As part of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, all banks and building societies will be forced to pay the interest on the loan. The 59 building societies have to pay some 18% of the amount, around £81 million a year. The Building Societies Association is furious. BSA Director General Adrian Coles told the BBC he believes that is unfair: "It is galling that those institutions that beh...

The Dunfermline Building Society has collapsed and is to be put on the market by the government, BBC Scotland learns.

Good morning, and welcome to Daily View on the day which sees New York’s Chrysler Building celebrate its 80th birthday. Completed in 1930, it was the tallest building in the world for all of 11 months, before being replaced by the Empire State Building. After 9/11, it is once again the second tallest building

According to Associated Press “There was no panic as EU workers stood outside of the building in Brussels”. An EU spokesman tells the BBC that the fire broke out in the press room of the EU building - “There are no reports of casualties”. UKIP possibly getting a little carried away with their anti-EU campaign…

Reading David Rothkopf's brutal takedown of the U.S. Commerce Department, where he once worked, I was immediately reminded of a question that has been nagging at me for months: Why is the National Aquarium in the basement of the Commerce Building? Rothkopf's answer: There is an aquarium in the Commerce Building for the same reason there is anything else in the Commerce Building. There wa...

Gordon Brown yesterday made his clearest pledge yet that he will lift restrictions preventing councils from building more homes, possibly by allowing more of them to set up construction companies or providing short term finance for stalled public-private building programmes. Downing Street policymakers regard councils as one of the quickest ways to keep a house building programme alive because the...

Building up traffic to a local party or councillor website is much like building up a delivery network: it brings big benefits, but it’s not the sort of thing you can do overnight. They are both best achieved by making slow and steady progress over a period of time. Steadily work your way down the

As we all know and have sniggered about the Parliament's Strasbourg HQ has had a few troubles of late. But I can hereby reveal the reason behind the mystery of the new wing of the Brussels building and why it is over a year behind. The new building, currently called BD5 is a 39,000 sq metre extension full of offices and large conference rooms. And was supposed to have been open over a year ag...

The Greenpeace ecoterrorists that broke into Kingsnorth power station during a protest against the proposed building of a new, cleaner coal powered station on to replace the current one, have been acquitted of charges of criminal damage. The ecoterrorists broke into the power station and climbed the chimney during their protest causing the power station to

A new academic study of 99 people suggests the choice of building for a polling station can have an impact on people's political outlooks.