LONDON | Thu Jun 20, 2013 7:45am BST. LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyds Bank has a capital shortfall of 8.6 billion pounds, Britain's banking regulator said on Thursday, a day after the UK government signalled plans to return the part-state owned lender to the ...

Thursday 08.00 BST. European stocks joined the heavy sell-off seen across Asia on Thursday which started overnight in the US and was triggered by the Federal Reserve's confirmation that it expects to start easing its asset purchases later this year.

Asian shares headed for the biggest loss since September 2011 and European stock futures slumped on concern the Federal Reserve may phase out stimulus and as China's cash crunch worsened.

LONDON, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- BT announces today that Gavin Patterson will succeed Ian Livingston as chief executive of BT Group plc.

Booming sales of tablet computers and the collapse of rival Comet helped boost underlying trading figures at Dixons, the European retailer, although it suffered a widening full-year, pre-tax loss of �115.3m owing to writedowns at its struggling Pixmania ...

Sir Brian Souter made a healthy profit from his part in a consortium which bought and sold luxury yacht-maker Sunseeker. Picture: complimentary.

The Environment secretary will say that using GM will make use of farm land and �free up space for biodiversity, nature and wilderness�.

LONDON | Wed Jun 19, 2013 11:42am BST. LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined a property agent nearly a million pounds for defrauding vulnerable people, the largest-ever fine for a sole trader in the consumer sector.

Sir Mervyn King, the outgoing governor of the Bank of England who has spent more than two decades at Threadneedle Street, is to be made a life peer.

A survey of 30,000 people by the watchdog group, Passenger Focus, showed the travelling public are increasingly frustrated by the lack of staff at stations, delays and squalid lavatories on trains.