As if they weren't already well-connected enough, the world's two greatest dynasties joined forces yesterday as Europe's Rothschild banking clan bought a stake in the Rockefeller group's wealth and asset management business to gain a foothold in the US.

Pocketing £4.7m is not bad going by anyone's standards. That is how much Sir Frank Chapman has netted after the BG boss decided to cash in a chunk of shares, news of which left the blue-chip energy explorer among the worst fallers on the top-tier index yesterday.

The energy engineering services group Cape has parachuted in a new chief executive days after a shock profits warning wiped nearly 40 per cent off its value.

The company in charge of running Britain’s nuclear reprocessing operation at Sellafield in Cumbria said today that it needs an extra £276 million of taxpayer’s money to complete the single biggest nuclear construction project in the UK.

The Government is to take action to get petrol companies to pass on cuts in global oil prices to motorists at the pumps.

Household energy bills will top £1,500 within three years, forcing millions to ration their heating, according to comparison site uSwitch.

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Two workmen were taken to hospital following a fire at a factory.

An oil refinery which went bust is to close after administrators failed to find a buyer or the cash needed to keep it going, putting around 850 jobs at risk.

It is the latest culinary invention to be hailed as the best thing since sliced bread: the non-stick ketchup bottle.

The chief government spokesman during Japan's nuclear crisis testified yesterday that he did not deliberately mislead the public about the extent of the accident.

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