Sir Alan Budd, told MPs that the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR), would be beyond influence by the Treasury. Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe Pool/EPA The government’s tax and spending watchdog will need up to 100 Treasury civil servants to help it produce budget forecasts, but will... 

Cocaine, guns, sex and knife play — all part of life behind the scenes on the show “House M.D.” This according to a new lawsuit filed by a bitter ex-employee. In a lawsuit, filed in L.A. County Superior Court, a former assistant prop master named Carl Jones claims he was fired from the... 

Switching tariff not supplier is key to keeping energy bills low. Photograph: Alamy Householders may not have enjoyed the cold winter, but British Gas certainly did. It announced today a 98% rise in first-year profits following an 8% increase in gas use and, more ominously for householders,... 

Hugo, a bearded Collie, in the newly opened Metro Bank branch in Holborn, central London. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA Eli Negbi must really, really hate Barclays. He’s 57, and has banked with them for 27 years. But it’s 8am and he has queued patiently to become the first ever... 

So we can all agree that the Internet has literally changed the world, from the way we do business, how we communicate, meet people, how we shop, and the list can go on and on. Along with everything else that has become a bit easier because of online technology, buying and selling stocks is also included in this...