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Wednesday 6 January 2010 - the plan so far

Sarah McDermott |11:35 UK time, Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Lord Mandelson will try to reassure the markets ministers are not divided over cutting the UK's £178bn budget deficit.

He is expected to say in a speech that the government recognises there are limits to how high taxes on firms and top earners can go. Jeremy Paxman will be speaking to the business secretary later.

As snowfall causes more disruption across the country, our Science editor Susan Watts is working on a piece about weather modelling.

And we have a Peter Marshall investigation into fundamental doubts about the key piece of evidence which convicted the Lockerbie bomber.

More later.

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