Senior Cabinet ministers have joined forces to derail plans to open up to 250 super-casinos across Britain. Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell is being forced into a humiliating climbdown by a pincer operation from the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, and the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott. It is now believed there will be no more than 20 of the super-casinos with fruit machines offering £1m jackpots - The Observer New Whitbread boss, Alan Parker, is expected to deliver a £500m bonanza for shareholders this week by revealing plans to sell off a chunk of the leisure group's Marriott hotel estate. His review is expected to centre on a sale and manage back of the Marriott estate, where Whitbread sells the property but continues to run the hotels - The Independent on Sunday
The NHS is to offer every patient in Britain a personal diet and fitness regime among radical measures to force individuals to take greater responsibility for their own health in the Government's forthcoming White Paper on public health. To be decided, however, are measures allowing local authorities to ban smoking in the work place in the White Paper - The Independent on Sunday
Prince Charles has revealed his great ambition - to join the Campaign for Real Ale and enter his Duchy Original beer in their competitions. He made his revelation at a food and wine fair in Turin, Italy - The Sunday Express
Opponents of the Government's gambling reforms are snobs who want to deny ordinary people the right to bet, says Tessa Jowell, the Culture Secretary. She said: "There's a whiff of snobbery in some of the opposition to new casinos: people who think they should remain the preserve of the rich; others that find them gaudy and in poor taste; others that don't want the big investment that will come from the United States. They are entitled to those views, but they are not entitled to force them on others" - The Sunday Telegraph
Shepherd Neame chief executive Jonathan Neame faces a shareholder revolt led by his second cousin Stuart Neame at the family-owned brewer's annual meeting on Friday. Stuart has written to other shareholders urging them to vote for three special resolutions that would put his brother Roderick on the board and force the company to reveal detailed figures about the business - The Mail on Sunday
Whitbread is planning to return hundreds of millions of pounds to shareholders through the sale of assets that could fetch as much as £500m, including the sale of Britvic, which it jointly owns, for about £200m - The Mail on Sunday
Down-and-outs in the area around Old Street underground station in East London are to get their own outdoor 'lounge bar' thanks to £1 million of taxpayers money. A leading architect has been commissioned to design tailor-made benches as part of an urban redevelopment project to make street drinkers 'feel good'- The Mail on Sunday
The prospects of a takeover of Scottish & Newcastle by a rival such as SABMiller or Heineken have lessened after S&N revealed a resurgence in beer sales last week. The world's largest player are preoccupied with other challenges in key emerging markets or busy protecting incumbent positions in domestic markets, which appears to the case for Anheuser Busch - The Business
Alan Parker, chief executive of Whitbread, will this week announce plans to move the leisure company's head office for the second time in four years when he unveils the results of a strategic review. Parker wants to quit the group's glamorous offices in the Citypoint Tower in the Square Mile to be closer to the headquarters of its operating divisions, all mainly based in Bedfordshire - The Sunday Times