UK Mortgages rates and deals

The pound has surged to its highest level this year against the world’s major currencies, propelled higher by growing investor confidence that the British economy is on the road to recovery

When summer heat is upon us, it’s hard to remember how cold we were just a few months before! Keeping ourselves cool in our homes is not just a simple matter of comfort: it’s also essential to maintaining good health Here are some tips on how to stay cool

US investor Len Blavatnik is offering £20m for a 51% stake in the troubled Irish pay-tv channel Setanta.

The Russian-born US citizen and billionaire is the white knight in talks with Setanta and has offered the embattled sports broadcaster a £20m lifeline in return for a controlling stake

BlackRock agreed to pay more than $13.5bn in cash and shares to buy Barclays Global Investors in a deal that will make the US money manager the biggest in the world

Thousands of Americans who have generally kept up with their mortgages are still in danger of losing their homes because they made a fateful trade-off in this shaky economy - they let their homeowner association dues slide.

The UK chancellor warned on Thursday Britain’s economic recovery could be held back by rising oil prices and a failure by other European countries to clean up their banks