A university is being forced to hand out food parcels to students who have run out of money.

Defence giant BAE Systems is planning to axe more than 600 jobs and close a historic factory which made tanks for the First World War.

Beleaguered Spain was handed a lifeline by the European Commission (EC) yesterday as the nation was given an extra year to slash its deficit.

House prices have managed to weather the recession by recording their first monthly increase since February, a study said today.

Japan's scandal-hit cameras and equipment firm Olympus gave more evidence it is struggling yesterday as it signalled plans to axe 2500 staff and sell a stake to Sony or Panasonic.

Relief for Madrid as fears over banks see country's borrowing costs at their highest since it joined euro

High house prices and mortgage debt are destabilising the UK economy, a European Commission report warned today.

Driving test examiners, coastguards and other transport staff are to take strike action in the latest wave of action in protest at Government spending cuts, jobs and pensions.

A teenager has been jailed for life for shooting an aspiring athlete in "an act of cold-blooded murder".

Mr Philpott was earlier praised by police for his 'valiant' attempts to rescuehis sleeping children

The sinking Spanish economy was struck a fresh blow yesterday with retail sales figures for April showing a 9.8 per cent year-on-year fall, the biggest since records began in 2003.

House prices increased by 0.2% during this month, but the rise was only driven by London and the South, a study said today.

Whitehall departments have had to pay millions of pounds extra in severance packages after their cost-cutting redundancy programmes attracted more applicants than expected.

The Home Office is planning for a possible large increase in immigration from Greece and other European Union nations in response to the crisis in the euro, Theresa May has revealed.