The shock resignations come less than a month after the Serious Fraud Office announced that it had begun a probe into allegations of corruption at the miner. The investigation was launched two days after the resignation of chairman Mehmet Dalman, who was brought in to clean up the firm’s reputation.
The housebuilder reported a sharp rise in business since New Year – particularly following the launch of the Government’s Help to Buy scheme.
The boost to the outlook for gross domestic product follows official figures that showed growth of 0.3 per cent in the three months to the end of March.
Royal Bank of Scotland is losing its most senior female director as the taxpayer-owned bank reshapes to sell of part of US arm Citizens.
The vote saw 13 per cent of investors fail to back the insurer’s boardroom pay, in a poor year for the business which saw it lose £3.1billion after tax.
After paying £736million for the rights to broadcast 38 Premier League football matches every season, BT has today unveiled its sport packages for new customers. Key to its launch is that BT broadband customers will get BT Sport FREE through their set top boxes, computers, phones and tablets, while non-broadband subscribers will have to pay up to £15 to access its three sports channels.
The number of buy-to-let mortgages being taken out is up 4% annually, according to new statistics, dramatically below the 30% growth seen a year ago.
Customers visiting ten of the top holiday destinations for British tourists around the world withdrew an average of £126.02 at a cost of £5.99 a time.
The Council of Mortgage Lenders said the upswing followed a usual seasonal pattern, with 8,000 properties repossessed between January and March, 300 more than in the final quarter of 2012.
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John Van Kuffeler (pictured), who retires from Provident Financial in January 2014, exits the company on the heels of a mediocre AGM. Shares of the money lending group were sold down to 1570p before they closed 83p down at 1600p after Kuffeler admitted that customer numbers had fallen.
The fashion retailer, founded as a market stall in Cheltenham before floating in 2010, said a revamp of womenswear helped deliver ‘solid’ sales growth.
The clothing chain needs to bring its computer systems and warehouses into the modern ages and will move from a network of 110 small sites to just three large ones.
The supermarket has been struggling to compete against rivals with some analysts concerned a move upmarket has alienated some of its core customers.
With savings rates at an all-time low, it has become even more important to think outside the box to make your nest egg work as hard as possible. Adrian Lowcock, of Hargreaves Lansdown, gives his three top tips for investors to beat inflation as savings rates continue to fall.
Tony and Pam Hughes are typical of the tens of thousands of elderly homeowners who face being forced to take sell or borrow more when interest-only loans become due.
StepChange reported that the over-60s clients that it advises have average debts of £22,999 each, versus an average of £17,635 across all clients.
The poll revealed that nearly two thirds of revellers would consider going to a European festival rather than one in the UK, according to research by money-saving website Watchmywallet.co.uk. It said that more than half of people travelling abroad for a festival did so because of the price of tickets in the UK, while a quarter said the greater chance of good weather was a major factor.
Holidaymakers face being denied medical help or having to pay huge hospital bills because clinics in cash-strapped EU nations are refusing to treat them.
Travelling abroad is costly enough without the added horror of returning home to find your bank statement littered with extra fees after using your card overseas.
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Young drivers who face steep costs for motor cover could save an average of £201 – or 12.5 per cent - by choosing telematics technology over a standard policy, research has found.
The former pop singer and reality TV star, who was declared bankrupt in 2008 for unpaid taxes, referred to her ‘money troubles’ in the ad for Cash Lady.
For almost half a century, many of the girls in the Ilkley Grammar School hockey team, main picture, have stayed close. Despite their lives going separate ways the bond from those happy times in Yorkshire has always remained. But now Denise MacGregor, bottom right, will get a poorer pension than Linda Hull, top right, simply because she's five months older.
There was more evidence of an improvement in the UK property market today, as the latest Halifax house price index showed property prices rose 1.1 per cent in April.
Savers wooed by M&S; Bank's top-paying cash Isa last year will see their rate cut again from Friday. The Advantage Cash Option Isa rate will fall to a tax-free 1.3%.
People tempted into buy-to-let are regularly putting down their life savings, or a substantial chunk, and many are taking their first foray into such investments. Yet like those with Bank of Ireland they are largely unprotected. So why do they remain unregulated?
The Association of Investment Companies has analysed all investment trusts to find the 20 strongest and most consistent performers of the last decade. Seven were UK Smaller Companies trusts and five Asia Pacific excluding Japan sector.
I decided to move my phone and broadband from Sky to a new supplier - Everything Everywhere (EE). However, I changed my mind and phoned EE to cancel. I also called Sky to say I would stay. I then lost access to my landline. The next day our landline came on again! Sky and EE say they are not the provider for this number.
On average parents have spent an extra £34 on their mobile phone and tablets bills because of accidental app and in-app purchases made by their kids, research by Windows Phone has claimed.
A price crash to $1,321.35 an ounce last month ignited a buying frenzy for gold bars and coins - but investment in gold ETFs is down as traders remain lukewarm.
Almost two million married retirees receive a state pension top-up based on their partner's work record. But this loophole will close to all claimants in 2016.
A one-bedroom flat in Wales may not be the most glamourous of property investments but it could be a wise one, according to a new in-depth buy-to-let report.
Vulnerable households are missing out on vital savings because energy firms have failed to insulate their homes. In a bid to reduce our carbon footprint, the Government set energy companies strict efficiency targets, which had to be met by December 2012.
Only the tax-free cash Isa from Virgin Money - which pays 3% - gives savers the chance of matching inflation, and only then if you are willing to tie up money for five years.
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The UK is ‘falling behind’ in the global economic race Labour claimed today as a study showed the economy was set to grow slower than 23 of the 33 western economies monitored by the International Monetary Fund. The TUC found among the G7 group of leading economies, only Italy had suffered a worse reaction to the economic catastrophe.
King remains as enthusiastic as ever about the job he is doing. But after nine years at the helm he must feel that the clock has started to tick.
HSBC boss Gulliver saw the bank post a 95 per cent increase in profits, then, asked whether Britain has finally emerged from the credit crunch, he said: ‘I think we are moving into calmer waters.’
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