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Business Secretary Vince Cable praised Financial Mail last week for putting together a celebration of small firms and British manufacturing with our first Made in Britain awards.

An ice cream seller caught on film in a fracas with a rival vendor in a Blackburn street gets a suspended prison sentence.

A "concrete timetable" is needed for extending the HS2 high speed rail network to Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Scottish government urges.

The 'electronic hymnals' have a vast repertoire of music and have already been credited with helping churches to revive flagging congregations.

Footage shows a distressed toddler being rescued by helicopter from the back of a truck caught in sudden flood water. One man has died and others are reported missing as bad weather sweeps south towards Sydney.

The French wrested control of the airport at Mali's largest northern city under cover of darkness, in a major breakthrough in its effort to rout the rebels from power.

The roof of an out-of-service double-decker bus is ripped off when it gets stuck under a railway bridge.

One of Wales' largest teaching unions threatens to strike over the Welsh government's new plans to improve literacy and numeracy standards.

Tighter measures and co-ordinated action lead to a drop in copper cable theft - but BT warns against complacency.

The value of new equity release plans jumped 17 per cent in 2012, according to a new study. Janet Wainwright chose to start an equity release plan with Stonehaven, drawing a lump sum to clear her debts.

Just eight years ago, half of existing final salary schemes were open to new members, but that number fell to just 13 per cent in 2012, a survey from the National Association of Pension Funds has revealed.

A Royal Navy submarine is ruled out of involvement in the sinking of a French trawler and the deaths of its crew off Cornwall in 2004.

The UK savings arm of Icelandic bank Landsbanki collapsed along with its parent in 2008 and left 300,000 British savers in limbo after it had attracted custom by offering best-buy high-interest accounts.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is examining interest-only mortgages as the time approaches when large numbers of the loans sold during the credit boom become due for repayment.