Ooh goody. The big banks have made lots and lots of lovely profits.

The first thing they teach you at journalism school is that a story about a dog biting a person isn't really a news story at all. Man bites dog - now that's a story.

So the Government has launched a review of housing market statistics because it is concerned that the myriad methods used for calculating house prices may be causing confusion.

This Connaught stuff. All a bit of a mess really.

The BMF Members Day was everything that an event organized by a modern trade association should be.

It appears that some energy suppliers had the cheek to charge higher prices to householders wanting to have boilers installed under the last government's Boiler Scrappage Scheme.

According to the consumers organisation Which, the deals offering 'free' solar panels aren't such a great thing.

This government Green Deal is starting to look a little bit more complicated. Now climate minister Greg Barker has announced (at a Tory Conference fringe meeting) that big retailers like Tesco, Marks & Spencer and B&Q could be selling insulation and home energy efficiency measures under the deal as a way of getting more householders…

So, next week's Comprehensive (not) Spending (anything) Review. Is it going to be as bad as we think it will be?

Well, the Construction Products Association warned us last month that we couldn't take the growth in construction output for granted. Looks like they were right.