Consumers booking a range of items from cinema tickets to hotel rooms now have new protection from card surcharges.

Plans to strip some English councils of their role in the adoption process would be a "reckless gamble", the Local Government Association says.

Britain will become a net importer of wheat for the first time in a decade this year because of bad weather, the National Farmers' Union says.

Axminster Carpets is to begin trading again after a deal was made to save the company and secure about 100 jobs.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is discharged from hospital after 10 days of treatment for pneumonia, the government says.

Two landlords who were trapped in their pubs by snow - one of them for five days - are among Derbyshire traders counting the cost of the Easter blizzard.

A council defends its warning signs on the guided busway after a Yorkshire lorry driver says his sat-nav system sent him on to the route.

The cut in the top rate of income tax from 50 pence in the pound to 45 pence comes into effect, as does the so-called 'granny tax'.