'Businessmen convert ice van into mobile pub'

The chimes of one ice-cream van will no longer alert children for a cornet - instead, they will lure thirsty adults to a quick, crafty pint. Businessmen Christian Townsley, 35, and 37-year-old John Gyngell have converted the 1970s van into a mobile pub called Mr Frothy. And, using the theme from Rocky as their jingle, they hope to serve beer, wine and bar snacks instead of cornets - Mirror ​

Cambridge University students have provoked an angry response after staging a "sexy circus" themed pub crawl through the city centre. Hundreds of undergraduates paid £10 a time to take part in the event which featured performances of simulated sexual intercourse. Downing shots of vodka and bottles of lager for just £1.50, drunken students were soon vomiting onto pavements as they staggered between venues - Daily Telegraph ​

More than half of companies seeking bank finance over the past year have been turned down, forcing many owners to use credit cards to finance their businesses, according to research published on Tuesday by the Institute of Directors - FT​

Former Miss England Rachel Christie was nicked on suspicion of drink-driving yesterday after a Valentine's night out with her lover. Christie, 21, was with TV Gladiator "Tornado" - real name David McIntosh - when they were stopped near Marble Arch in central London at 1am in a Renault Megane - The Sun ​

"The Government has spent £7million on a series of adverts warning us men are four times more likely to keel over with soaring blood pressure if they have another pint. More likely" than who? Men who only drink one pint? Half a pint? Nothing? Men who live in a yurt and exist on a diet of rainwater and berries? Like the "two or three units a day" safe drinking figures these sound like guesstimates plucked from thin air with no scientific basis at all, writes Sue Carroll in The Mirror ​