Make sure you take some ID with you when you want to buy your favourite tipple at the supermarket. Tesco has just announced that it will tighten its procedures by introducing Challenge 25 in May.

Challenge 25 is to be rolled out to all Tesco stores, following in the footsteps of Asda and Morrisons, which have both introduced the policy over the course of the last year in an attempt to stamp out underage sales. Sainsbury's is due to introduce Challenge 25 in September.

Last week, Tesco, who operate a Challenge 21 policy, was fined £6,000 and ordered to pay £250 costs after a Blackpool store admitted it has sold alcohol to children on more than three occasions.

In the UK we currently have the following laws in place regarding the purchase and consumption of alcohol by minors:

• It is illegal to give an alcoholic drink to a child under five except under medical supervision in an emergency.
• It is legal for adults to buy alcohol for children over four to drink in the home.
• At the age of 16, young adults can drink beer, wine or cider with a meal in a restaurant, if it is bought by an adult and they are accompanied by an adult.
• By the time they reach the age of 18, they can buy alcohol and drink it in a pub. They can even hold a licence to sell alcohol.

From 2010, the Identity and Passport Service will begin offering identity cards on a voluntary basis to young people who will benefit from them in their daily lives. Are we going to see students and young professionals rushing to get one of these cards so that they can buy alcohol unchallenged when they go to the supermarket?

Do you believe that our current alcohol laws are outdated? Should our laws be updated to curb underage drinking?

A recent press release from the Food and Drink Federation informed us that "Demand for skilled workers in the food and drink manufacturing sector continues to rise, despite the economic downturn, and FDF believes that recruiting apprentices is a great way to ensure the sector has a skilled workforce for the future. More and more food and drink companies are taking on apprentices, and the industry's sector skills council, Improve, predicts food industry apprentice numbers in England will increase five-fold from just 400 in 2007 to 2,000 in 2012."

Improve has redesigned the apprenticeship framework for the food and drink sector into a single, flexible framework which offers a choice of more than 500 units of assessment covering skills needed in all sectors and all operational areas of the industry. Apprentices can choose to specialise in meat and poultry processing, retail butchery, craft bakery, plant bakery, retail and service support and production control, choosing specific units as they go to make sure they develop the skills needed in their line of work.

The benefits to employers of providing an apprenticeship scheme are obvious. Apprentices learn while they work, so their knowledge is up-to-date. Training is on-the-job and the practical skills apprentices gain are the ones that are right for your business. Government funding is available and employee job satisfaction will increase as they learn new and relevant skills.

The food and drink industry in the UK employs around half a million people. In the current cut-throat market, continual upgrading of employee skills has to be a key priority in order to keep pace with consumers' changing needs, shopping and purchasing patterns and spending habits.

Apprenticeship schemes can meet current demands, but what happens after the training ends? Are employers doing enough to ensure their employees receive continued training and support?

It has long been seen as the enemy of clear skin, but eating chocolate could prove more effective than beauty products at banishing spots, it is claimed.

Acne Care chocolate bars, which are about to hit UK shelves, are said to deliver antioxidants and micro-nutrients that help clear the skin.

US Acne Care manufacturer Frutels recommends consumers take between two and five chocolate doses per day to see results in two weeks or less.

Meanwhile Dr. David Walker, a GP in Lanarkshire recently called for a tax on products containing chocolate saying "There is an explosion of obesity and the related medical conditions, like type 2 diabetes. I see chocolate as a major player in this, and I think a tax on products containing chocolate could make a real difference."

Dr Walker said that a 225g bag of chocolate sweets contained almost 1,200 calories - almost half the recommended daily calorie intake for a man - and could be eaten incredibly quickly.

So do you think Acne Care chocolate bars will catch on in the UK? Or are we sensible enough to realise that acne is not a life threatening disease whereas obesity is?

Are you fed up with the cold British winter? Tired of paying taxes? Would you like your children to receive a high standard of education at no cost to yourself?

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Of course, nobody wants to spend all of their time in the compound, so what's life like outside?

Saudi has modern shopping malls where you can find stores like H&M, Harvey Nichols, Marks and Spencer and Next and many of the supermarkets carry a wide range of western goods.

The local food is often strongly flavoured and spicy. The most common meats are lamb and chicken, beef is rare and pork is proscribed under Islamic law. The larger towns have restaurants serving international cuisine and if the kids are craving for junk food, there's always McDonald's or KFC.

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Britain's two biggest supermarkets warned on Thursday that proposals to strengthen the code of practice governing relations between food retailers and suppliers would only increase the regulatory burden and costs on the sector. The revised code will encompass all retailers with turnovers of more than £1bn.

Tesco said the new plans would "add substantial costs to an industry that is generally working well for the consumer". Whilst Asda complained that the regulator was burdening retailers with "unnecessary red tape". It also expressed concern that the code would put further pressure on consumers. "The commission in its own report a year ago admitted the introduction of this code will lead to price increases for customers," said Asda. "In the middle of a recession this seems a perverse path to follow."

The comments came after the commission published a draft order for consultation over its plans to change the supplier code, which it promised to alter last year following a two-year investigation into the £125bn-a-year ($178bn) grocery market.

It intends to prevent retailers from retrospectively changing contract terms and to limit the extent to which suppliers are required to pay for listings, promotions, inaccurate forecasts or customer complaints. It would also make it harder for retailers to de-list suppliers through a tighter procedural code.

The regulator also told retailers that they would be required to keep all written records of agreements with suppliers, including small changes to terms.

Tesco said the commission's insistence that all minor changes to contracts would have to be agreed in writing was unnecessary and would have a knock-on effect of making Tesco send an additional 2m e-mails a year just to confirm minor changes.

But how will this be implemented? "A strengthened code will only work if it is accompanied by a robust and proactive enforcement mechanism," said a spokesman for the National Farmers' Union.

The commission said it will be consulting publicly in the next couple of weeks on the establishment of an ombudsman. However, the body does not have the power to establish an ombudsman itself and will have to gain agreement from the major retailers or refer the issue to the Government.

Since the major retailers are already complaining about the code, they are hardly likely to give their agreement. And if the matter is referred to the government, how long would it be before an enforcement officer was put in place?