Microsoft profits soar days after announcing thousands of layoffs

Microsoft posts $36.6bn profit after offering buyouts to one in four workers

The week, the Windows developer said it would offer buyouts to 60,000 workers as it looks to curb costs.

‘Budget is bold enough’ despite limited ‘room for manoeuvre’, Andy Burnham says

The influential Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank said the Budget’s ‘raft of fiddly measures’ would do little to b…

I earn £30,000. I'm angry there was no fuel duty cut in the Budget

People on a range of incomes from £4,062 to £150,000 a year tell the BBC what they made of this year's Budget.