Chancellor Alistair Darling today launched a drastic rescue of Britain's high street banks in move designed to head off a cataclysmic failure of confidence by announcing a part-nationalisation plan with £50 billion of taxpayers' money. He said there ...

Taxpayers will be committed today to providing more than £50 billion to bail out high street banks in an attempt to avert a cataclysmic failure of confidence. Alistair Darling was due to tell the City in an early morning announcement today that the ...

Projects aimed at bringing Suffolk's history to life have been boosted with a £1.2m investment from the Heritage Lottery Fund. Officials at the National Trust spoke of their delight today after Ickworth House, near Bury St Edmunds, was awarded ...

The National Gallery of Scotland has acquired two Old Master paintings with the help of grants totalling £180,000 from The Art Fund. The Gallery has purchased ‘The Transfiguration’ by Lodovico Carracci (£500,000), and ‘The Miracle of the ...