Business

THE Office of Fair Trading last night defended taking four years and millions of pounds to discover that builders might just be at it.

MARKS and Spencer has launched a legal challenge against the Inland Revenue, claiming that every one of its 25,000 products is a cake.

BRITAIN'S houses are now worth less as homes than they are as individual bricks, it was claimed last night.

MORE than 50% of British households are switching energy supplier three times an hour, according to an industry survey.

BRITAIN'S leading mortgage lenders are to deter new customers with a range of tactics including man-eating tigers and a huge Arab warrior armed with a mighty sword.

THE Financial Services Authority could be stripped of some of its regulatory powers after admitting it didn't know what a bank was.

THOUSANDS of buy-to-let investors are ageing 1,000 years in around four seconds after receiving the latest valuations of their rented properties.

FINANCIAL watchdogs are to investigate malicious rumours that HBOS, one of Britain's leading banks, is run by filthy Scotsmen.

COMPETITION has intensified in the mobile phone market with rival companies offering a medium-sized bank with every new handset.

SUSPECTED Sainsbury's vegetable buyer John Maylam first gave himself away after spending thousands of pounds on a 180mph potato car, colleagues said last night.