The Charity Commission has received 280 applications for the four or five vacant posts on its board, including several from "politically active people".

The Social Investment Business Group has acquired five new board members, including an MP, as it enters its second decade of social investment.

The UK has today announced £50m in new funding to support those affected by the Syrian refugee crisis, bringing the total funding pledged to £139.5m.

The Charity Commission is "looking into" concerns over the sale by the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain of its historic headquarters in London, which was resold months later for more than three times the value under mysterious circumstances.