European judges will rule tomorrow on the legality of a Government decision to complain to the United Nations about the Sellafield nuclear plant.

The Government will continue to pursue every diplomatic and legal avenue to have the Sellafield nuclear power plant shut down, Environment Minister Dick Roche insisted today.

Marks & Spencer should be allowed to deduct some of its foreign losses from its British tax bill, a senior EU court adviser said today in a legal opinion that could cost European governments billions of pounds.