Britain's Environment Agency thinks the word "drought" is too blunt. It worries that people might quibble with the accuracy of the expression when they need to be rescued from their houses by boat during a hosepipe ban.

As often there was more theatre than important decision taking at the G8 summit. There were plenty of pictures of how the leaders dressed, under instruction from the US President to dress down for the occasion. There was a well spun plot of how Germany was isolated, under pressure from all the others to pay more of the bills for past Euro parties.

The Green Deal is the Government’s grand plan to get us all more energy efficient, thus reducing our fuel bills and more importantly, carbon emissions.

The case of Re: XB (Court of Protection) has come before Theis J, sitting as a Court of Protection judge, as an application from an NHS Trust who challenged the validity of an advance decision to refuse life-sustaining treatment....

We’ve had a huge number of requests for an update on our thoughts on what’s going on in Europe. Attention has suddenly focused on deposit flight and the risk of bank runs in the Eurozone.