Martin Jol will remain at Ajax next season but Fulham do not feel he used their interest to serve his own ends. Photograph: Joe Giddens/Empics Sport/PA Sven-Goran Eriksson would welcome the invitation to manage Fulham and is a leading contender, along with Ottmar Hitzfeld, as the west London... 

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... 

The government has cut funding for speed cameras. Photograph: Mark Sykes/Alamy Age: 105. In modern guise, about 20. Appearance: Malevolent/reassuring. Either way, all over the place like a rash. But not for much longer, I hear. That’s right. Oxfordshire council is turning off all 72 of... 

Microsoft said it has now sold 175m Windows 7 licences. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Microsoft added to the growing sense of recovery in the technology sector last night by reporting record quarterly revenues, driven by strong sales. The software giant pipped Apple, one of its greatest... 

Hypo Real Estate was one of seven European banks to fail a health check on the day that seven US institutions were taken into federal receivership. Photograph: Diether Endlicher/AP More than 100 banks in the US have now collapsed so far this year after another seven were taken over by regulators...