Pub group Mitchells & Butlers yesterday said it had replaced its CEO Alistair Darby with insider Phil Urban as it warned weak trading would push full-year profit to the bottom end of forecasts.

British pub and restaurant owner Mitchells & Butlers is understood to have scrapped plans to expand into Ireland.

British pub group Mitchells & Butlers is understood to be sizing up expansion opportunities across Ireland, with up to six potential locations already thought to have been identified in Cork and Dublin.

Pubs and restaurants firm Mitchells & Butlers today said buoyant food sales were helping the group weather tougher trading conditions this year.

New mum Charlotte Church has revealed how she went into labour in B&Q.