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The number of people taking out mortgages with UK banks has fallen slightly, according to the British Bankers Association.

Diageo, the world's biggest Scotch whisky distiller, offers to sell the Whyte & Mackay business to appease competition authorities.

Universities Minister David Willetts has said that graduates whose student loans have been sold to a debt firm have, "no reason to be concerned".

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) was swept away by the coalition government earlier this year in a supposed revolution in regulation. It was replaced by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

The US SpaceX company will make its play on Monday to grab a big slice of the market for launching the world's TV and telecoms satellites.

What's it really like on Kiribati - poster island for climate change?

Heathrow Airport is to open a licensed electronic-cigarette zone, despite a ban on smoking and e-cigarettes in the rest of the airport.

A report claiming RBS put some "good and viable" businesses into default for profit has been referred to City regulators by the business secretary.

Barn owl nestlings recognise their siblings' calls, according to researchers.

The cost of pay day loans is to be limited by law.

The government sells a tranche of student loans to a private sector consortium for £160m, leaving the Student Loans Company free to concentrate on newer loans.

A team of amateur radio enthusiasts launch a tiny satellite into space to try to inspire schoolchildren to become the scientists and engineers of the future.

The race to commercialise marine renewable energy

Red squirrels at a National Trust reserve in Formby, Merseyside, have shown signs of resistance to the pox that has blighted the species, say scientists.

Researchers studying the pox virus that is blighting red squirrels demonstrate how they take blood samples from the wild animals.

The government is to introduce a new law to cap the cost of payday loans, with the level to be set by the new Financial Conduct Authority.

For a few days each year, a vast area off the Australian east coast becomes an underwater city of coral spawning.

Indonesian officials raise the alert status for the Mount Sinabung volcano in North Sumatra to the highest level, as it rumbles on.

For The Editors, a programme that sets out to ask challenging questions, the BBC' science editor David Shukman set out to find out why everyone was so angry about energy.

Apple purchases PrimeSense, an Israeli firm that specialises in making 3D motion detection technology.

A BBC investigation finds working conditions at an Amazon warehouse in the UK that an expert in stress says could cause "mental and physical illness".

Why is everyone so angry about electricity?

India needs help from foreign companies to finance infrastructure projects and help build better roads and ports. But what's the appetite for investing in India?

Oil prices fall after Iran agrees a deal to curb some of its nuclear activities in return for easing of international sanctions against it.

The government is accused of favouring Co-op Bank in the doomed sale of part of Lloyds TSB by the former head of one of its rival bidder.