Residents of one of Germany's foremost car manufacturing bases are urged to leave their vehicles at home after smog breaches maximum safe levels.

Steel company Sheffield Forgemasters cuts up to 100 jobs in another blow for the crisis-hit industry that has seen thousands of redundancies.

Shares in Asia sink into negative territory as investor sentiment continues to be rattled by oil prices and concerns over growth in China.

The first meeting of a group set up to tackle the fallout from more than 1,000 steelworkers losing their jobs takes place on Wednesday.

Energy firm E.On announces a 5.1% reduction in its standard gas price, becoming the first of the big six energy firms to cut prices within the last six months.

The FTSE 100 slides almost 2% in early trading, partly due to a continued fall in oil prices.

The UK unemployment rate fell to its lowest level for over a decade at 5.1% in the three months to November, but wage growth slowed.

As personal debt in Britain tops £180bn, the BBC hears from a worker who felt he was "drowning" in debt.