FAQ Secure Loans Secured loans can be an efficient short or long-term funding solution for UK homeowners. If you are in need of money and have equity in your property, you are eligible to apply for a secured loan. Secured loans are sometimes called “second mortgages” as they rank after your mortgage as security... 

The fate of a network of charging points to power low-emission cars also hangs in the balance. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images A government grant scheme to give motorists up to £5,000 off the cost of a new electric car has been cut by 80%, opposition politicians and green campaigners... 

Richard Desmond: paying £103.5m for Channel Five. Photo by Dan Chung Photograph: Dan Chung Channel Five has been sold to Richard Desmond, owner of the Daily Express, for £103.5m. RTL Group announced at shortly after 5pm that it had signed an agreement for the sale of Five Group to Desmond’s... 

Recession worries appear to be cutting voter support for the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Voters fear the return of recession and are divided on cuts in state spending, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. A narrow majority also believe... 

Shanghi Tales, BBC4. Photograph: BBC/Amber/DTP/Jing Guo & dingding Ke/Amber/DTP Celebrity Come Dine With Me8pm, Channel 4 Calum Best, Samantha Fox and Jeff Brazier fight for breath as Janice Dickinson sucks the oxygen out of the room at four consecutive dinner parties. She zeroes in on...