Families '£10 better off this year'Families are around £10 a week better off than they were a year ago due to the sharp fall in interest rates seen during the past 12 months, research has showed.
'50,000 finance jobs lost' in yearMore than 50,000 finance jobs have been lost in the past year despite tens of billions of pounds spent shoring up the industry, a study showed.
Bank lent £61.6bn to RBS and HBOSThe Bank of England has revealed it lent Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and HBOS £61.6 billion in a "dire emergency" at the height of the financial crisis.