Cough and cold remedies for young children are being taken off the shelves today due to fears of accidental overdose.Six products specifically marketed for use on under-twos are being permanently removed from sale on the orders of medicines regulator the MHRA.

The German discount supermarket chain Lidl has been accused of spying on its employees, including recording how many times they went to the toilet as well as details about their love lives, personal finances and menstrual cycles.An investigation by the German news magazine Stern uncovered an extensive espionage system in its shops across Germany.

A small British company that pioneered the idea of individuals and companies "offsetting" their climate change emissions has been bought by JP Morgan, one of the world's largest financial organisations.

Royal Dutch Shell is working on a process to turn sugars into a synthetic petrol, rather than ethanol, with the aim of moving to a commercial demonstration plant in two years' time.Europe's biggest oil company yesterday announced a joint venture with Virent, a US biotech business based in Wisconsin, saying that results from early research over the past year had been better than expected in terms of costs and yields.

Britain’s games industry is intensifying calls for the government to grant tax breaks to help prevent a brain drain to Canada after SCi, the UK’s largest games publisher, became the latest company to shift production across the Atlantic.Earlier this month SCi, owner of the Lara Croft Tomb Raider franchise, announced plans to cut 25 per cent of staff, mostly in the UK, while increasing investment in Canada.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is big business. Its practitioners say it is increasingly driving big business and shaping companies’ marketing, communications, new product development, and reputations. The number and status of the people working in the “profession” continues to rise steeply and with the growing importance of issues such as climate change, arguably it has never been so much in the spotlight.

Former John Lewis chairman, Sir Stuart Hampson, has become a patron for HFT, national charity for people with learning disabilities.

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