Councils lose 1,000 blank cheques
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Two councils are facing calls for an investigation after a box of 1,000 blank cheques were lost by staff.
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Flat prices in most parts of England and Wales are not keeping up with houses, Land Registry figures show.
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Millions of customers across the UK were left without cash on Saturday after their bank&#39;s ATM machines stopped dispensing money.
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More than Â£1m worth of property belonging to a brother of an alleged IRA leader are frozen.
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A Â£141m computer system used to process benefits payments is scrapped, the BBC learns.
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A City trader who claimed a sexist work culture forced her out of one of Europe's biggest banks loses her Â£1.3m compensation claim.
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Business & money: An emergency loan of Â£1.6bn and speculation about the sub-prime fallout have rocked the bank.
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The first tranche of emergency flood relief cash was released by the government yesterday to councils facing multimillion-pound bills in the north of England.
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Study finds more than 1,000 small towns have an uncertain future as larger centres and the internet take business away.
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Hundreds of people turn to "no win, no fee" firms to reclaim penalty charges from banks and building societies.
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More than two million households struggle to keep up with council tax bills in the UK, a study concludes.
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Business & money: Around 1,000 jobs slashed across Co-operative Group's financial arm, with Manchester-based staff expected to be badly hit.
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Consumers who have become used to writing checks in the expectation of having at least a couple of days to cover them with a deposit may soon be in for a rude awakening.
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Government bodies have lost tens of millions of pounds in debts and fraud, a spending watchdog says.
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Fears grew on Saturday that panic among  savers at British bank Northern Rock  will see a run of  withdrawals after reports that 1 billion pounds had already  been taken out.
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HONG KONG - Safe deposit boxes from a bank branch in Hong Kong were taken away and crushed as scrap metal, leaving customers angry at the loss of their valued possessions, executives acknowledged Wednesday.    Embarrassed bosses at Singapore-based DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd...
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Some 150 charities say problems with an online system mean they have missed out on government grants.