Britons 'spend Â£97bn on holidays'
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Britons are set to spend a total of  Â£97.3bn on holidays this year, a survey by Axa Insurance suggests.
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Holiday shoppers were not spending as freely as expected, causing worry for many economists and investors.
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Poorer pensioners will get an extra Â£4 a week from April - or Â£6.10 more for couples - according to figures in the Pre-Budget report.
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Homeowners have had to cut spending on holidays and other luxuries because of the rise in interest rates., research suggests.
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UK consumers are still borrowing more money than citizens of any other European country, a report says.
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Expenses like travel and food cost parents of state school pupils more than Â£700 a year, says a report.
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Around 700,000 Britons suffer from dementia and the condition costs the nation's economy 17 billion pounds annually, the Alzheimer's Society has said Tuesday.
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More than Â£100 million of public money is spent on translation services in Britain, the BBC learns.
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Britain is now a society transfixed by the delights of leisure and travel, new figures show
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Britons are on average giving more to charity than a year ago, according to a report.
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Consumer group complains of higher prices in U.K. than elsewhere in Europe.
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People in the UK used their handsets to access the net 15.9 million times in December, says a report.
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Online shoppers in the United States spent &#36;23.2 billion during the holidays, excluding travel, up 25 percent from the 2003 season, according to a new survey from Goldman, Sachs & Co., Harris Interactive and Nielsen/NetRatings.
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Britons are saving Â£57 billion a year too little to pay for the costs of retirement, a government-commissioned report is expected to warn today.
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The British economy grew by 0.7 percent in the first quarter of 2007 and by 2.9 percent over 12 months, official data showed on Friday.
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Britons pay almost three times as much as Americans for gas, and some accept annual parking fees that could fund the purchase of a flat-screen TV.Comment
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Britain's public finances recorded a deficit of 17 billion pounds in December, the highest ever level for the month, official data showed Monday.