London, Sept18 : A Swiss gourmet chef has caused a stir with his plan to use human milk in a variety of dishes.

Owner of the Storchen restaurant in the exclusive Winterthur resort, Hans Locher said that he will improve his menu with local specialities such as meat stew and various soups and sauces containing at least 75 per cent of mother''s milk.

"We have all been raised on it. Why should we not include it into our diet?" Telegraph quoted Locher, as saying.

Locher attracted the attention of the leading media of the German-speaking world this week after he posted ads looking for women donors, who will receive just over three pounds for 14 ounces of their milk.

London, September 18: Engineers have fixed the glitches in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and the machine is all set to start smashing its first particles together early next week.

The LHC circulates particles in a 17-mile circumference underground tunnel straddling the French-Swiss border at The European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva, Switzerland, known by the acronym CERN.

London - Lloyds Bank in Britain has agreed to a merger with the country's biggest mortgage lender, HBOS, creating a banking giant that will dominate the savings and mortgage markets, the BBC reported late Wednesday.

The boards of the two banks agreed to the deal after crisis talks in London, at a price of 232 pence per HBOS share, valuating the mortgage lender at 12 billion pounds (21 billion dollars).

London - Lloyds Bank in Britain has agreed to a merger with the country's biggest mortgage lender, HBOS, creating a banking giant that will dominate the savings and mortgage markets, the BBC reported late Wednesday.

The boards of the two banks agreed to the deal after crisis talks in London, at a price of 232 pence per HBOS share, valuating the mortgage lender at 12 billion pounds (21 billion dollars).

London  - Lloyds Bank in Britain has agreed to a merger deal with the country's biggest mortgage lender, HBOS, creating a banking giant that will dominate the savings and mortgage market, the BBC reported late Wednesday.

The boards of the two banks agreed to the deal after crisis talks in London, at a price of 232 pence per HBOS share, valuing the mortgage lender at 12 billion pounds (21 billion dollars).

The deal was due to be officially announced Thursday.

London - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday dismissed growing unrest over his leadership within the ruling Labour Party by saying he was focusing on the bigger issues posed by the current economic challenges.

"What the prime minister is doing is focusing on the big issues facing the country and by far the biggest issue facing the country at the moment is the situation in the financial markets," his spokesman said.

The comment came after days of speculation that so-called Labour rebels would challenge Brown's leadership at the party's annual conference in Manchester next week.