ped in June after a brief May shopping rise. Data from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) show a 0.4 per...

The FTSE 100 this morning continued yesterday's fall as the market slipped after a brief opening fillip. At 9:39 BST the index stood...

The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) has presented proposals to the government designed to address funding problems in the UK mortgage market. The policy which...

British ex-pats living in Spain enjoy a lifestyle that is "second to none", property experts have claimed.

The UK offers the worst quality of life in all of Europe, a new study has concluded.

The latest jobs data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed a mixed employment picture...

JPMorgan Chase has posted an earnings fall of 53 per cent, as the credit crunch continues to bite Wall Street. The US investment bank saw...

New data has revealed that the number of applicants to full-time undergraduate courses at UK universities and colleges has risen by 9.1 per...

The FTSE 100 fell 0.41 per cent today after rallying on close following oil price falls to narrow earlier losses. The index closed down...

A leading United Nations scientist has encouraged businesses to fly abroad less for meetings and to conduct them instead via video conferencing. Dr Rajendra Pachauri...

A clear policy on what staff are allowed to access on the internet while at work will benefit both employers and workers, it has been...

Victims of the Equitable Life near collapse should receive compensation, the Parliamentary Ombudsman ruled today. In a report into how the government handled its oversight...

The FTSE 100 beat off some despondency to rise 1.61 per cent to 5,233.60 at 9:13 BST. The jump followed rises...

Troubled mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley has won the support of its shareholders for its proposed rights issue. Some 93 per cent of all proxy votes...

The FTSE 100 climbed 2.63 per cent to 5,286.30. Confidence returned after yesterday's rally in New York and was unaffected by...

The menace of knife crime is not confined to cities, official figures showed today.

The wife of back-from-the-dead canoeist John Darwin told a court today that she considered leaving her husband after he had an affair.

British troops seriously injured in operations are to have their compensation payments doubled as part of a new package of welfare measures to be published today.

When I went down to the enormous Islam Expo in Kensington Olympia last week one of the many things that struck me was how much wonderful Islamic fashion was on display.

A group of illegal immigrants arrived in Britain after stowing themselves aboard Army vehicles, police confirmed today.