Pair must take bid directly to HBOS investors

12:07am Monday 10th November 2008

Sir Peter Burt and Sir George Mathewson, the banking knights now jousting with the board of Halifax Bank of Scotland, will have to take their fight directly to the bank’s shareholders this week.

Brown to call for global unity on financial crash

Monday 10th November 2008

Gordon Brown will today call for a “new multilateralism” to help overcome the world’s financial problems, stressing Britain’s role in collaborating with America and Europe to implement fiscal reforms.