What the Sunday papers said

Under plans being drawn up by the Royal College of Nursing hundreds of thousands of smokers will be banned from lighting up in their homes when nurses or other health workers visit them. The RCN argues that staff visiting patients should not be forced to inhale smoke just because their workplace is in other people's homes. - Observer​

A leading academic is threatening to sue the Prime Minister over claims Mr Blair misled Parliament over the cost of identity cards. Simon Davies, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, has warned of legal action if either the Prime Minister or Home Secretary Charles Clarke repeat claims the LSE report into the cost of ID cards was not the work of its joint authors. Mr Davies alleges Mr Blair slurred him during a recent exchange in the House of Commons. - Sunday Express​

Nightclubs are increasingly hiring women as door security staff instead of male bouncers in order to tackle an epidemic of female violence at city centre entertainment venues. A new study by sociology lecturer Kate O'Brien has found that in some areas attacks by drunken women are almost as commonplace as those committed by men. John Saunders, chief executive of the Security Industry Authority believed the image of bouncers as male, "tattooed and menacing" had vanished and that "women are far more likely to be a source of trouble than they ever were in the past and it takes other women to understand them". - Sunday Times​

French vineyards are fighting back as part of a concerted effort to stem the flow of wine drinkers flocking to buy New World brands at the expense of Bordeaux, Bourgogne and other varieties. OVS, the brainchild of wine industry veteran Pascal Renaudat, has persuaded seven of the largest French co-operatives to band together to create a new set of branded wines that will challenge the established labels. All the wines produced will be branded 'Chamarre' - meaning "bursting with colour" - and are due to hit supermarket shelves in the next couple of months. - Sunday Times​

Whitbread is working on plans to launch a £1bn bid for Travelodge. Whitbread, which already owns the Premier Inn budget hotel chain, wants to be in pole position when Travelodge is put up for sale by majority owners Permira later this year. - Sunday Times​

At least two major retail chains - Bhs and DIY giant B&Q - will not be ready for the introduction of chip and pin card payments, which comes into effect this Tuesday (the 14th). Bhs says it will be ready for the new technology "by the summer", months after the deadline for conversion. The new method of payment, designed to cut down credit card fraud, requires customers to input their card's PIN number when making purchases, instead of signing paper receipts. - Mail On Sunday​

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College authorities in the US are cracking down on the traditional American ritual of campus drinking binges and drinking games, following a series of alcohol-fuelled deaths, accidents and fights. The practice, made famous by the film national Lampoon's Animal House as well as the current resident at the White House - who is said to have "majored in beer drinking" at Yale - is seen as a rite of passage for many young American undergraduates. But a growing number of colleges, concerned about the health of their charges and the reputation of their establishments, are clamping down. However some doubt the new curbs' effectiveness. Celebrated writer Tom Wolfe believes drinking in US colleges was worse in the 19th century than it is now. - Sunday Telegraph​