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The BBC's business editor asks how Labour can be trusted after its drops its opposition to lifting the cap on bankers’ bonuses.

A government spokesperson said the new plant is "not a government project" and as such "any additional costs or schedule overruns are the responsibility of EDF and its partners and will in no way fall on taxpayers". The government has also just doubled its own investment into Sizewell C to £2.5bn and is in the…

EDF says final costs could soar by about a third as it faces a delayed completion date.

The salary and the bonuses of those executives. now, leading tax lawyer dan neidle, said to me, hes from tax policy associates, if a public company had done this, or a private plc had done this, then the shareholders would be asking for the heads of their senior executives on a platter. simon jack reporting there. meanwhile, the minister responsible for the post office, kevin hollinrake, says he wants people to be jailed over the horizon it scandal. were joined now by our political correspondent...

The post office might owe over £100 million in unpaid tax. in effect, government will have to step in and support it as it has in the past but there is another dimension to this point whereas they have included those payments out when it comes to reporting profits, they have stripped them out when it comes to executive pay and bonuses, ignoring those payments which means they have been boosting the salary and bonuses of those executives opened a leading lawyer said to me, he from tax policy ass...

The champion of the new, the undiscovered, from day one annie nightingale said "i chose the records i wanted to play and stuck to it ever since." annie nightingale, whos died at the age of 83. the post office may have underpaid over £100 million in tax while overpaying its senior executives, according to leading tax experts. our business editor, simonjack, is here. and this is linked to payments the post office made to victims of the horizon it scandal? thats exactly right, yes. what they have ...

Because, say the post office, these systems are incredibly complicated — take years to design and build and cant be easily replaced. if you switched off horizon, you would bring the post office network to a standstill. so far, fujitsu has not paid anything in compensation and in their most recent accounts barely mention horizon as a risk to their business, and have set no money aside. despite this nearly 30 year fiasco, in the last ten years, the government has awarded fujitsu 191 contracts wo...

The American former media executive helming the controversial Abu Dhabi-backed bid for the Telegraph and Spectator titles has described RedBird IMI as being “a little bit smarter than some of our competitors” in its approach to the sale.

The Abu Dhabi-backed fund bidding for The Daily Telegraph has delayed plans for a BBC interview setting out its blueprint for preserving editorial independence at the newspaper.RedBird IMI recently

We have strange ways of marking the festive season. In Cornwall, wassailers bang pots and bless the trees with cider. In Stonehaven, the streets are filled with fireballs. And in another peculiar folk tradition, Radio 4 hands the reins of the Today programme to “guest editors”. Between Christmas and New Year’s Day, those trusted with shaping the news agenda included ex-Top Gear presenter James May and pop star Ellie Goulding.