The Bank of England is set to cut interest rates to the lowest in its 315-year history when it makes its monthly decision later.

Fashion students in the Borders attempt to give a new feel to a most traditional clothing item.

A court hears how four teenagers returned items they stole from a house along with a card saying they were "very sorry".

Ten items of Welsh Assembly Government data are lost or stolen over the last year, an AM discovers.

Imported whisky is Venezuela's favourite drink but will economic problems blunt the taste for a perceived luxury item, asks the BBC's Will Grant in Caracas.

Books, sweets and even Brussels sprouts are among the unwanted Christmas items being auctioned online.

As people contemplate unwanted Christmas gifts, what rights do people have to return them?

Dangerous items have been removed from sale following a sweep of shops in East Yorkshire.

Unique items of silver, thought to be worth about £30,000, are stolen from an Oxfordshire village church.

The biggest injury risk from toys this Christmas is from people tripping over them, according to trading standards officers.

The Jolie-Pitt brood exchange home-made gifts rather than buy presents. But do children still revel in making stuff from cereal packets and toilet rolls? Yes, says Blue Peter editor Tim Levell.

If the economic downturn is denting your present-buying prowess, seek solace in second hand bargains

A raid on a jeweller's in Chobham which saw items worth more than £300,000 taken is reconstructed.

Meet Andrew Smyth from our panel of families charting how the economic sqeeze is affecting them

Dundee becomes the first city in Scotland to launch a new way of buying low-cost items.

Among items bought by members of the Welsh assembly on expenses were two iPods and an office vacuum cleaner.

Singer Michael Jackson is arranging an auction at which he plans to sell items including the gates from the famed Neverland ranch.

Fake designer goods with an estimated street value of £3.6m are seized from a ship at Grangemouth.

A new exhibition of Egyptian artefacts, including items dating back to 1180 BC, go on display on Merseyside.

Residents who put wrong items in recycling bins may not have them emptied, warns a Nottinghamshire council.