The sale of the 4G network in the UK delivered a whopping £1.2 billion less than what George Osborne's estimate, giving an embarrassing setback to the Chancellor.

In December last year, Osborne plugged a huge black hole in the public finances by boldly predicting that the sale of the 4G network airwaves would garner £3.5 billion for the government.

Scottish hydro-electric owner SSE has announced that it would sell wind-farm interests in Scotland and Northern Ireland to Greencoat UK Wind.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) will have to pay £391 million ($612m) to the U. S. and British authorities to settle allegations of benchmark interest rates manipulation (Libor scandal).

There is a need to put the right checks and balances in place to ensure that children are safe online, Keith Towler, children's commissioner for Wales, said.

Towler said young people are sometimes much more savvy in the use of Internet than their parents but they needed to know their limits on the Internet.

In a recent radio interview, the commissioner stressed that children and young people were unable to make a distinction between their online and offline lives.

British inventor Sir James Dyson has claimed that the company's new Airblade Tap, which blows cold air at a speed of 450 miles per hour over the hands to dry them, would make huge cost as well as environmental savings.

As per Sir Dyson's claims, the new tap system that has inbuilt air dryers is a green as well as comparatively less expensive solution to scrape hands dry.

According to the recent report of the Health Protection Agency, among gay men who have sex, there is a risk of HIV. The report stated that this risk is at an all-time high. Every year the number of cases being reported is higher than before.

According to a report, it seems that hospitals are not learning from their mistakes and are repeating things that they should not. This is evident because members of the staff are risking a repeat of the Mid Staffordshire Trust scandal and this is so then problems can arise.