What the Sunday papers say

Robert Breare is to receive £4.5m from HBOS, the Scottish bank, in a rescue refinancing of his Noble House Pub Company. The deal comes after another of his backers, Hermes, the influential pension fund, refused to invest any more money in the business. It is believed to have lost more than £15m. The Sunday Times​

Gamblers are to be given the chance to win unlimited prizes on fruit machines, opening the way for American-style £1m jackpots in casinos. Tessa Jowell, the culture secretary, will announce on Monday that the government is to lift the prize limit of £1,000 as part of a relaxation of gambling laws. The big jackpots will be restricted to machines in casinos, which are to be encouraged through more relaxed planning rules and the prospect of installing banks of gaming machines. The Sunday Times​

Bill Shannon, the restaurant chief who missed out on the top job at Whitbread, has walked away with a £750,000 pay-off. The deal, worth twice Shannon's annual salary, was signed just before the leisure group became the latest company to cut the duration of directors service contracts from two years to 12 months. Shannon, 54, quit Whitbread after losing to hotels boss Alan Parker in the race to succeed David Thomas as chief executive. The Mail On Sunday​

Film censors are considering new measures to protect children's health by clamping down on Hollywood scenes of drinking and smoking. In future, tobacco and alcohol could be included alongside sex and violence when the film board classifies new movies - a step which could ban children from watching films where heavy smoking is portrayed. The Independent on Sunday​

Record sales of booze and burgers mean Britain's armchair football fans will have to play three times more soccer than the members of the England squad if they want to avoid putting on weight. With shops anticipating the biggest ever festival of consumption during Euro 2004, researchers have calculated that the average supporter in England will need to play 20 full matches to run off the thousands of extra calories. The Independent on Sunday​

Talks continue in Las Vegas on MGM Mirage's bid to buy the Mandalay Resort Group in a deal that would create the world's biggest casino. If the deal is completed, MGM would be undisputed king of the Vegas strip, owning nearly half the hotel and casino space. The Business​

Small and medium sized businesses in the UK miss out on interest payments of £422m a year on deposit accounts because they do not shop around for better deals. Three years after the UK government tried to improve the banking environment for smaller companies, research commissioned by Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank has highlighted a high level of apathy among firms that seem unwilling to help themselves. The Business​

Cadbury Schweppes will present plans for a £500m bond issue during a series of meeting with investors across Europe. The confectionery and drinks giant will embark on a European roadshow to test the market for the bond, which will be used to pay down loan facilities The Sunday Express​

A number of Britain's richest property tycoons are ready to sell commercial property assets in central London as they fear the top of the market may have been reached. The family of the late Greek shipping tycoon John Latsis is understood to be ready to offload more than £300 million of assets built up by the billionaire, who died last year. Meanwhile, sources close to Nick Leslau, the colourful property entrepreneur, say he is about to sell 'hundreds of millions of pounds' worth' of property assets. The Observer​

Control of Prezzo, the pizza and pasta restaurant chain, has fallen to Phillip Kaye, the veteran restaurateur and the company's main consultant, after a £9.3m rights issue. Phillip Kaye, uncle of Prezzo's chief executive Jonathan Kaye, now owns 50.04 per cent of Prezzo's equity. Financial Times (Weekend edition)​