Children caught trying to buy alcohol from supermarket chain Asda will face prosecution, it has been announced - Daily Mail
Asda is to stop selling shot-sized "shooter" alcopops popular with young teenagers as part of a drive to stamp out underage drinking - The Guardian
Cider could be hit with a tax hike in the Budget to stop children binge drinking on cheap booze - Daily Mirror
Cigarette sales have fallen by almost seven per cent following the smoking ban in England - Daily Mirror
The scale of youth binge drinking was exposed yesterday by a single day's hearings in one court where a dozen teenagers claimed that their separate crimes were all drink fuelled - The Times
Beer brand Old Speckled Hen has hired oil portrait painter Marvin Mattelson, who has 10 pieces of work in the US National Portrait Gallery and painted numerous covers for Time magazine, to develop an ad campaign to promote the virtues of the real ale - The Guardian
Prices of top-quality wheat jumped 25 per cent to a record high on Monday - the largest one-day increase - as Kazakhstan, one of the largest grain exporters, said it would impose export tariffs to curb sales - Financial Times
A new survey reveals that garlic breath is no longer the turn-off that it once was. Nine in 10 of us claim not to mind if our date has been wrapping his or her lips around the pungent plant before getting up close and personal - Daily Express