Corporate social responsibility is now being encouraged by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

USB 3.1 will be backwards compatible with both USB 2.0 and 3.0

More than 150 jobs were axed today after a rail repairs and refurbishment company went into administration, with hundreds more workers facing redundancy, unions said.

The organs are made in the laboratory in the hope of using them to replace the damaged or missing body parts of patients

A Tornado jet has had to make an emergency landing at a Scottish airport after a bird strike.

The Crossrail and High Speed Two (HS2) mega-projects could be “thousands” of engineers short during peak periods of construction, a leading recruitment firm to both infrastructure projects has warned.

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Janet Hogarth graduated with a First in philosophy from Oxford in the 1890s and became the Bank of England's first female employee. She was given the task of counting cancelled bank notes – a job which entailed six months' training (learning to count, presumably). She eventually moved on, she wrote, "dying of boredom", and worked on Encyclopaedia Brittanica.

His invention forms basis of how information is shared online today

Andy Batty, 48,  was helping his daughter, Catherine, 17, ride her pony

Roger Moore's Bond would raise an enraged eyebrow, Daniel Craig's would break someone's windpipe, George Lazenby's would blub like a baby. Yet more foreigners are riding roughshod over Aston Martin.

Resplendent in a short-sleeved baby blue suit and pink tie, Steve Coogan walked in to Norwich's Hollywood cinema last night as the character - Alan Partridge - that remains his best loved comic creation. But did Alpha Papa, the Radio DJ and presenter's film debut, live up to expectations?

Outlook: The microchip designer Arm Holdings is such a fabulous success story one almost has to pinch oneself to believe it is British. Yesterday it reported that more than 2 billion iPhones, iPads, smart TVs and other devices containing its chips had been shipped around the world in the past three months alone. At a time when few companies are reporting serious revenue growth (see Glaxo's 2 per cent above), Arm's were up 24 per cent in the quarter at $264m (£172m).

A new multimillion-pound contract for the maintenance of British troops' battlefield radios will secure hundreds of defence jobs across the country, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced.