Officials signed a lease on premises in Victoria Street, Central London, for staff who are required to leave their current building on Millbank, near Parliament, to make way for some MPs.

Neil Swift, Marcine Waterman (pictured) and Jon Hayes will keep the lump sums handed to them when Whitehall’s Audit Commission was wound up after a spate of extravagant spending.

Top Gear makes the BBC £50million-a-year. But with Evans (pictured) relatively unknown outside of Britain, finance chiefs at BBC Worldwide are now worrying about how global fans will take to him.

Hospital accounts for London NHS trusts revealed bosses earning over £250,000 a year. Many will get pension pots of more than £1 million. Mark Ogden earned £280k at Barts, pictured.

Eurotunnel spokesman John Keefe said the company hopes that less lorries travelling from France overnight on Saturday would mean fewer disruptions from migrants trying to break in.

Jeremy Clarkson, who was sacked as presenter of the BBC’s Top Gear in March, wasted no time jabbing the knife in as he hit out at those at the top of the Corporation over the BBC’s ‘luvvies letter’.

The corporation is spending more money on retaining big names such as Gary Lineker and Graham Norton, with the bill for the highest-paid stars rising by a fifth.

The London Mayor said a tax cut for the wealthy cannot be supported until business leaders pay their staff a living wage which means they do not have to rely on welfare to top up their income.

There are plenty of named wrongdoers in the ignition-switch scandal, but that may not be good enough for prosecutors mulling criminal charges.

The Crown Prosecution Service have launched a review of the case following an inquest verdict of unlawful killing, when the jury found that Thomas Cook had breached its duty of care to the children.