Welcome to the Money blog, our personal finance and consumer hub. Today: we report on an index of the happiest places to retire in Britain and three broadband providers have confirmed price hikes. Our ...

Scots are proud of our banknotes - and might even have a story of them being refused - so here is the run-down ...

More than 60,000 Palestinians now dead in Israel’s war on Gaza as deadly hunger continues to grip the Gaza Strip.