'Drink watchdog set to call time on strongest beer ever brewed in UK'

The strongest beer ever produced in Britain is set to be banned - weeks after a Scottish brewery launched the brew as a "cure" for binge drinking. The Fraserburgh microbrewery BrewDog was condemned as being "utterly irresponsible" by health campaigners three months ago after unveiling plans to market a beer with an alcohol content of 18.2 per cent. But alcohol watchdog the Portman Group is set to ban the beer after its independent complaints panel agreed to provisionally uphold a complaint from Alcohol Focus Scotland that the beer did not promote a positive message of safe and responsible drinking - Scotsman​

Scientists have called for a ban on the sponsorship of sport by the alcohol industry. Writing in the journal Addiction, they say that governments should outlaw the practice based on previous findings that alcohol-industry sponsorship of elite and community sport is associated with hazardous drinking among sport participants - Times ​

British households are pouring £470 million worth of wine down the plughole every year. The figure has been collated for the Waste & Resource Action Programme (Wrap), advisers to the Government, which is urging people to freeze leftover wine and use it in cooking sauces and casseroles as part of the campaign to cut the nation's carbon footprint - Times ​

Visitors to the 2012 London Olympics could be getting a taste of the East End. Council chiefs want traditional food such as jellied eels and pie and mash to to be served up to spectators. And campaigners want the food to be provided by small local businesses - Mirror ​

A pub customer disarmed a gangster gunman despite being shot four times, a court heard yesterday. Winston Anglin, 47, was hit in the belly, shoulder and back. The last bullet ricocheted off his belt - Mirror ​