Marks & Spencer's store staff could see their meagre �100 bonus trimmed or ditched after the retail bellwether posts a further fall in annual profits this week.

The latest UK government paper on the impact of Scottish independence will claim the UK is better placed to manage the risk of a financial crisis.

Every British taxpayer is being cheated out of �183 a year as global giants including Google and Amazon avoid paying annual taxes of as uch as �5.5billion.

Nuffield Health, the charity that runs gyms and private hospitals, is the second organisation within a fortnight to offer small investors a high-paying bond.

The report said the cost of hitting European Union targets on green energy is likely to be more than �16 billion by 2020. This includes the cost of subsidies for wind farms and nuclear power, improvements to the national grid and VAT on green costs.