LONDON | Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:31am BST. LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Whitbread (WTB.L) posted a 3.1 percent rise in first quarter sales, as demand for hot drinks at its Costa Coffee chain helped ease the impact of cold weather on its restaurant business.

The Co-operative Bank is going public, listing shares on the stock market to plug a �1.5bn black hole in its balance sheet. The bank unveiled a deal with the Prudential Regulation Authority yesterday that will see its bondholders paying the penalty for its ...

Bankers on the panel would advise the Government on developments in the banking industry and provide an official conduit for conversations between senior politicians and executives.

Wales: Gary Griffiths Wales' entrant baritone Gary Griffiths is happily already well on his way in his operatic career, like a large number of this year's participants.

An aircraft maintenance business co-founded by the lead singer of Iron Maiden is set to be pumped with a �5m investment in what will help the company have a �much wider impact across the entire South Wales aerospace industry�.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is set to begin the first criminal prosecution in the LIBOR-rigging scandal and could charge a former UBS and Citigroup trader this week, The Times reports.

Legal & General (L&G) has promoted one of its senior staff to finance director after the insurer's external candidate was disapproved of by the regulator.

Anthony Bolton will give up managing the Fidelity China Special Situations fund and return to retirement after it failed to match the returns of the U.K.

Steve Webb's comments will fuel the debate over whether the favourable treatment offered to pensioners this parliament can be maintained as the next administration struggles with sustained austerity.

Energy-saving improvements boost house prices by 14 per cent on average, with increases of up to 38 per cent in some parts of the country, the research based on 300,000 property sales in England between 1995 and 2011 claimed.