Top stories in the latest issue:

HOME STRETCH
The new government has a chance to put an end to the financial free-for-all that is the children's social care services market.

PITCHER OVERBOARD?
Why Helen Pitcher is on borrowed time as part-time chair and public face of the failing Criminal Cases Review Commission.

PAPER WAIT
Six months after a review of the Teesside regeneration called for a renegotiation of a cosy deal for two local businessmen, very little has changed.

TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS
A dodgy biotech company has finally been sanctioned by regulators four years after it put heart patients' safety at serious risk in an aborted treatment trial.

POST-MAN PAT
Labour's Pat McFadden and various Lib Dem ex-ministers had a tough time justifying their historical inaction at the Post Office inquiry.

SHADY RETREAT
A litigious solar panel company has abandoned its remaining libel case against one of its own customers, in a humiliating climbdown.

CROSSING SWORDS
Shipbuilder Ferguson Marine has pledged to "bid aggressively" for a contract for seven small ferries, having missed out on being directly awarded the deal.

VETTING PROCESS
After a pandemic puppy breeding boom led to a rise in demand for canine fertility clinics, the gold rush may be coming to an end.