By Matthew Champion. Chocolate maker Cadbury is under pressure to accept a £10.2 billion takeover offer from Kraft after the US food giant pledged to keep open a factory earmarked for closure. Cadbury said on Monday the unsolicited offer "fundamentally undervalues" the group, but shares leapt by up to 37 per cent in early trading [...]

By Lewis Bazley. More new-born children should be taken into care stop irreparable damage from poor parenting, according to the boss of a children’s charity. Martin Narey, chief executive of Barnardo’s, said there should be less emphasis on "fixing families that can’t be fixed" and greater efforts from social workers to take at risk children [...]

By Lewis Bazley. Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, could be invited to appear on Question Time, the BBC has confirmed. A spokesman said the broadcaster was bound by rules to treat representatives of all political parties with "due impartiality". No representatives of the far-right party – which was elected to the [...]