A firm seeking approval for a cross-Channel power cable says donations to the Tory party will have "no political influence" over the government's decision.
The US Supreme Court has declined to hear Johnson & Johnson's appeal against a $2.12bn (£1.5bn) damages award to women who say they developed ovarian cancer from using the company's talc products.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced a "slight slowing down" in the lifting of lockdown rules for much of Scotland amid the spread of the Indian variant of coronavirus.