3:30pm

MPs lambast ex-head of SFO over staff payments

Public Accounts Committee attacks ‘outrageous’ actions by fraud-busting agency

8:04pm

Libor scandal led to creation of banking panel

Commission set up to focus on ethics and accountability in sector

7:07pm

Couple fail to overturn bankruptcy ruling

Court had said O’Donnells could not prove UK ‘main centre of interest’

From COMPANIES 4:58pm

UK’s largest coal mine shut down

Closure of Daw Mill likely to mean 650 job losses

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A hunter-gatherer’s wild career

Miles Irving turned a childhood fascination with plants into a food foraging business

From COMPANIES 11:57pm

Bankers dodge tomato throwers’ projectiles

Man in charge of the public pillorying of Britain’s bankers will retire to consider the next move

From UK POLITICS & POLICY 9:30pm

Osborne to hand Carney more powers

Forthcoming Budget to usher in looser monetary policy

From UK POLITICS & POLICY 8:22pm

Brazil visa crackdown plan fuels trade fears

Mismatch between clampdown on immigration and call to compete in the ‘global race’

From COMPANIES 6:56pm

Google tip-off leads to Microsoft EU penalty

Maker of Windows software is fined €561m

From UK POLITICS & POLICY 5:51pm

National Trust warns on planning reform war

Councils failing to meet deadline on development plans

From UK POLITICS & POLICY 5:36pm

Civil servants plan strike for Budget day

Plan for three months of action over pay, pensions and working conditions

Mar 6, 2013

Payday lenders given 12 weeks to shape up

OFT says loan providers risk losing credit licences

Mar 6, 2013

Wheatley pledges payday lender crackdown

FCA chief says interest rate cap will be considered

From UK POLITICS & POLICY Mar 5, 2013

Payday lenders fear damning report

Pressure grows for tougher regulation of sector

Mar 5, 2013

FSA says it was slow on Libor scandal

Internal review finds watchdog was too focused on financial crisis

Mar 5, 2013

Interest-only loans – the next PPI

Claims companies launch television campaigns

Mar 5, 2013

UK heads Europe’s internet usage

Britain ranks third for superfast broadband coverage

Mar 5, 2013

Jaguar Land Rover to create 700 jobs

Carmaker invests extra £150m in Wolverhampton factory

Mar 5, 2013

SFO disputes Tchenguiz damages claim

Agency denies it acted ‘recklessly’ in investigation

Mar 5, 2013

Goldman Sachs economist warns on austerity

Jim O’Neill believes the chancellor will be forced into a U-turn

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