Aston Villa have suspended striker Gabriel Agbonlahor pending an investigation into off-field matters.

Directors David Bernstein and Mervyn King have quit Aston Villa with immediate effect to plunge the relegated club deeper into a crisis.

Remi Garde could have taken charge of his last game as Aston Villa manager, with an exit around the corner.

A Eurosceptic Conservative MP in England has called on the governor of the Bank of England to consider his position, accusing Mark Carney of "a deliberate attempt to scare people into thinking we should remain in the EU".

The euro area has been, if not an economic disaster, a "very serious problem" affecting Britain, the former governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King has said.

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Royal Bank of Scotland could create an internal bad bank to house more of its problem loans, even if Britain decides not to enforce a breakup of the part-nationalised lender, banking industry and political sources say.

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

The Bank of England is expected to keep the City waiting on much-anticipated measures to lift the economy out of the doldrums when it holds its latest interest rate meeting on Thursday.

Mark Carney’s arrival as the governor of the Bank of England appears to have had an immediate impact on the bank’s monetary policy committee.

The Bank of England has warned over the “significant” threat from a sharp rise in interest rates to debt-laden households, banks and finance firms.

UK Chancellor George Osborne is reportedly set to face calls from a high-powered commission of MPs and Lords to split Royal Bank of Scotland into a good bank and a bad bank.

Bank of England policymakers will decide tomorrow whether to inject billions more pounds of stimulus into the UK economy or to hold off amid tentative signs of a recovery.

Taxpayer-backed Royal Bank of Scotland is reportedly poised to slash hundreds more jobs to further shrink its investment banking division under plans to boost its balance sheet.

The British government is proposing to change the remit of the Bank of England to herald in a new era of ‘monetary activism.’

Chancellor George Osborne unveiled the first overhaul of the Bank of England’s remit in nearly a decade under plans for “monetary activism” in the face of sharp growth downgrades and higher borrowing.

The British Chancellor’s attempts to “re-set” Britain’s banking system still do not go far enough, a panel set up following the industry’s Libor-fixing scandal said today.

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Goldman Sachs has decided not to hold back investment bankers' bonuses until the new financial year.

Bank of England policymakers are unlikely to deliver an early Christmas present to the economy today despite warnings that output could shrink again in the final three months of the year.

The strongest rise in household spending in more than two years helped drive the UK's dramatic bounce back to economic growth between July and September, official figures revealed today.

Chancellor George Osborne shocked the City today as he unveiled Canadian Mark Carney as the first non-British citizen to be appointed as governor of the Bank of England.

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will name the next Governor of the Bank of England in a statement to the House of Commons today.

The Bank of England could name its new governor this week amid pressure to appoint a successor to Mervyn King before the Chancellor’s autumn statement.

The number of workers employed in the British public sector has fallen by almost 660,000 since the coalition government came to power, with further cuts being planned, according to new research.

Bank of England governor Sir Mervyn King today warned that UK output may shrink again as the economy continues its “zig-zag” recovery.

British Chancellor George Osborne will have to fill a £48bn black hole in the UK's public finances if he is to get his deficit-busting plans back on track, a report warned today.

The Bank of England is to appoint a chief operating officer for the first time in a move that should allow its Governor and Deputy Governors to focus more on policy.

Levels of bankers’ bonuses are to be dictated by shareholders under new rules from the European Commission.

More than eight in 10 City workers in the UK expect to receive a bonus this year, a survey revealed today, despite the economic downturn and public pressure to curb excessive pay.

The double-dip recession in Britain is not as deep as previously feared after revised figures showed a smaller contraction in the second quarter of the year.

The UK’s double-dip recession is not as deep as previously feared after revised figures showed a smaller contraction in the second quarter of the year.

Britain’s budget deficit widened to the biggest on record for any August, data showed yesterday, a day after the central bank governor said overshooting budget targets may now be acceptable.

Barclays’ new chief executive today signalled plans to shrink the investment banking arm that dominated the reign of predecessor Bob Diamond.

Standard Chartered chief executive Peter Sands hit back at a New York regulator’s claims the bank broke US sanctions, and said he saw “no grounds” for revoking the lender’s licence.

Sterling is heading for fresh falls in coming weeks as worries about a deepening recession in the UK, highlighted by the Bank of England, keep expectations of further monetary easing intact.

The Bank of England is on course to slash its growth forecasts as the double-dip recession deepens and the Eurozone storm closes in.

Standard Chartered has seen £6bn (€7.5bn) wiped from its value amid fears it could lose its US banking licence after regulators branded the lender a “rogue institution” over its dealings with the Iranian government.

The European Union’s internal watchdog has launched an investigation of European Central Bank president Mario Draghi following a complaint of conflict of interest, the institution’s spokeswoman said.

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The furore over the G4S Olympics contract showed no signs of fading as the security firm’s shares fell another 6% today.

Bank of England boss Mervyn King told MPs he was not to blame for failing to spot the rate-rigging scandal engulfing the industry amid mounting accusations over the central bank’s role..