'Kylie can't get brew out of her head'

Locals at a tiny rural boozer were suspicious when a sign went up claiming Kylie Minogue and Tinie Tempah would be performing that evening. Especially as the usual highlights are the weekly £6 curry night and a quiz on the last Tuesday of every month. But the unlikely gig was for real - making the Ring O' Bells in Compton Martin, Somerset, the coolest pub in the world - The Sun​

Well-heeled binge-drinkers are being blamed for record numbers of 999 ambulance call-outs. Paramedics in parts of the country respond to an alcohol related problem every eight and a half minutes, figures show - the highest level since licensing laws were relaxed in 2005 - The Daily Mail​

Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) is ready to sell 333 pubs in £373m deal as company moves toward restaurants. Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has not revealed which of its huge portfolio of nearly 2,000 pubs and restaurants are included in the sell-off to private equity firm TDR Capital - The Plymouth Herald​

A body which represents hundreds of pubs in the North-East has backed a campaign calling on the Government to put an end to cheap supermarket alcohol. The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) North- East Region is supporting the "I have a drink problem" campaign, which was launched by Balance, the North-East Alcohol Office, last week. The campaign highlights the problems caused by alcohol misuse faced by people working in frontline services - The Northern Echo​

British business is having the life strangled out of it by the banks charging over the odds for loans and calling in debts at short notice, say the UK's small enterprises. So what is to be done? One entrepreneur, James Meekings, has an idea and he'd like you to fork out for it - The Independent​