The Government is being urged to cut hidden credit and debit card costs which are said to be "strangling" UK retailers, following a European court ruling against MasterCard.

A one-off National Lottery draw will create 100 millionaires as a "thank you" to players for helping fund the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Travel chiefs have dismissed fears that the long Jubilee bank holiday weekend will harm the UK economy.

The number of young people not in school, work or training has edged closer to a million, official figures have revealed.

Banks must be told to stop offering free current accounts if Britain wants to stamp out mis-selling scandals, a senior regulator has said.

Everyone in the public sector "should be on the payroll and paying the correct amount of tax", Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has stressed.

A consumer group has called for credit union services to be offered through Post Offices to provide a long-term alternative to High Street banks, especially for people on low incomes.

More than a third of older people do not feel that the income from their pensions and savings is enough to give them a financially stable future, a study has revealed.

Families' disposable incomes are at their lowest since 2008, despite the decline in their spending power slowing, a report has said.

The price of some top-selling cars has risen well above the inflation rate over the last four years, according to Which? magazine.

The Government is facing fresh strikes over spending cuts and its controversial pension reforms amid claims by a union leader that the coalition had "unleashed hell" against workers and communities.

The Government has launched a crackdown on off-payroll salaries after identifying more than 2,400 cases of public sector staff being employed indirectly.