Anti-HS2 campaigners have attacked George Osborne’s decision to launch the bidding process to build the high speed rail line.

Ireland’s financial regulator first identified concerns over RSA Insurance Group Plc’s (RSA) local unit in August, three months before the insurer suspended its three top executives in the country amid an accounting probe.

ULSTER BANK chief executive Martin Wilson will step down from his position when its takeover of First Active is completed, making way for the former building society’s chief Cormac McCarthy.