News from the BBC

Banks face pressure on rate cut

MPs pressure banks to pass on 1% cut in interest rates to customers as HBOS offers only 0.25%.

Warning over internet painkillers

Prescription-only painkillers available to purchase over the internet could be 'deadly' say experts.

Global crisis ends Honda F1 dream

Japanese car giant Honda is quitting Formula One blaming the world economic crisis and at a cost of 800 jobs to the UK.

Serbia's hunt for Mladic broadens

Serbian police launch raids in Belgrade in an intensified hunt for war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, but no-one is arrested.

Plan for £12m stroke ad campaign

A campaign will be launched by the government in the new year to help people remember what the first symptoms of stroke are.