Not many government websites offer visitors the chance to win £100,000 ($195,000, €127,000). Yet that is the prospect held out by the Office of Fair Trading, Britain’s competition watchdog, for informers who help bust corporate price-fixing conspiracies.

Global food shortages, soaring prices and alarm over the environment. But every day, Britain throws away 220,000 loaves of bread, 1.6m bananas, 550,000 chickens, 5.1m potatoes, 660,000 eggs, 1.2m sausages and 1.3m yoghurts

The head of the Financial Services Authority criticised building societies yesterday for slack management and told them to overhaul their systems and governance if they are to withstand shocks from the credit crunch.

The sign said that it was an Oxfam shop, but something was not quite right.

After two years of investigation, the Competition Commission finally announced a swathe of measures designed to curb the purchasing power of the supermarket giants on 30 April.

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