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The Kings Fund commission into social care and health funding is being published today but will it deliver the promised radical solutions?

Pacer trains have been operating mainly in the North of England for the past 30 years, they've not improved with age and are none too popular with rail travellers, but it looks as if passengers may have to put up with them for a while longer. In a commons debate earlier this year the then railways minister Stephen Hammond told MPs that the government expects bidders for northern franchises to propose getting rid of Pacers. But leasing new trains would cost 20 millon pounds in subsidies from the Government, so that might be easier said than done.

It's almost a year since Karren Brady was appointed as the Governments Small Business Ambassador. We ask her what she's achieved and what still needs to be done to help SME's.

There's been a big rise in the number of passengers flying with low-fare airlines easyJet and Ryanair. More than 64 million passengers travelled with easyJet in the 12 months to the end of August, a 6.4 per cent rise on the previous year. Ryanair had more than 83 million passengers - a 4 per cent increase. So what's brought about the rise at Europe's biggest budget airline. Chief executive Michael O'Leary told shareholders a year ago that Ryanair needed to stop doing things that unnecessarily annoy customers.

Citizens Advice is celebrating its 75th birthday today. What has changed in the eight decades since they have been providing advice.

A government review of the UK's food supply network has uncovered "strong indications" of crime with regulators inspecting food businesses allegedly being threatened by criminals. The report - which was published this morning - says our supply systems are among the safest in the world but warns that much less attention has been focussed on food authenticity, fraud and organised crime. It's calling for the establishment of a dedicated Food Crime Unit to improve things. The report was commissioned after the horsemeat scandal and was written by Professor Chris Elliott.