The makers of two of Britain's best-selling soft drinks, Lucozade and Irn-Bru, have been forced to warn parents that the drinks may cause hyperactivity. A newly introduced EU law compels both drinks to display a warning that they contain artificial colours linked to behavioural problems in young children.

An Indian policeman gripped by jealousy strangled his young wife just two weeks after he arrived in Britain to live with her, a court heard today.

"That it is possible to charge for content on the web is obvious from the Wall Street Journal's experience." Rupert Murdoch paves the way for his British papers to start doing the same.

Into battle with the history boys

The internet cafe where Abdulla Ahmed Ali sat down in front of a screen shortly before midday on 6 August 2006 was much like any of the hundreds of small communications shops that dot north-east London. T&I Telecom in Walthamstow offered the usual range of mobile phone top-up cards, cheap international calls and handsets alongside its row of pay-as-you-go internet terminals.

A shock profit warning from GlaxoSmithKline sent its shares plummeting yesterday after the drug giant said "the shadow of Avandia would continue to make life difficult" in 2008.

Jason Byrne tomorrow, Tue, Wed & Thur Nottingham, Leicester, Birmingham & Derby

IT'S THAT delicate, fuzzy, desolate time of year again. The time when the unpleasant after-effects of overindulgence lead even the most hardened party-goer to reach for hangover cures with a trembling and palsied hand.

So you thought Sunny Delight was good for the children and they loved it? You know life isn't like that.

Yesterday I began the first volume of my autobiography - My Life in Beer. An evening among the tankard-bearing hayseeds gathered in Olympia for the Great British Beer Festival set me off, though in truth we go back a long way, beer and I. Or at least lager and I do. But you can't call your autobiography My Life in Lager. It sounds too much like the story of a South African internment. Which would be to overstate my suffering.

`Come and visit me and bring me something decent to drink,' begged my aunt

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HEINZ BABY FOOD:

SOFT-DRINK cans contaminated with chemicals that made more than 100 Belgians sick could be on sale in Britain, Coca-Cola admitted.