Jack Straw, has admitted that the fate of the convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi had formed part of Britain's negotiations with Libya over a multi-billion pound deal for oil exploration.

The way of the future is electric cars, as Alastair Sloane finds out.

Profits at New Zealand's largest energy distributor, Vector, have risen 16.3 per cent, but the recession means growth in new connections has slowed and volumes are down.

The Government has set a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target of between 10 per cent and 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.