Tash Shifrin

The U.K. government is to appeal to the high court against a ruling that it must publish "gateway reviews" on the progress of its

U.K. online retail sales have topped

Connecting for Health, which runs the NHS National Programme for IT has confirmed that problems with a software upgrade in Manchester led to hundreds of duplicate patient records being created. The existence of duplicate records could lead to doctors receiving incomplete clinical information where updates have been made to a patient's other record.

Barclays bank is set to cut 1,100 jobs including IT support staff and payment processing posts as it automates check handling processes.

The U.K. Post Office has launched a barcode for cash service aimed at providing businesses with a way to offer their customers promotional incentives or payments cheaply and speedily.

The results of Scotland's elections have been thrown into chaos and results delayed by technical problems with the newly introduced electronic counting system.

The U.K. Department of Health has been forced to apologize after the personal details of hundreds of doctors -- including home addresses, phone numbers, sexual orientation and previous convictions -- were made available online.

London's Metropolitan Police is set to make a series of key IT spending decisions over the next three years, before a "lockdown" to prevent disruption close to the 2012 Olympics, analysts have predicted.