Struggling Australian airline Qantas is to cut 5,000 jobs after reporting a half-year loss of A$252m ($225.8m: £135.5m).

A leading debt advice charity, StepChange, says it has seen a big rise in the number of clients with payday loan problems.

Power companies are being refused insurance cover for cyber-attacks due to inadequate defences, the BBC learns.

Standard Life has become the first Scottish business to warn it may have to relocate significant operations and assets outside the country if its people vote for independence.

The Royal Bank of Scotland, part-owned by the UK government, has posted a loss for the sixth successive year.

Disabled people are suffering "distress and financial difficulties" because of the slow processing of claims for a new benefit, a report says.

Rogue letting agents are duping tenants out of thousands of pounds by taking a holding deposit and not letting them move in, a Newsbeat investigation finds.

The weekly earnings of full-time workers in the UK fell in real terms, each year between 2008 and 2013, taking them back to the level of 2002.