Accident Specialist Hunts £100m Sale Partner

By Mark Kleinman, City Editor One of Britain's biggest providers of medical reports on negligence victims is preparing for a sale that could crystallise a £100m windfall for its shareholders. Sky News understands Doctors Chambers, which was established...

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Heathrow T2 'Teething Problems' Warning

Passengers using Heathrow's new £2.5bn Terminal 2 (T2) for the first time today are being warned to expect early teething problems. Bosses at the west London airport are not expecting a repeat of the calamitous opening of Terminal 5 (T5) back in 2008,...

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Hollande In Plea To Obama Over $10bn Bank Fine

The French president has warned of damage to trans-Atlantic trade talks if the US goes ahead with a reported $10bn (£6bn) fine against BNP Paribas. Francois Hollande has written to Barack Obama describing such a penalty against the French bank,...

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ISA Deposits Suffer Unprecedented Fall

Britons 'Draining Savings' To Stay Afloat Updated: 7:21pm UK, Tuesday 03 June 2014 There's a received wisdom about what is happening in the UK economy. It goes roughly as follows: consumers are short on cash, their real incomes are falling and they...

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Balls Calls For Sky News Debate With Osborne

By Ian King, Sky News Business Presenter Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has thrown down the gauntlet to Chancellor George Osborne to meet him head-on in a debate on Sky News. The challenge came as the combative Mr Balls repeated his call for the Government...

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Mobile Phone Call Costs Set To Fall Further

The telecoms regulator is proposing further cuts to charges imposed by mobile phone operators for connecting calls to rival networks. Ofcom said mobile termination rates - as they are known - would drop to just half a penny per minute by April...

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Tesco Sales Slump 'Worst in 40 Years'

Tesco's under-pressure chief executive Philip Clarke has admitted the chain's latest fall in sales is the worst he has seen in his 40 years with the group. The 3.8% fall in like-for-like sales in the UK during the firm's first quarter marked the...

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Fracking Protest At Prime Minister's Home

'Starting Pistol Fired' On UK Fracking Updated: 1:38pm UK, Friday 23 May 2014 By Ian King, Business Presenter Today's twin announcements from the Government mark what ministers hope will be the firing of the starting pistol on the shale revolution...

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Solo Scotland 'Faces Cuts Or Tax Rises'

By Niall Paterson, Scotland Correspondent An independent Scotland would be forced to bring in a range of austerity cuts or tax rises to balance its budget, a leading economic research group has warned. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said...

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Queen's Speech: Government's Agenda Set Out

A house building drive, pensions reform and a commitment to reform the EU have all been put on the agenda for the coalition in its last year. The speech put the economic recovery at its centre, opening with a pledge to continue bringing down the deficit...

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