Morrisons unveiled steady results and confirmed it will take its first step into online retail in partnership with Ocado in 2014 as Sainsbury's announces higher annual profits.

Officials admitted the impact of oil-price fixing could go be much wider than driving up petrol prices, after the European officials raided companies suspected of �colluding� to distort the market.

The European Commission is to ban the use of refillable bottles and dipping bowls of olive oil at restaurant tables from next year.

When you write about Heathrow, please stop referring to the people disturbed by aircraft noise as "local" residents. I live miles from the airport, in Clapham, south London, and my life has been made a misery by aircraft noise for at least 10 years.

The rising tide of irritating sales and marketing calls has turned into a flood, with British households receiving two a week on average.

Severn Trent has launched a Retail Prices Index linked bond, making it the UK first water company to offer retail investors an inflation-beating investment product.

Britain's green energy 'folly' will cost every family an extra �600 a year by 2020, a report warned last night. The cost to consumers of green energy subsidies will exceed �16billion a year within seven years, according to a leading industry analyst.

SCOTTISH electricity company SSE is investing �200 million in the acquisition and development of a wind-farm project at Dunmaglass near Loch Mhor, about 15 miles south of Inverness.

MPs are ready to haul Amazon back to parliament to answer new questions about its tax status in Britain after a Guardian investigation's findings suggest the online retailer is pushing the tax rulebook to its limits to minimise its tax bill.

The economic benefits of the HS2 high-speed rail project are unclear, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned. In a report, the NAO said it had "reservations" about how the planned high-speed rail link would deliver growth and jobs.