Andrew Lansley said it was a scandal NHS patients were not seeing the benefits from research swiftly enough. Photograph: David Graeme-Baker/PA Cancer patients denied new treatments because they are too expensive will now be able to appeal to a £50m government fund to pay for their drugs – a move that experts said would “overturn” [...]

Former Vestas staff are opening a new blade manufacturer on the Isle of Wight. Photograph: Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images Nearly one year after Danish wind giant Vestas closed the UK’s only major turbine plant, a new British blade manufacturer is opening just metres from the old factory. Sureblades, run by a team including three former Vestas [...]

BP’s incoming chief executive Bob Dudley may represent a fresh start but he faces a lot of unfinished business. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters The outgoing chief executive of BP, it seems, cannot get through a public appearance without at least one Hayward-ism. At today’s presentation, when BP disclosed it had set aside bn for the costs [...]