HMRC will send out letters to affected people over the next few months HM Revenue & Customs sent out the first batch of letters today informing tens of thousands of people that, because of mistakes it made in tax coding, they have underpaid tax and will now have to pay extra – in some... 

Lord McNally is seeking to reform privacy law – but it won’t be an easy job. Photograph: Ian Nicholson/PA What is there to say in the matter of ZXC and BNM? Precisely nothing, of course. ZXC is the second England footballer in a week to win a gagging injunction against a BNM sort of... 

Boats tackle the blaze on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico which exploded on 21 April. Photograph: KPA/Zuma/Rex Features BP is expected to admit today that it was partly to blame for the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but will also claim that other companies must accept some... 

The wildfires burning all over central Russia have destroyed millions of hectares of crops. Photograph: Maxim Shipenkov/EPA Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has announced a ban on grain exports after millions of hectares of crops perished in the worst drought in more than a century. High...