Hull City owner Assem Allam formally applies to the Football Association to change the club's name to Hull Tigers.

Trainer Gerard Butler lodges an appeal against a five-year ban for injecting racehorses with banned drugs.

Universities have been forced to extend deadlines because software used to catch plagiarism stopped working.

Royal Mail, the newly-privatised postal service, is to join the FTSE 100 index of blue-chip companies following its strong share price surge.

The Royal Bank of Scotland is fined $100m by US regulators for violating US sanctions against Iran, Sudan, Burma, and Cuba.

The BBC Trust says it stands by Nick Pollard's review into Newsnight's dropped investigation into Jimmy Savile despite criticism from a Tory MP.

A senior Bank of England adviser questions the efficacy of one of governor Mark Carney's key policies, citing worries that the public do not understand it.

The autobiography from actor David Jason, schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai's story of being shot by the Taliban and David Walliams' latest children's book are winners at the Specsavers National Book Awards