Despite an overall improved performance, Kenya's tea industry, the world's largest exporter, is grappling with global overproduction and a strengthening shilling, leading analysts to advise investors to dig in for the long term.

Chart round-up: not much brewing

This morning I skipped breakfast because I couldn't be arsed, then I stole two currant shortcake biscuits from the office cupboard and had them with a nice cup of tea while I checked Myspace, where an empty inbox greeted me like a slap in the face. If I could take my tea from a vessel of my choosing it would undoubtedly be the one pictured right, offering as it does the advantage of ample snack storage facilities, but you can't always get what you want. What did you have for breakfast this morning?

Which brings us nicely to this week's chart rundown, where there's a twinkle in Sean Kingston's eye as he spends a fifth week atop the single charts, the stirrings of a title assault on Rihanna's ten-week crown perhaps in evidence. Babyshambles ghost in at six with 'Delivery', and without wishing to give the game away, if I were to describe forthcoming album Shotter's Nation using an adjective, as is the fashion nowadays, I could prefix said adjective with the word ‘very' and end up with an apt summary of its overall quality.