Michael Moritz and his wife, Harriet Heyman, fund £11,000 scholarships to help students from low-income families

The government and the House of Representatives heralded a new era of greater access to university education with the passage on Friday of the bill on higher education, but students across the country greeted the new legislation with protests.

Eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution believed to be the likely cause.

Farmers seek to assert and protect their right to grow organic crops without the threat of contamination by Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds.