'Alcohol link to huge rise in oral cancers among people in their 40s'

Alcohol is behind a huge rise in oral cancers among people in their 40s, experts said yesterday. The number of men getting tumours of the mouth, tongue, lip and throat has shot up 28% since the mid-90s and women 24%. And doctors blame booze consumption, which has doubled since the 50s - Mirror ​

Horrified pubgoers fled in panic as a man was brutally attacked in a beer garden, police have revealed.Three men were arrested by detectives after David Stevenson, 28, died following the incident at the New Inn, in Sutton, south London.The father-of-two was drinking with his family and girlfriend when he was attacked at about 7.20pm on Sunday - Sky News​

Supermarkets' buy-one-get-one-free offers should be scrapped and replaced with half price offers, ministers have said. The measure would be one way of slashing the amount of food binned in the UK every year - Daily Mail ​

Lord Sugar's support for a national apprenticeship scheme has failed to improve the rate at which young people are placed in work training. Figures from the Conservatives indicate that since the apprenticeships website began in January only one apprentice has been hired for every 25 vacancies - The Times ​

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) today announced five senior appointments, including that of one of the architects of the Government's bailout of the banking sector, as part of a reshuffle at the consumer watchdog. As part of the reshuffle, Alastair Mordaunt, director of mergers, will join Mr Maxwell in the services division. He will lead a new team of competition specialists with a focus on investigating anti-competitive behaviour by banks and other services providers - The Times ​