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A profit warning by B&Q owner Kingfisher and robust trading figures from Ocado provided the main interest in the FTSE 100 today.

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as Brent crude hits 10-month high and CBI puts annual meeting on hold amid financial woes

Excise officials seize 74,678 boxes of Kingfisher beer from Mysuru plant after finding it "unfit for human consumption". An FIR has been registered against the manufacturers for violating guidelines. Value of seized beer estimated to be around ₹25 crore. No complaint received, sediments found after few days.

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Breweries manufacturing beer have to provide samples from every batch. Chemists in the Excise Department run tests to check whether the liquor is safe for consumption. In the batch bottled on July 15, there was some variation in yeast, which may have resulted in formation of sediments. As a result,…

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Kingfisher said that trading in the first quarter remained stable but blamed wet weather for lower sales of items like garden furniture

But the retailer doesn’t seem to be suffering from an inflation-induced pullback on spend

The average Brit currently uses a whopping 144 litres of water a DAY - enough to fill more than four large wheelie bins each week

The average Brit could fill four large wheelie bins a week with the amount of water they use - but predict they use less than half of their actual amount