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 | Mirror.co.uk - Greece must choose between brutal austerity measures or leaving the euro, David Cameron warned yesterday. The PM declared the upcoming Greek general election is a referendum on its membership of the single currency. |
 | Financial Times - By Martin Sandbu The Institute of Directors has endorsed a radical proposal that recommends replacing part of the UK tax system with a single income tax rate of 30 per cent and reducing the government's share of the national economy to one-third. |
 | Financial Times - By Andrea Felsted, Senior Retail Correspondent Sir Stuart Rose, the former chairman and chief executive of Marks and Spencer, once quipped that “weather is for wimps”. |
 | BBC News - US internet company Yahoo said it has reached a deal to sell part of its stake in the Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group. Alibaba will buy back half the 40% stake owned by Yahoo, following months of negotiations. |
Mirror.co.uk - Supermarket giants are going head to head in a fuel price war with huge cuts on the forecourts tomorrow. Morrisons is slashing prices by 12p a litre for shoppers who spend £60 at the checkout and Sainsbury's will reduce the cost by 3p a litre at its ... |
BBC News - A growing number of people are failing to save anything for their retirement, according to a survey. Some 22% of those aged between 30 and state pension age and who earned at least £10000 a year were not putting anything aside, Scottish Widows said. |
BBC News - By Roger Harrabin Environment analyst Environmentalists now fear that the UK government's draft energy bill to be published on Tuesday will end in a new "dash for gas". |
Bloomberg - Asking prices for UK homes were unchanged in May as the crisis in Europe and the end of a tax break for first-time buyers damped demand, Rightmove Plc said. |
Scotsman - By MARTIN FLANAGAN CITY asset management doyen Paul Manduca could be named as insurer Prudential's chairman within days, replacing out-of-favour Harvey McGrath. |
Scotsman - By SHÂN ROSS TRAINS across Scotland's rail network should be considered late if they are more than a minute overdue, rather than the current five to ten-minute thresholds, a report will urge today. |
The Press Association - The jobs market has shown its strongest improvement in almost a year, according to research. Recruitment consultants reported a "substantial rise" in the number of people given permanent work in April, a Bank of Scotland report on jobs said. |
Telegraph.co.uk - MPs who want a referendum on membership of the European Union are “right-wing nationalists” who would bring "disaster" to Britain, Kenneth Clarke has said. |
Construction News - Skanska, Kier Energy Solutions and Keepmoat are among 21 new organisations to join the Green Deal Finance Company. The company aims to deliver low-cost financing to underpin the Green Deal and now includes six local authorities as well as groups ... |
Wall Street Journal - By BRIAN BLACKSTONE and VANESSA FUHRMANS FRANKFURT—Germany's stagnant wages, long a source of discord between Berlin and the rest of the euro zone, are finally rising. |
MarketWatch - By Rhiannon Hoyle SYDNEY -- Chinese thermal coal and iron ore buyers are asking traders to defer cargos, and are in some cases even choosing to default on their contracts, The Financial Times reported Monday. |