Campaigners trying to stop some of the UK's largest restaurant chains using customers' tips to top up staff pay took their message to the streets yesterday.

Ford is hoping to persuade its American customers of the charms of modestly sized European vehicles such as the Fiesta, the Focus and the Transit van as it struggles to find a way to reverse plummeting sales of its gas-guzzling range of larger US vehicles.

The Financial Services Authority believes traders who were trying to undermine a handful of fundraisings by major companies, notably HBOS, were deterred by its emergency rules on short selling.

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