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.