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House prices suffer November fall

House prices fell by 0.1% in November but there are hopes the market may be stabilising, Halifax has said.Property prices in the three months...

Cable defends tuition fees plans

The Government has made "tough choices" to produce a better system for university funding, Business Secretary Vince Cable has said.As thousands of students protest...

Austere times boost festive saving

Savings and voucher firm Park Group has reported a 37% leap in Christmas savings as it said economic hard-times were driving people to put...

BAE to deliver Christmas jobs blow

Defence giant BAE Systems is set to deliver a pre-Christmas jobs blow by announcing cuts of up to 1,350 posts.The expected move follows the...

Banks and miners drive FTSE forward

Banks and miners drove an increase on the FTSE 100 Index on Thursday as stocks received a boost from overnight gains in America and...

Library book overdue by 74 years

A California woman is proving it's never too late to make things right.Ninety-five-year-old Hazel Severson of Sacramento said a friend found a book that...

Snow hits HMV Christmas trading

Music and games retailer HMV said its full-year outcome was hanging in the balance after the start of the all-important Christmas trading period was...

Gunshot sensors installed in city

Sensors that can detect gunshots have been installed in one of Britain's biggest cities in a bid to drive down gun crime.The Shotspotter Gunshot...

Lockerbie bomber 'close to death'

The Lockerbie bomber is said to be close to death after a rapid deterioration in his health.Terminally ill Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is on a life...

Doors man pardoned over 'exposure'

The Doors' frontman Jim Morrison is to get a posthumous pardon for an indecent exposure conviction in Florida after he pulled what a bandmate...

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