The Bank voted to reduce the cost of borrowing on Thursday, but slashed its growth forecasts for the UK economy.

The actor and comedian was caught travelling at 97mph on the M6 near Telford, Staffordshire, in July last year.

Around 250,000 20p coins minted in November 2008 are believed to have entered circulation with no date. And now one has sold on eBay, attracting a winning bid of £97, 485 times its face value. The 50 ...

Those covered in the 60-minute film include Olive Gordon, a 25-year-old hairdresser, and Greek shipping titan Minas Kulukundis.

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, wrote of an unspecified great matter of state said to bear directly on the Queen’s life.