A retired Wall Street investment banker is spending millions of euros “on a labour of love” rebuilding a castle which was once in his family’s possession for hundreds of years.

Bank of England governor Mark Carney has raised the possibility that the UK central bank could lift interest rates from their record low before the year is out, his strongest hint yet that the bank is moving towards tighter policy.

A CATHOLIC nun said yesterday she staged a 12-hour protest against filming of controversial best-seller The Da Vinci Code at Lincoln Cathedral because it was heretical.

A Roman Catholic nun told today why she had staged a 12-hour protest against the filming of controversial best seller The Da Vinci Code at Lincoln Cathedral.

Church officials in London have barred the producers of The Da Vinci Code from shooting scenes in Westminster Abbey after denouncing the book, which the film will be based on, as "theologically unsound."