A six-year-old British boy was given an extraordinary prescription to treat a lazy eye - play video games.

Ben Michaels had been referred to the hospital after his school nurse saw the problem with his vision.

The four day event held at Ingliston, Edinburgh, it has been expected that more than 150,000 visitors would visit the 170th Royal Highland Show.

Last year, 176,000 people visited the show. The show aims to illustrate the best about Scottish farming, food and the countryside.

After launching a three-month appraisal to establish how it should work in practice, the coalition Government has rejected to rule out more delays to the proposed national workplace pension plan.

Lloyds TSB is to hack the overdraft charges on its present accounts from December.

From 2 December, it is slashing the daily and monthly charges for consumers, who go in debt without consent and will halve to £10 the charges for bouncing a check or electronic imbursement.

Defensives were supportive as the FTSE 100 sustained to slip last night, with Centrica taking pole spot along with hopefulness previous to its half-annual results, next month.

According to a research by the internet traffic supervisor, Hitwise, the shift of The Times website behind a Paywall has charged the online paper market share, but opponent websites are not gaining.

Times. co. uk that substitutes timesonline. co. uk, observed a dip in daily market share from 4.37% to 1.81% in May and its daily average traffic has nearly halved.

Mr. Paul Adams has been employed with BAT, since the year 1991. The 57-year-old has headed the cigarette manufacturing Company since 2004.

But now Adams feels that both the Company and he require change. Under the leadership of Mr. Adams, the Company has made acquisitions worth $5bn. These acquisitions include Tekel, which was formerly Turkey's state owned Company.

In a move to boost its finances, Avis Europe, has declared its plans to raise £151 million from investors. Avis Europe is a car hire group.

The rights issue is very economical and has got the green signal from D'Ieteren, which has 60% of the Company’s shares. D'Ieteren is a Company located in Brussels, which monitors services.

United Utilities has revealed that it may impose a ban on hosepipes. This Company supplies water to Northwest region, which is considered to be the wettest region in the country.

Six months ago the area was devastated with floods that knocked down the bridges and filled the roads with water. However, adequate water is not left in its reservoirs.

The new ruling coming in from the Financial Services Authority, the homeowners subscribing mortgage rates will be given a security.

FSA proclaimed today, that it will be launching new regulations, operational from June 30, which will provide safety to the weak homeowners who suffer corrupt sales and fall in the trap of financial complexity.