A “greedy” City trader tried to involve his “cheeky young graduate” stepbrother in an attempt to rig a key interest rate, a court has heard.

A former Austrian agent for British arms company BAE Systems was charged with corruption today.

Detectives tonight warned innocent people would have been killed if a 400lb bomb had exploded in Belfast last weekend.

Severn Trent today said costs associated with the summer’s flooding crisis washed away profits growth in the first half of its financial year.