The cost of raising a child to 21 has reached £218,000 according to research

All your money questions answered on employee pensions, mileage expenses and annuities

Research reveals 76% of Brits use the same password for multiple accounts

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Around 20 blunderbusses – an early version of the shotgun – were sold at a specialist arms sale late last year. The earliest models date back to the 17th Century but they fell out of use by the middle of the 19th Century, when they were replaced by carbine rifles.

AS arctic conditions hit the UK, households are being warned to take action to avoid the nightmare of frozen and burst pipes.

LEEDS Building Society has launched a range of fixed rate ISAs with access to your cash without penalties.

Robert Powell takes a look at credit cards with lengthy interest-free periods on both new purchases and balance transfers…

A STAGGERING £20billion of means-tested benefits and tax credits goes unclaimed each year.

The Nasdaq stock index surged to its highest level in 11 years, after data showed US unemployment fell significantly in January.

The chief of the world's second-biggest consumer goods company has defended his position on scrapping the firm's final salary pension scheme.

Stripping Fred Goodwin of his title was unquestionably a piece of political theatre, one callously contrived to appease the public supposedly howling for bankers' blood. It's been done as a conceit to buy future votes and has more in common with the way those in the Wild West scalped their victims than the judicial process you would expect to find in a mature democracy like the UK.

Leading City institutions fear that the new Financial Services Bill, which is being debated tomorrow, fails to include a clause which will allow the proposed regulation enough scope to protect the UK's international competitiveness.

A titanic transatlantic battle over the British remnants of the banking empire once headed by the disgraced Texan financier Allen Stanford is being fought out in the UK criminal and supreme courts.

Facebook is planning to announce that advertising will soon be allowed on its mobile apps, a move designed to bolster its flotation price.

BP's chief executive, Bob Dudley, is expected to increase the oil giant's dividend for the first time since it was reinstated for the end of 2010 after a six-month suspension.

Bank charges for transferring money overseas cost British business £356m a year.

British fund managers have started buying Italian bonds again, after European Central Bank moves to make investment less risky.