Almost 40% of retailers targeted in an operation by Trading Standards in England are caught illegally selling e-cigarette products to under-18s.

One in three families in England could not pay their rent or mortgage for more than a month if they lost their job, research for the charity Shelter suggests.

Warmer weather helped Britain's retailers sell more in July than during the same period last year, defying expectations of a post-Brexit slump.

Britain's High Street banks have been ordered to launch a technological "revolution", in an effort to promote better competition.

The FTSE rises, but shares in insurer Legal & General drop 4% despite it reporting a rise in half-year profits.

Supermarket chain Morrisons is to expand its home delivery service nationwide after striking a new deal with its online partner, Ocado.

UK industrial output grew at the fastest rate since 1999 in the second quarter of the year, but the trade deficit worsened in June.

Vodafone claims it is scrapping line rental charges for new and upgrading home broadband customers in the UK.