Aim's decline has damaged the once-buoyant broking sector in the City

Even though he lived in the same quiet neighborhood for decades, no one seemed to know Walter Samaszko Jr. He was so reclusive that weeks passed before authorities discovered he had died in his modest home in Nevada.

Older people affected by the Liberal Democrats’ proposed “mansion tax” could have payments deferred until after death if they are unwilling to pay up during their retirement, Nick Clegg has suggested.

Amid the commotion over the Government's stab at solving the vexed question of social care for the elderly, one detail received less prominence than it might have. In order to fund the reforms, the inheritance tax threshold will be frozen at £325,000 until at least 2019.

Pensioners’ leaders tonight condemned the Government’s plans to limit care home bills for the elderly as “tinkering around the edges” of much-needed change.

Millions of working Britons will need to take out insurance to pay for their care in old age in addition to saving for a pension, under government plans.

Minister to claim £75,000 social care cap and new means test limit will benefit thousands

The family of painter Lucian Freud donated a 19th-century masterpiece to the National Gallery – to thank Britain for offering him refuge from the Nazis in 1933.

Queen Fabiola of Belgium has become the latest European royal to fall victim to the continent’s austerity drive, with the government vowing to slash her yearly stipend by nearly half a million euros after accusations that she was trying to dodge taxes.

Inside Westminster

Hard-pressed drivers were given some respite as Osborne scrapped the fuel duty rise

Government backs plans encouraging hundreds of thousands to bequeath to arts and culture

The Duke and Duchess were both in TV ads, she for hair gel, he for Flash and Jaffa Cakes

How can we crank more money out of the tax system? Can we make the the rich pay more? And what other options are there to increase revenues?