Tom Nicolson

Insurance companies made record payouts last year, following large-scale disasters in Japan and New Zealand.

Crackdown on cosy relationship between police and reporters urged as hacking fallout continues.

Party donors who receive peerage bound to raise suspicion and undermine honours system, says standards watchdog.

The shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, has launched a stinging attack on politicians who do photoshoots with their children over Christmas - the day after the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, was pictured at home with his family.

A transsexual who pushed a distinguished lawyer in front of a train on the London Underground was today cleared of murder.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, received welcome news ahead of the Christmas break as growth figures for the UK were better than expected between July and September.

Revenues & Customs taken to court over controversial settlement which saved investment bank £10m.

Anti-Europe UK Independence Party forces government to carry out cost/benefit analysis of Britain's EU membership.

Unemployment is increasing by almost 2,000 every working day, with redundancy forms dropping through the letter boxes of public sector workers like "confetti", a leading union said today.

On the day the Business Secretary launched a stinging attack on banks, chief executive of Charity Bank Malcolm Hayday spoke exclusively to the International Business Times on how trust has broken down and how to fix it.

Police launch raids on suspected summer rioters in biggest crackdown since urban disturbaces four months ago, says Scotland Yard.

Mother who stabbed her three young children to death has been repeatedly attacked since she was convicted.

An air hostess has been charged with attempting to smuggle nearly 9lb (4kg) of cocaine into Britain.

The legal arm of the tax pressure group, UK Uncut, has taken HM Revenue & Customs to court after it failed to provide substantial reasons for failing to collect billions of pounds worth of tax revenue.

Exposed: Revenue & Customs under scrutiny after MPs publish damning report into how corporations enjoy cosy relationship with the taxman.

The Hutton Inquiry, which looked into the surroundings of the death of the weapons inspector, Dr David Kelly, will not be reopened.

Immigration Minister Damien Green has been summoned to appear in the Commons after a leaked document said that 4,238 criminals from overseas are not being detained, even though they had been earmarked for deportation.

Man who attacked partner and buried her in cardboard box because he was 'bored' guilty of attempted murder.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, has reiterated his political affiliation with liberalism in an attempt to distance his party, the Liberal Democrats, from his Conservative coalition partners.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, will press ahead with controversial plans to shake up the banking industry despite warnings that it could harm the economy.

The Swedish car manufacturer Saab has filed for bankruptcy after a court rejected the company’s plea for protection from its creditors.

A High Court judge has dismissed a legal challenge to a new immigration rule requiring people to be able to speak English before coming to the UK to live with their spouse.

BP, the petroleum company that was at the centre of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, received $250 million (£161.3 million) from the manufacturer of the failed blowout preventer on its Deepwater Horizon rig.

Hop-on, hop-off red double-decker buses will return to regular services in London on 20 February next year, in a return to the traditional 1960s capital favourite.

The Danish bank Saxo has released it's ten most outrageous business and financial predictions for the new year.

The prime minister, David Cameron, looks set to take advantage of the emerging divisions among some EU member states, amid the fallout of the European Summit in Brussels last week.

The tax injustice pressure group, UK Uncut, has claimed victory over Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs after it was reported that up to ten companies would have their tax settlements with the HMRC investigated.

More than one in four young women first has sex below the age of 16 - a greater proportion than previous generations.

A powerful committee in the British Parliament has raised concerns over the future care of troops returning from service with severe injuries and mental health problems.