A former Oxford don has reportedly been trampled to death by a herd of cows in a field near a village church in England.

Pharmaceutical firm PowderJect today forecasted sales of its flu vaccine in the coming year would jump more than 40% over last year’s figure.

Lloyds TSB and Abbey National are under pressure on the London Stock Exchange after Trade Secretary Stephen Byers referred Lloyds' proposed takeover bid to the Competition Commission.

PowderJect is to start clinical trials of a vaccine to combat hepatitis B as part of its continuing strategic alliance with GlaxoSmithKline.