells - Daily Telegraph
Rebounding UK commercial real estate prices, which rose 2 percent in March after a 1.4 percent rise in February, remain at risk if supply spikes unexpectedly in the medium term, CB Richard Ellis research showed. The latest Monthly Index from CBRE, the world's largest real estate broker, showed a further acceleration of capital growth in March, taking first-quarter 2010 price rises to 4.4 percent - Reuters
Continued growth in food and cask ale sales helped Marston's report an improvement in first-half trading, but the brewer and pub operator said it remained cautious on the outlook for 2010. In spite of delivering what analysts considered a solid trading update, Ralph Findlay, chief executive, cautioned that the need to cut Britain's debt burden could threaten to derail the nascent recovery in consumer spending - FT
A dog that achieved worldwide fame for regularly catching a bus to a pub has been knocked down and killed near his favourite stop. Ratty, ten, a Jack Russell, used to travel five miles to see drinkers in a bar and be fed sausages. But owner Gary Kay, 45, said the pooch had been hit by a speeding driver - The Sun
