Oil floats on the surface of the water near a controlled burn above BP’s Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. Photograph: Ann Heisenfelt/EPA BP ordered the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig, whose explosion led to the worst environmental disaster in US history, to overhaul... 

SEO search engine optimization is essential if you want your website to attract traffic. A lack of good SEO and optimization of your web pages to attract the attention of search engine spiders can be deadly to the success of an online business. By far the best traffic to get is free traffic, and unless you are... 

Labour leadership contender Ed Balls and his wife, Yvette Cooper. Photograph: Rex Features Ed Balls, one of the Labour leadership contenders, has suggested it may be “uncomfortable” for audiences to watch brothers David and Ed Miliband battling to succeed Gordon Brown as the party’s... 

No 10 denied ministers had acted improperly over the cancelled loan to Sheffield Forgemasters. Photograph: John Giles/Press Association The government was forced last night to deal with its first sleaze row since the general election when secret Whitehall documents showed a Tory donor successfully... 

Don Headey packed enough interest for 10 people into his life – all underpinned by his Christian faith. Our father, Don Headey, who has died aged 88, packed enough interests for 10 people into his life. Beekeeping, organic gardening, scouting, puppetry and pottery were a few of them, all...