One of the world's highest paid bankers, Bob Diamond, is to become chief executive of Barclays Bank as HSBC chairman Stephen Green steps down to become a trade minister in the government.
Severe disruption is expected on London Underground on the first morning of a series of 24-hour strikes.
A remembrance service is to be held later to mark the 70th anniversary of the start of the Blitz.
Connaught, the property services group that specialises in social housing, is on the brink of going into administration, the BBC learns.
Plans to change the way MPs are elected to Parliament survive their first Commons hurdle - despite criticism from Tory MPs.