3.49pm: British Airways has cancelled all long-haul flights from Heathrow which were due to depart before 7pm tonight.
Government proposals for a statutory register of lobbyists, which were due to be published last month, are expected after Christmas.
Administration officials declined to comment on the proposals, which were due to be formally unveiled as early as Wednesday.
Liberty House buys Tata Steel's two Lanarkshire steel mills, which were due to be mothballed, in a deal brokered by the Scottish government.
Among the papers which were due to be released under the 30-year rule are thought to be a number concerning the Miami Showband Massacre.
Malawi and Botswana, which were due to enter visually impaired runners, pulled their teams out just hours before the opening ceremony on Wednesday.
Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), which operates Southern trains, said it would press ahead with planned changes to staff roles, which were due to start being implemented next week.
Part of the virtual windfall will be spent on cancelling the tax credit cuts, which were due to save more than £4bn a year.
On Wednesday the US suspended plans to attend the talks, which were due to begin in Doha, the capital of Qatar, this week.
In 1999, a large group of legislators argued that the anti-scalping laws, which were due to expire that year, focused too much attention on low-level scalping.
Last week Shell Nigeria said: "SPDC accepts responsibility under the Oil Pipelines Act for the two oil spills both of which were due to equipment failure.
