25/08/2009 - Tesco plans to work around weather - A special team at supermarket giant Tesco are to embark on a new shelf-stocking initiative aimed at matching the right products with the weather.
25/08/2009 - DSA reveals lorry driver exams plan - The Driving Standards Agency (DSA) has unveiled plans for a new qualification for all professional lorry drivers - known as the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC).
24/08/2009 - Police investigate shops raid link - Police are investigating a possible link between an overnight burglary in Bushmills and break-ins at two gift shops at the Giants Causeway.
24/08/2009 - Shoplifting is 'being ignored' - Shoplifting being judged as a "victimless" crime is posing more of a problem for shopkeepers than armed robbery, a retail expert has revealed.
21/08/2009 - Takeaway overrun by cockroaches - A takeaway business in Slough has been shut down and its owner forced to pay almost £14,000 in fines after health and safety inspectors found the restaurant crawling with cockroaches.
21/08/2009 - New gas analyser to protect worker - A Stokesley-based firm has developed a device to safeguard hospitality workers who deal with potentially fatal gases from beer and soft drinks systems.
18/08/2009 - Pretty staff put women off - study - Female shoppers can be put off buying a product if they perceive the shop assistant to be more attractive than them, an academic study has found.
17/08/2009 - Fewer buy-to-let mortgagee arrears - There has been a sharp fall in the number of buy-to-let landlords in mortgage arrears, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).
14/08/2009 - Student fined over nightclub damage - A student from Cambridge who caused £150,000 worth damage to a London nightclub in an "alcohol-fuelled act of buffoonery" has been fined by a judge.
14/08/2009 - Adult show at restaurant continues - An Indian restaurant where the food was not the only hot and spicy thing on the menu has been allowed to stay open, providing it puts bouncers on the door.
13/08/2009 - Tourism 'poorly regarded' in UK - Tourism in the UK is slipping further behind international competitors and not reaching its full potential, according to a report.
10/08/2009 - Jewellery thieves arrived in taxi - Two smartly-dressed men arrived by taxi at one of central London's prestigious jewellers and then took a woman hostage before releasing her and escaping with handfuls of jewels.
10/08/2009 - Shoppers not receiving bought goods - Research has found 10% of shoppers, equivalent to 1.8 million people, have not received goods or services that have been paid for in advance during the past two years.
05/08/2009 - Pub-fall victim wins compensation - A woman has been awarded £18,000 compensation after she broke her leg when her stiletto heel got caught in a pub's poorly-lit smoking area.
04/08/2009 - Real ale brews renewed popularity - Almost one in three women drink real ale, a figure that is almost double the that recorded last year, a Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) survey has revealed.
04/08/2009 - Two in hospital following outbreak - A fish and chip shop in Wrexham is at the centre of a suspected E.coli outbreak after a mother and her three-year-old girl contracted the bug.
03/08/2009 - Childcare safety records inadequate - A review of the security procedures put in place by childminders and nurseries found a third were not good enough at keeping children safe, inspectors have warned.
03/08/2009 - Earl serves shop owner legal bill - A wrangle over the name of a shop in Aberdeen has seen its owner slapped with a legal bill for thousands of pounds by descendants of the aristocrat said to have invented the sandwich.
