The bank said it wanted to reward staff for a stronger financial performance and for making progress on its three-year strategy overhaul.

National Crime Agency officers detained the men at addresses in Leicester, Birmingham, Essex and south London.

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has said it is a “major injustice” that no rugby league player has ever been knighted. Sir Lindsay said he has raised the issue with Sir Keir Starmer, and said “now ...

Jim Sharkey was working as a newsagent in the Co Tyrone town in 1998 when it was devastated by a Real IRA bomb.