Students hold on to their hats after graduating from Birmingham University. The CBI suggests top graduates could leave the UK if they are charged for their degrees according to how much they earn. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Tens of thousands of the UK’s best graduates would emigrate if ministers went ahead with plans to charge [...]

Justin King, the chief executive of Sainsbury’s, has been appointed to David Cameron’s special advisory committee. Photograph Sarah Lee for the Guardian David Cameron has assembled an advisory committee of about a dozen business leaders, including Justin King, the chief executive of Sainsbury’s; the ad man Sir Martin Sorrell and Sir Michael Rake, chairman of [...]

BP’s oil well in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on 20 April. Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex Features BP said today it is a fortnight away from sealing the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico for good, as it revealed that the bill for containing and cleaning up the oil spill – the [...]