Whitehall cost-cutting must not be allowed to damage the status of the Government's annual human rights report, Liberal Democrat MP Sir Menzies Campbell warned today.

Gordon Brown's refusal to admit to the need for spending cuts cost Labour the election, Alistair Darling suggested yesterday.

Nestlé posted a 7.5 per cent rise in first-half profits yesterday, but warned that its markets face headwinds in the second six months of the year.

chrysler trimmed trimmed its losses from $197m (£124m) to $172m in the second quarter of the year, boosted by rising sales and steady cost-cutting efforts, the US car giant said yesterday.

BT lifted profits 17 per cent between April to June as its cost-cutting plan continued to pay off, in what the group's chief executive called an "acceptable" start to its financial year.

British Airways cabin crew will start voting today on a new offer aimed at averting fresh strikes in their long-running row with the airline over cost-cutting.

British Airways cabin crew will start voting tomorrow on a new offer aimed at averting fresh strikes in their long-running row with the airline over cost-cutting.

Children from poorer homes are having to take it in turns to eat school dinners because of their cost, inspectors revealed today.

David Abraham is making his mark as the new chief executive of Channel 4 by slashing a quarter of senior managers and calling for a "fundamental evolution" at the group.

Key NHS targets are to be scrapped and management costs slashed by nearly half as part of a major shake-up unveiled by the coalition Government today.

Talks aimed at resolving the long-running dispute between British Airways and its cabin crew ended without agreement yesterday.

British Airways cabin crew will tomorrow launch the last wave of five-day strikes in their bitter row with the airline, although further industrial action is threatened unless the deadlocked row is broken.