in brief

High Holborn denial

Dominique Couillaud, general manager of London's one-Michelin-starred High Holborn restaurant, which opened last year, has denied a report in Harpers, the wine and spirit magazine, that it is for sale. The restaurant is run by David Cavalier and owned by Shaun Wilson and Robbie O'Neill.

Scots Tourism plan

Visitscotland, the former Scottish Tourist Board, has hatched an eight-point plan to help the country's tourism trade generate £3.1b by 2005. It will be interviewing chief executive candidates later this month.

Ryan deal

Ryan Hotels is selling the Royal Marine hotel, Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, to property developer William Neville & Sons in a sale-and-leaseback deal worth €22.22m (£13.85m). It will rent it back for i984,000 (£613,000) a year on a two-and-a-half-year lease.

Waste banned

The Government has announced a ban on the feeding of catering waste that contains, or has had contact with, meat as swill to livestock. The ban takes effect from 24 May.

QMH warning

Queens Moat Houses has warned that a deterioration in trading conditions over the past two months will affect its full-year profits. It blamed foot-and-mouth and the economic slowdown.