The official UK interest rate could settle at an average of 3% in a few years, the outgoing deputy governor of the Bank of England Charlie Bean predicts.

Hindustan Motors has suspended work at the plant making India's first car, the Ambassador, blaming a lack of demand and financing.

Jersey financial regulators are accused of failing to act against an island-based trust allegedly involved in selling gold sourced from militia in the war-torn DR Congo.

The Scottish government says it would be possible to set-up a fund for North Sea oil revenue immediately from the start of independence.