Cable 'Wants Investigation Into HBOS Life Bans'

An investigation is to be launched into whether the three former HBOS directors blamed for the banking group's collapse can be banned as company directors for life, it has been reported. The Business Secretary has asked his officials to see if there...

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Facebook: New Charges For Sending Messages

By James Banks, Sky News Reporter Facebook is to charge users up to £10 a time to contact people outside of their friends' network. The social networking site is likely to charge between 70p and £10 to message people who are not "friends" - with...

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Total UK Wealth Tops £7trn As Rich Get Richer

Total household wealth in the UK has soared past the £7trn mark for the first time but society is becoming more divided, according to new research. Net wealth - the value of residential buildings and financial assets less outstanding debts - is estimated...

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NI Shoppers Hit With 5p Plastic Bag Levy

A compulsory 5p charge has been imposed on the sale of all plastic shopping bags in Northern Ireland, in an attempt to stem their widespread usage. The 5p minimum tax per single-use carrier will improve the region's green credentials and help reduce...

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Banks Braced For £600m City Regulation Bill

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor Britain's big banks will this week be asked to pay tens of millions of pounds a year more towards the cost of regulating the financial sector under the coalition's new "twin peaks" system of supervision. I understand...

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Labour 'Wants Payday Lenders Off High Street'

Payday lenders and betting shops that "engulf" people in debt could be banned from high streets under a Labour Government. Ed Miliband has used the launch of his party's local election campaign to propose changes to planning laws, allowing councils...

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Disability Benefits: New System Rolled Out

By Siobhan Robbins, Sky Reporter A petition calling on Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith to live off £53 a week has been handed in to his office - as major changes to disability benefits are rolled out. New claimants in parts of northern...

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Luxembourg 'May Ease' Bank Secrecy Laws

Luxembourg has said it is prepared to ease its banking secrecy rules and work more closely with foreign authorities amid a crackdown on tax havens. Its finance minister, Luc Frieden told Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung of the possible...

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Miners Strike: Margaret Thatcher's Triumph

She called them "the enemy within" and the 1984-85 miners' strike was the most divisive confrontation of Margaret Thatcher's 11 years in power. It was a vicious, violent industrial dispute that changed the face of Britain and its industrial landscape...

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Warning First Class Stamp Could Cost £1

First class stamps could soon cost £1 each, according to a new campaign group that opposes Royal Mail privatisation. Save Our Royal Mail (SORM), set up by groups representing the countryside, the elderly, small firms and the blind, has urged the Government...

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