1,500 FACE LOSING JOBS AT WILKINSON

Discount retailer Wilkinson may shed up to 1,500 jobs next year if it adopts a new stock supply system, the company has confirmed.

BBC SHUNNED ME FOR DENYING CLIMATE CHANGE

FOR YEARS David Bellamy was one of the best known faces on TV.

How to get 50% off as desperate shops slash festive prices

The high street is trying to head off its worst Christmas in 25 years with price cuts of up to 50 per cent, heralding a bonanza weekend for shoppers.

Union in secret deal to save Labour from bankruptcy

Britain’s biggest union saved Labour from bankruptcy by guaranteeing its finances in a secret deal that the party is refusing to make public.

Police trainees in drugs arrest

Two women trainee police officers have been arrested on suspicion of possessing and supplying class A drugs.

Council tax rises ‘under control’

Ministers insisted council tax rates were “under control” as the government said it expected average bills to rise by less than 5% next year.

Europe backs mobile roaming cap

European telecoms chiefs have backed plans to make it cheaper to access data while on a mobile phone abroad.

‘Double-digit’ house price drop

House prices in England and Wales fell by 10.1% year-on-year in October, the Land Registry has said.

Drug firms ‘block cheap medicine’

Drug companies are blocking or delaying the entry of cheaper generic medicines into the EU, pushing up medicine bills, the European Commission has said.

Brown pledges Woolworths support

The government is working to ensure that Woolworths stores remain open over the Christmas period, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said.