Restaurants, cafes, supermarkets and other food outlets will be graded on their hygiene inspection results and expected to display them on their doors or windows under a scheme to be launched next year.

That the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) should declare the government's policy on prisons a failure must carry some weight. In its report, Getting Back on the Straight and Narrow, the CBI points out that at £60bn a year the estimated cost of crime amounts to 5% of the GDP and the cost to businesses is £9bn a year.

Alistair Darling has called a Downing Street summit with Britain's biggest supermarkets over the threat posed to the UK economy by spiralling food prices.

THE fairtrade movement may have begun in the 1960s, but subsequent decades tarred purchasing with grim tales of child labour, sweatshops and exploitation of farmers.

Step up to the plate and show your worth: the credit crunch and the prospect of a longer-term economic slowdown is an opportunity for procurement professionals to show how valuable they are to the rest of the firm, says Roy Ayliffe, the director of professional practice at the CIPS.

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