David Cameron is struggling to live up to his promise to create a family-friendly United Kingdom, a charity has claimed. The coalition government s...

We need to resist our innate desire to blame and to hate. It's not how we got to here that matters; it's what we're going to do about it now that we are.

Hope is a delicate flower. For the young it can die quickly and the resulting despair can be very destructive. Once lost it may never return.

Mary Portas may have many talents, including a gravity-defying Lego-man bob, but I'm pretty sure that no matter how much effort she puts into revamping the New Look changing rooms, she's not going to be able to singlehandedly waft away the recession and solve poverty and unemployment - because that's what it's really going to take to help the high street.

By all accounts we could be two or three years into what is already being called 'The Lost Decade'. Disruption, the like of which we saw this summer, will not help the UK address the real challenge we face - how to compete with emerging nations and how to secure our future.

The UK economy will grow slower in 2012 than it did this year, according to a new report from the National Institute for Economic and Social Research ...

Growth in the German economy slowed sharply between April and June and was weaker at the start of the year than previously thought, figures show. ...

Rail commuters are to face average fare hikes of eight per cent next year as official figures showed the retail prices index had remained unchanged in...

Increased fuel expenses, soaring car insurance premiums and a disproportionate cost of living has left mums with little option but to take shorter journeys - or leave the car in the garage altogether and walk.