Christmas Debts 'Won't Be Cleared Until June'

The average family is going to take on debts this Christmas that will take until June to pay off, it has been claimed. The Trades Union Congress has carried out research that shows that the typical family will add £685 to its borrowing by the time the...

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Christmas Shoppers To Spend £12bn In 4 Days

By Emma Birchley, Reporter Shoppers are expected to spend £12bn in just four days as they make the most of slashed prices and promotions, according to retail forecasters. The deals are being offered as a fierce battle for sales rages both on the...

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Serco Agrees To Repay £68.5m Overcharge

Disgraced firm Serco has agreed to repay the Government £68.5m for overcharging for tagging criminals. Both Serco and G4S were found to have charged the taxpayer tens of millions of pounds too much for monitoring criminals in a contract dating back...

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Mortgage Misery For Millions If Rates Go Up

By Ed Conway, Economics Editor Around four million families would not have enough cash to pay their mortgage if interest rates rose to barely half the rate they were before the crisis, according to Bank of England research. The warning from the...

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Serco And G4S Braced For Investigation Outcome

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor The two outsourcing giants at the centre of a scandal over the delivery of Government projects are braced for more bad news on Thursday as they fight to start bidding again for major Whitehall contracts. Sky News understands...

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HMRC Failing To Pursue Big Business, MPs Warn

By Gerard Tubb, Sky News Correspondent The tax man is too keen to chase small businesses for unpaid tax and is not doing enough to prosecute multi-national firms, according to MPs. The Public Accounts Committee claimed Her Majesty's Revenue and...

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Airport Expansion: The Case For And Against

The news that new runways at Heathrow and Gatwick are on a shortlist of airport expansion options has been welcomed by the airline industry as well as business leaders. But green campaigners, local residents and some politicians are worried about the...

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New Runways For Gatwick And Heathrow Airports

Building a controversial third runway at Heathrow airport has been shortlisted as one of the options for expansion by the Airports Commission in its first report. The interim findings of an independent inquiry led by the former head of the Financial...

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Carrefour Plans £1.7bn Shopping Malls Deal

Carrefour has announced plans to buy 127 shopping centres across Europe in a €2bn (£1.69bn) deal. France's largest retailer, which already owns nearly 10,000 hypermarkets, supermarkets and convenience shops across the continent, has joined forces with...

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Ticket Rip-Off: Prices 'Marked Up' Online

Theatre-goers and music fans face mark-ups of as much as 38% on the value of some online tickets, according to a Which? study. Compulsory charges are added to 72% of tickets sold online, said the consumer group, which is launching a campaign to bring...

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Ireland Exits Bailout As Economy Turns Around

Ireland has become the first country in the eurozone to exit a bailout programme it was forced to take when it fell on hard times. The country's economy, previously dubbed the Celtic Tiger because of it incredible growth, needed the emergency measure...

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Virgin Money To Launch Current Account Trial

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor The banking arm of Sir Richard Branson's business empire will on Monday become the latest high street lender to begin an assault on Britain's lucrative current account market with the launch of a pilot among its 3000...

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Johnson To Mull Legal Move Over Airport Snub

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor Boris Johnson is expected to consider a legal challenge to an expected snub next week to his proposals for a new four-runway airport in the Thames Estuary. Sky News understands that the Mayor of London has discussed...

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UK Plans Cap On EU Immigrants - Leaked Report

The number of people allowed to move to the UK from European Union countries could be capped at 75,000 under proposals set out by the Home Office, it has been claimed. A leaked Government report on the effect on Britain of the EU's policy allowing free...

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