Gordon Brown has signalled he wants Britain to play a major role in the race to build an extra 1,000 nuclear power stations across the world as part of his vision for ending the global "addiction to oil".

When hauliers blocked the streets of London, Gordon Brown flew to Aberdeen to talk to Britain's oil bosses. Less than a month later, tanker drivers are threatening further chaos and the Prime Minister wants to fly to Saudi Arabia to talk to Opec.

A rift has opened between regulators in Washington and London after the Americans called for restrictions on oil trading in the City.

Woolworths has been fined £350,000 by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for waiting too long to disclose price-sensitive information to the stock market. The fine, relating to an incident in 2005, is the second-biggest of its kind imposed by the regulator.

Britain's most controversial power project, the £1.5bn coal-fired plant at Kingsnorth, faces an uncertain future as a result of a tough greenhouse gas emissions standard that will be proposed by David Cameron next week.

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