The government has found more than 3,000 regulations to amend or scrap in a bid to reduce the regulatory burden on small businesses.
Chancellor George Osborne is preparing to announce a spending plan which includes £11.5 billion in cuts for the year 2015/16 in an attempt to bring down the deficit.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office approved Lord Blencathra’s appointment as a paid lobbyist for the Cayman Islands government, despite his role potentially breaching parliament’s code of conduct.
Tens of thousand of protesters surrounded the local government building in Qidong city in China’s Jiansu province, to protest against the construction of a pipeline, which would channel wastewater from a Japanese owned paper mill into the sea.