The postal watchdog agrees to Jersey Post's application to suspend mail deliveries on 27 December.

A new admissions code for England aims to close loopholes that have allowed some schools to select by the back door.

The full text of a letter sent by the Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick to the home secretary answering a number of questions about the search of Damian Green's Common's office:

A scheme aimed at speeding up the planning process in Northern Ireland could be in all council areas by next spring.

A Filipino woman wins an 18-month fight for a work permit, but her application for a visa is then refused.

Applications for government crisis loans, for people on low-incomes, rose by a third in the last year, say the Lib Dems.

The Archbishop of York criticises "unmerciful" immigration policies and outspoken minister Phil Woolas.

A private company is hired at a cost of £53,000 to help a council clear a backlog of 250 planning applications.

Thousands more students than previously thought are still waiting for their education maintenance allowance.

The number of applications for children to be taken into care in England has risen sharply following the case of Baby P, a government agency says.

Oxford and Cambridge give the engineering Diploma a boost by saying they will accept the qualification in applications.

A full planning application is submitted by Sainsbury's to build a new store in the Scottish Borders.

The makers of the anti-impotence drug Viagra have withdrawn an application for the medicine to be available without a prescription.

Victims of violent crime are hampered in making compensation claims by excessive bureaucracy and complex application forms, say MPs.

Liberata, the company behind severe delays in students' education maintenance allowances, has lost its contract to Capita.

Net immigration to the UK increased by 46,000 in 2007 to 237,000, according to official statistics.

Around 300,000 visas giving people the right to come to Britain may be wrongly approved every year, MPs are told.

The firm that delivers the delay-hit education maintenance allowance is about to lose its contract.

A mortgage broker who tried to defraud insurance firms of more than £250,000 has been banned by the Financial Services Authority.

The head of Belfast International Airport calls for an inquiry into an application for a runway extension at a rival airport.