'Not all pub operators are toasting the sector's revival'

A poster plastered outside the JD Wetherspoon in Denmark Hill, South London, gives a good idea of why fortunes are diverging in the UK pub sector.The poster compares the prices of 10 drinks sold inside against those offered at nearby pubs, including one that is owned by Enterprise Inns - Financial Times​

Punch Taverns, Britain's biggest pub owner, reported a drop in earnings after it was forced to offer rent concessions and cheaper beer to tenants to keep them in business during the recession. However, Giles Thorley, Punch's chief executive who will step down this summer, said the business has seen "small green shoots," with 40pc fewer tenants having to give up their pubs than this time last year, and financial support for tenants stabilising at £2m a month - Telegraph​

The all-day drinking culture has made law-abiding citizens afraid to enter Britain's "menacing and dangerous" town centres, a judge has said, as he jailed a teenager for killing a stranger who tried to break up a fight. William Upton was just 16 yet had been given a string of warnings by police about his drunken behaviour - Telegraph​

Red wine can add "protects the brain from damage following a stroke" to its list of health benefits following a new discovery by researchers at Johns Hopkins University. On April 21, Johns Hopkins announced that Sylvain Doré, PhD and a team of researchers "discovered a pathway in mice for resveratrol's apparent protective effect" - The Independent​