The number of people in work in the UK has reached a record 30.7 million following another fall in the jobless total there.

Rivals on both sides of Scotland’s referendum debate will take to the streets today for one final day of campaigning before the historic ballot.

Pop star Gary Barlow has finally broken his silence to “apologise” on Twitter following damaging tax-dodging allegations.

A record rise in the number of people in work has helped unemployment fall to a five-year low but Britain’s workers have been squeezed by a dramatic slowdown in pay growth.

Take That star Gary Barlow is facing calls to hand back his OBE over claims he invested in a tax avoidance scheme.

Scotland will be given the power to issue its own bonds starting next year, British prime minister David Cameron’s government said as it steps up its campaign to keep the country in the UK.

Lloyds Banking Group investors are betting that UK house prices will continue to rise across the country as the economy recovers.

A £3.21bn chunk of UK-taxpayer-backed Lloyds Banking Group has been sold by the British Government as it begins the process of returning the bank to private hands.

Nick Clegg, Britain’s deputy prime minister, has said that the UK is nowhere near a house-price bubble and the Bank of England has tools to prevent it, amid growing concerns that government support for home-buying is stoking another boom.

Britain needs seven million migrants over the next 50 years to help keep down national debt levels, according to the official forecaster.

David Cameron will today meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks on the Syrian crisis amid fears that differences between Moscow and the West are pushing the two sides towards a new Cold War.

David Cameron stepped up clashes with Labour in the UK today by insisting the case of child killer Mick Philpott did raise “wider questions” about the welfare system in the country.

UK Chancellor George Osborne will warn there are no "miracle cures" for Britain's problems today as he admits more drastic action is needed to balance his government's books.

Britain’s biggest banks were tonight embroiled in a criminal investigation after the Serious Fraud Office opened an official inquiry into the rate-rigging affair.

UK Chancellor George Osborne has been issued a pre-Budget warning by an influential credit rating agency as it issued a “negative” outlook on the prospects of the UK economy retaining its AAA rating.

BRITISH unions are pressing ahead with plans for the biggest strike in a generation despite a new government offer on public sector pensions described as the “chance of a lifetime”.

Irresponsible bankers who take unacceptable risks or mis-sell products to customers should be barred from the profession, UK opposition leader Ed Miliband said today.

A strike by up to 750,000 teachers, civil servants and other public sector workers in the UK is set to go ahead after crunch talks with the Government today failed to end a bitter row over pensions and spending cuts.

Greece should be allowed to default on its debts and leave the euro, London Mayor Boris Johnson has said.

Voters in Iceland rejected a government-backed deal to repay Britain and the Netherlands for their citizens’ €3.5bn worth of deposits in a failed online bank, referendum results showed – sending the dispute to an international court and plunging the economically fragile country into new uncertainty.

THE News of the World publicly apologised yesterday for hacking into the voicemail of numerous top celebrities, in a scandal that has engulfed top politicians, royals and stars.

The Government is set to resort to legal action to recoup billions of pounds paid out to cover the deposits of British savers in collapsed Icelandic banks, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury signalled today.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's attempts to hold on to power were thwarted by Nick Clegg's demand that he step aside as part of any coalition between Labour and the Liberal Democrats, it was reported today.

BRITAIN’S Treasury minister said government projects worth £11.5 billion (€13.7bn) would be cancelled or suspended, accusing the previous Labour government of taking irresponsible spending decisions.

IRISHMAN John Fingleton is the best paid civil servant in Britain, new figures released yesterday revealed.

The Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition suffered a major blow tonight as David Laws was forced to resign over expenses abuse allegations.

David Cameron will begin work today on putting together his historic new coalition government with the Liberal Democrats.

Liberal Democrat leader and “kingmaker” Nick Clegg will become Deputy Prime Minister and join four of his MPs in the UK’s first coalition Cabinet for 65 years.

Minutes after Gordon Brown left Downing Street after announcing his immediate resignation, a few hundred yards away talks ended between Liberal Democrat and Tory negotiators on a future British government.

Hopes of an historic power-sharing deal between the Tories and Liberal Democrats in the UK rose today as the party leaders began talks with key colleagues about the negotiations.

The Tories left power-sharing talks with the Liberal Democrats today, declaring “further progress” had been made towards deciding if David Cameron could seal a deal to take him to No 10.

Negotiators for the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats will meet today for a crunch meeting to spell out their demands for a deal which could see the parties form a coalition government in Britain.

Tory leader David Cameron and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg held face-to-face talks tonight as they continued their attempts to thrash out a power-sharing deal.

British Liberal Democrat Party leader Nick Clegg today said he would fight for "fundamental" reform of Britain's electoral system in talks with other parties on the shape of the future government, following Thursday's inconclusive general election.

Nick Clegg will today address British Liberal Democrat MPs in an attempt to gain their backing for his negotiating strategy as he embarks on discussions with the Conservatives that could force Gordon Brown out of No 10.

Nick Clegg went on the offensive today, accusing David Cameron and Gordon Brown of attempting to “frighten” British voters away from voting Liberal Democrat.

IF EVER a political event needed a warm-up man to instil even a scintilla of animation in the audience it was at yesterday’s launch of the Liberal Democrat general election manifesto in central London.

Gordon Brown would not find it "impossible" to work with the Liberal Democrats if the forthcoming general election produced a hung Parliament, an ally of the British Prime Minister said today.

David Cameron fired the starting gun on the British general election campaign today, insisting he was the man to lead Britain to a brighter future.

British prime minister Gordon Brown was plunged into a new crisis tonight as one of his ministers broke ranks to demand a leadership contest.