1/ Firms move production back to UK (BBC news) based on a new report from the Engineering Employers Federation

2/ Japan pledges to end economic spiral (The Times) - The ten-year plan would see Japan shift some of the focus of its giant economy, with new emphasis placed on environmental technology, science, tourism and medical care.

3/ Economics emerges from the rubble in fragile state (Larry Elliot in the Guardian)

4/ Freakonomics meets More or Less (BBC Radio 4) - Tim Harford gets together with Steve Levitt for a special edition of the excellent Radio 4 programme

5/ Counting the cost of high speed trains (BBC Global Business) - how large are the economic and environmental benefits of investment in new high speed trains?