Persistent rain, flooding and the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease have hit the incomes of farmers and other country-based businesses, retailers, food companies, hauliers, and the tourism sector - The Financial Times
A leading barrister and part-time judge believes ASBOs should be scrapped because they could lead to severe injustice. Sally O'Neill, QC, who takes over this week as chairman of the 4,000-strong Criminal Bar Association, also urges a radical review of the way teenagers and children are dealt with in the criminal justice system - The Times
Britain's monsoon summer has had an impact on the nation's eating habits with people abandoning healthy diets and seeking solace from the unending rain in stodgy, comfort foods, according to research from supermarket chain Somerfield - The Independent
Diageo will start selling Guinness Red at pub chains across the Midlands and London this week. The red brew will be made with the same ingredients as Guinness Draught, but with lightly roasted barley - The Daily Mirror
Workers at a Coca-Cola factory have staged a second strike in a row over pay. The GMB union said more than 100 of its members at the manufacturing site in Milton Keynes, Bucks, joined the 24-hour walk-out after rejecting a 2.5 per cent pay offer - The Daily Mirror
Coffee shops are now Britain's fastest-growing retail business. There are already more than 3,000 on the High Street, clocking up sales of £1.3bn a year — and experts say those numbers will double by 2017. As a nation, we polish off 70 million cups of coffee a day, and health specialists YorkTest reckon as many as one in 20 of us has an intolerance to it - The Sun