News Headlines - 24 March 2012

▽Big Ben could be renamed Elizabeth Tower after the Queen - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/23/big-ben-renamed-queens-jubilee?newsfeed=true
A group of MPs is calling for the tower housing Big Ben to be renamed in honour of the Queen, sparking horror from republicans who accuse them of championing a "crass and profoundly inappropriate" change to the Houses of Parliament.

▽Coalition to set minimum alcohol price - The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/mar/23/coalition-minimum-alcohol-price-40p?newsfeed=true
David Cameron will risk the wrath of the drinks industry and free marketeers today by announcing his government is to introduce legislation setting a minimum alcohol price of 40p a unit in England – enough to add ￡135 to the annual bill of a heavy drinker.

▽Petrol prices hit another record high - BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17490088
Petrol prices have hit another record, according to industry analysts Experian Catalist.
The average price of a litre of unleaded petrol hit 140.20 pence.

▽Ex-banker in coma after gun attack - Financial Times
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/98516b10-7515-11e1-90d1-00144feab49a.html#axzz1q2gsW1wv
A former Russian banker is in a critical condition in hospital after being shot several times with what may have been a submachinegun in London.

▽Toulouse siege: first images inside Mohamed Merah's bullet-scarred flat released - Telegraph.co.uk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9164492/Toulouse-siege-first-images-inside-Mohamed-Merahs-bullet-scarred-flat-released.html
The first glimpse of the inside of his flat after the shoot-out has now emerged, showing the devastating damage caused by the exchanges of fire that ended with Merah being killed.