Thousands of shops, restaurants and cafés will be forced to register their staff with a new child protection agency and have their criminal records checked if they employ children for weekend or summer holiday work.

Thousands more foreign lorries will be attracted to Britain's roads by a European plan to give them freedom to compete with domestic hauliers. Supermarket chains that use British lorries to transport goods between depots and stores are among the businesses that will be able to cut costs by using foreign companies.

British oil giant BP, Tony Hayward and Lord Browne of Madingley have been named in a multi-million dollar lawsuit involving allegations of bribery of government officials in Kazakhstan.

The world's banking industry is so determined to avoid tighter regulation that a committee of leading bankers has produced a report laying bare their own failures and proposing action to restore confidence.

Mars is appealing to Indonesia's supreme court to overturn two lower court verdicts in which the chocolate bar maker was fined $6.4m for breaching its distributor's contract.

Food safety watchdogs are expected to call today for a ban on six artificial food colourings which have been linked to hyperactivity in children.

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