Royal Bank of Scotland under state control

Chancellor moves to take control of RBS with £20bn of taxpayers’ money and the Government is expected to take over HBOS

Call me Lord, says Baron of Hartlepool and Foy

New Business Secretary says that he wants to be known as 'plain Lord Mandelson' when he takes his seat in the Upper House

Cost of bailout rising as market falls

Even if the financial system is stabilised it may be too late to prevent a severe and perhaps prolonged global economic downturn

Girl, 13, given cancer vaccine ‘without consent’

Mother's claim that child received jab without consent sparks fresh row over mass vaccination of against cervical cancer

Flipping easy: how rich beat stamp duty

Iranian-born businessman reveals how the wealthy are using legitimate means to hide transactions involving vast sums

Mandelson joins richest Russian on superyacht

Peter Mandelson gave trade concessions worth up to £50m a year to Oleg Deripaska while European Union trade commissioner

Ministers to ban free drinks for women

Bars to be banned from offering free wine and beer tastings under new government restrictions to cut public drunkenness

Mine’s a double: Lord Peter reveals full title

Peter Mandelson will sit in the Lords as Baron of Foy in the county of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the county of Durham

Muslims rebuffed over sharia courts

Sadiq Khan, the new minister for race relations, says the Muslim community is not 'advanced' enough to have its own legal system

Financial crisis lifts Labour in polls

Latest poll for The Sunday Times finds that Labour have cut the Conservative's lead from 19% to 10% over the past month

Britain starts fight for billions in Iceland

Treasury officials have been sent to Reykjavik to repatriate the cash invested by councils and other public bodies

Government lambasted over 42-day detention

Gordon Brown is facing pressure to drop the plan days after a poll showed that fewer than one in three MPs thinks it will work

IMF warns of further market chaos

Chief economist says world is on the brink of financial meltdown as G7 finance ministers pledge to stave off slump

MoD loses 700,000 more personal records

Information Commissioner to investigate after EDS fails to find hard drive with details of Forces personnel and recruits

Forces chief faces new battle - the economy

Sir Jock Stirrup is fighting on three fronts, troops have been pushed to the limit and now there is the credit crunch

Icelanders wake up and smell ... the fish

Gordon Brown’s message came over loud and clear: Iceland has overstretched itself and has wrought damage beyond its shores

PM talks historical heroes and current economy

Gordon Brown used the likes of Picasso and General Sir William Slim of Burma to underline his leadership credentials

Let’s go back to 1944

Pascal Lamy, the head of the World Trade Organisation, called for the creation of a new Bretton Woods system

Many put their faith and cash in Iceland

Hospitals and universities are the latest victims of Icelandic banks as the huge scale of taxpayers’ investments emerge

Brown fights back

The Prime Minister invokes Picasso, Adam Smith and Field Marshall Montgomery in counter-attack at literary festival