Senior managers at the BBC were paid £1.4m (€1.65m) more than their contracts demanded in pay-offs over a three-year period, according to a new report.

The public spending watchdog is to investigate BBC severance packages after it emerged almost 200 senior managers received pay-offs of more than £100,000 (€122,137) each in the past three years.

International experts have told the Irish Government that a radioactive leak at the Sellafield nuclear site would cause no observable health effects in the country.

Up to 50,000 migrants may have used flaws in the student visa system to come to the UK for work in its first year, the country's public spending watchdog said today.

Up to 181,000 migrants who should have gone home over the past two years alone could still be in the UK illegally, figures showed today.

UK banking stocks slipped into the red today as the full level of public sector support for the financial sector was revealed.

Nationalised UK bank Northern Rock was allowed to lend £800m (€851.3m) in high-risk mortgages for six months after being placed on life-support with billions from the British taxpayer, the UK's public spending watchdog has said.

The National Audit office today blamed the European Commission and the UK government for lax controls on EU spending after Europe’s financial watchdog refused to clear the accounts for the 13th year running.

The bosses who made fortunes from the privatisation of defence research firm Qinetiq announced plans today to axe 400 jobs from the business.

CONSERVATIVES yesterday accused Alistair Darling of failing to tell “the whole truth” about the loss of confidential child benefit data, and demanded an emergency statement from the Chancellor.

The British taxpayer could have gained “tens of millions” more from the privatisation of UK defence research firm QinetiQ, the National Audit Office (NAO) said today.

COMPUTER disks holding sensitive personal data on 25 million people and 7.25 million families have gone missing, British Chancellor Alistair Darling has admitted to MPs.

THE agency set up in Britain to confiscate criminals’ cash and luxury assets was condemned as a ‘mess’ yesterday.

A British government watchdog is to investigate whether the abolition of the 192 directory enquiries service has been worthwhile for consumers.

Britain’s spending watchdog voiced concern over financial management practices in Brussels today after auditors declined for the eighth year in succession to pass the European Union’s accounts as reliable.