Who needs friends when you have an enemy like Sergio Garcia? Tiger Woods did not so much win the Players Championship as fish it out of the water after Garcia’s challenge drowned at the penultimate hole.

Outlook Bank shareholders don't like capital issuances. Investors simply won't buy the equity. That's, at any rate, what we're often told by banks' management teams, as they complain about regulators' demands for them to build up their safety buffers.

Outlook Well, someone certainly loves Cupid. The dating website that has been the subject of some unattractive reports about its business practices was still in the clouds yesterday, although its shares haven't quite made up all the ground lost after the BBC shot a poisoned arrow through its heart.

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It’s been a year since Bill Granger took his children on a half-term break to the Swiss Alps. But he’s not forgotten the deliciously warming food that really made the holiday special.

If you think your Valentine’s Day is going to be romantic, it won’t be a patch on Frankel’s.

It’s not big but the new Mercedes Shooting Brake is certainly beautiful

Eight people have been charged in connection with a series of fraudulent business loans made through a high-street bank to the value of about £35m.

Father-of-two says he developed an uncontrollable passion for gay sex and gambling - at one point even selling his children's toys to fund his addiction

People often find themselves in a cycle of debt that they can't get out of - and at the moment, it's legal.

Outlook The present trend is for banks to be – or at least to say they are – boring. Chief executives are falling over each other in the race to be the dullest banker in Britain. Antony Jenkins at Barclays insists he is that man. Folk who talk to him say this is highly plausible, but perhaps he's just acting.

City UK which is the promotional body for the financial services industry has a project aimed at restoring customers' trust. But progress is slow because you don't get results by standing on a soap box and saying, "Trust me I am a reformed character." You gain trust by doing the right thing, over and over again, one customer at a time. You do it, you live it, and eventually you get the credit.

A "Fred Goodwin Law" making it easier to ban the bosses of failed banks from the City could be on the statute books by January.

A "Fred Goodwin Law" making it easier to ban the bosses of failed banks from the City could be on the statute books by January.