The mutual is under growing pressure to give members a say in the takeover, which would make it Britain's seventh largest lender with £89 billion of assets.
Retired IT worker Peter Smith, 64, from Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, is in a 'critical, but stable' condition, following a bull shark attack in Tobago, in the Caribbean.
The father of former Essendon coach James Hird has called for a fresh investigation into the club's 2013 supplements scandal as WADA is being reviewed over Chinese swimmers and doping
Swimming roundup: O'Dell narrowly missed the county record in the 200-yard freestyle at the Trinity League finals while the Bulldogs claim their first Pacific Coast League title.
This week we have gone into the archives and picked out a series of photos from around 30 years ago looking at some of the swimmers and swimming teams which had attracted the attention of Bolton Evening News photographers