Financial News
Workplace pension scheme membership at lowest level since 1997
By Laura Moulden Workplace pension scheme membership is at its lowest level since 1997, ...
Manchester child poverty levels ‘worst in UK’
By Gerald Heneghan Manchester has been named the worst parliamentary constituency for child poverty ...
TUC: Living standards must be defining issue in next election
By Laura Moulden Living standards must be a “defining issue” during the next general ...
Ed Miliband pledges return to 10p income tax rate
By Laura Moulden Ed Miliband has pledged to bring back the 10 pence starting ...
Bank of England: Recovery in sight
By Lauren Grice The Bank of England has claimed an economic recovery for the ...
Barclays to cut 3,700 jobs in strategic review
By Gerald Heneghan Barclays has announced it is to cut 3,700 jobs in an ...
Construction sector output grows in 2012
By Gerald Heneghan Construction sector output – a key indicator of economic growth – ...
EU budget faces first ever cuts
By Lauren Grice The European Union’s (EU’s) budget could see cuts for the first ...
Libor scandal: RBS hit with £390 million fine
By Lauren Grice The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has been fined £390 million ...
Osborne to announce bank break-up proposals
By Gerald Heneghan George Osborne is set to warn banks that they risk having ...
FSA reveals scale of interest rate swap scandal
By Laura Moulden The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has revealed the scale of the ...
Council tax rise to hit ‘millions of low-income households’
By Gerald Heneghan Council tax rises are set to hit millions of low-income households ...
ONS: UK economy shrank 0.3 per cent in Q4 2012
By Gerald Heneghan Britain’s economy shrank by 0.3 per cent during the last three ...
Eurozone unemployment hits record high
By Laura Moulden Unemployment in the eurozone has hit an all-time high as November ...
Ofcom fine HomeServe £750,000 for silent calls
Watchdogs have fined Walsall based insurance specialist HomeServe a record £750,000 following excessive silent ...
Thousands queue for Boxing Day bargins
THOUSANDS of shoppers in Birmingham queued up from the early hours of the morning ...
Top trumps wedding
ONE couple are celebrating their nuptials with the unusual wedding memento of a pack ...
Punter places GBP11.11 on the 11.11am race on the 11/11/11 and wins!
A PATRIOTIC punter is celebrating after scooping more than GBP100 on the dogs – ...
Jay Leno visits Jaguar Land Rover
AMERICAN talk show host Jay Leno has sensationally backed Piers Morgan’s calls for a ...
Charity shop finds almost £1500 in an old sofa
THERE can barely be a sofa in Britain that doesn’t have the odd penny ...