Ministers are poised to publish a draft Bill which would give a new supermarket ombudsman powers to prevent Britain's 10 biggest grocers from bullying their suppliers.

The future of the Tesco Express at the centre of a riot in Bristol last week is to be assessed today.

Sales growth in the grocery market slowed "sharply" last month but the discounters Aldi and Lidl have continued their strong recent recovery.

Lidl and its rival discounter Aldi left the bigger supermarkets lagging behind with double-digit sales growth over the last three months as consumers sought bargains the face of rising prices.

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A man has been arrested after a woman was attacked with a meat cleaver.

A woman who offered a lift to a lost man was subjected to a brutal attack with a meat cleaver, police said.

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A former Afrika Korps soldier, Theo Albrecht was the German entrepreneur behind the discount store Aldi.

Theo Albrecht, the recluse who founded the Aldi discount network with his older brother Karl, died, aged 88, at the weekend. True to the brothers' reputation for secrecy, his death was not announced until yesterday.