'Booze may reduce risk of arthritis'

Having a few drinks a week could slash the risk of rheumatoid arthritis. Those who keep off booze are four times more likely to get the disease than those drinking two or three times a week, a study found - Mirror ​

One in 10 small and medium-sized business owners plans to axe staff over the next three months, a worrying report reveals - Daily Mail ​

More than 45,000 lives a year could be saved if everyone began eating meat no more than two or three times a week, health experts and Friends of the Earth claim today. Widespread switching to low-meat diets would stop 31,000 people dying early from heart disease, 9,000 from cancer and 5,000 from strokes, according to new analysis of British eating habits by public health expert Dr Mike Rayner contained in an FoE report - The Guardian ​

"Alcohol is a drug of potential addiction. More and more young people are suffering liver damage and dying of cirrhosis of the liver. When alcohol is cheaper than a bottle of water or even a bar of chocolate, our common sense voice needs to shout: 'We've had enough'. Protect our children, their health and our future by letting alcohol be what it should be - 'For adult use only'," writes Dame Helen Newlove in The Sun ​

They would not normally be considered a suitable gift for the head of a visiting country, but when Chile's president Sebastian Pinera arrived at 10 Downing Street yesterday, waiting for him were 33 bottles of beer. The London Pride ale was not intended for his personal consumption but as a gift for the 33 miners who were rescued last week from a collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine - The Scotsman​