What the Sunday papers said

More alcohol will be consumed this Christmas than ever before, prompting medical experts to warn of a health crisis, especially among young women. Over the 12 days of Christmas, the average Briton will get through 18 pints of beer, three bottles of wine, one bottle of spirits and four glasses of fortified wine - 137 units in less than two weeks. Tougher labelling to inform consumers of the strength of the alcohol they are drinking is being considered by the government, but Professor Rob Baggott, author of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report, "Alcohol Strategy and the drinks industry", dismisses the notion that education is enough. His study uncovered allegations that drinks companies are manipulating research they fund into the medical and social effects of alcohol in a bid to play down the links to ill health. - Independent On Sunday​

Dutch bank ABN Amro is in talks to take a majority stake in TGI Friday's after teaming up with US leisure group Carlson Wagonlit to buy the restaurant chain from Whitbread for £70m. Whitbread has been trying to sell its 46 TGI restaurants for several months. On source involved in the talks said an agreement could come in a "few days or few weeks". - Sunday Times​

The Golden Heart, a pub opposite Spitalfields' market at the edges of London's East End, has become the epicentre of modern artistic culture. Licensee Sandra Esquilant has run the pub for 25 years and remains almost blissfully unaware of the pub's importance as the haunt of the country's artistic bright young things, including troubled rocker Pete Doherty and his model girlfriend Kate Moss, as well as artists Gilbert and George, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas, to name three. Plus the ghost of Elizabeth Fry, apparently, who turns the beer taps off when things get a bit…rowdy. - Observer​