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Two drivers working for the owners of Cornish pasty makers Ginsters were killed and a third was injured in the horrific M5 crash, the company has said.
Leicestershire-based food producer Samworth Brothers confirmed that two of its staff were among the seven people who died in the 34-vehicle pile-up on the motorway in Somerset on Friday night.
Police are focusing their attention on the theory that the 34-vehicle pile-up, which claimed seven lives and left 51 injured, was caused by smoke from a rugby club fireworks event drifting onto the M5.
Officers said the theory that smoke from the display had drifted on to the M5 in Somerset and caused the crash is now their "main line of inquiry".
Avon and Somerset Police are yet to confirm the identities of any of the seven victims, but revealed they are now conducting a criminal, as well as a road policing, investigation. On Sunday night the stricken section of motorway, which had been closed since Friday night's tragedy, was reopened.
Elderly couple Anthony and Pamela Adams, from Newport, South Wales, have been named locally as being among the victims of Friday's pile-up.
It has been reported the crash has left a young woman in a coma and her wheelchair-bound father and sister dead. Emma Barton, believed to be 19, was said to have been travelling in a car with her boyfriend Christopher Burbull, father Michael and sister Maggie when they were caught up in the chaos.
Reports suggest the group had been to a funeral and were returning to the Barton family home in Windsor, Berkshire. Mr Burbull, of Slough, Berkshire, was also admitted to hospital following the crash, it was said.
Another possible casualty was named as Malcolm Beacham, from Woolavington in Somerset, who is said to be the event co-ordinator of a re-enactment group. One comment, left on the Living History website by a user named Martin, said: "For those that had the privilege of knowing him Malcolm was a fantastic guy, a true stalwart of the re-enactment community from The Company Of Chivalry, he was involved in the accident on the M5 on Friday, you will be sorely missed m8."
Police said witnesses had reported "significant smoke" across the carriageway that was "impossible to drive through". Taunton Rugby Club announced in a statement that it is "working closely with Avon and Somerset Police to assist with their investigations".
The faltering powerhouse services sector is pushing the UK economy to the brink of a double-dip recession, a business report has said.
The economy faces a serious risk of contraction as early as the fourth quarter or first three months of 2012, the latest Business Trends report by accountants and business advisers BDO found.
BDO issued the warning after its Output Index - which measures turnover expectations over the next three months - fell to 92.6 in October from 93.3 in September, its lowest level since June 2009.
It is the third consecutive month that the index has been below the critical 95.0 mark indicating on-trend growth, showing that the UK economy could already be contracting.
Peter Hemington, partner at BDO LLP, said: "We urge the Chancellor to tackle the slowing recovery head-on in his autumn statement. Supply side reforms, in particular reform of the tax system, will be crucial if the UK is to promote investment."
Gross domestic product grew at a slightly better-than-expected 0.5% between July and September but economists warned the figures overstated the underlying health of the economy.
There was some cheer from BDO as its Optimism Index - which predicts business confidence two quarters ahead - edged up from 93.4 in September to 94.1 in October, propelled by the improving morale of UK manufacturers.
However, prospects for the first quarter of 2012 continue to look fragile as the index still trails below the 95.0 mark.
The faltering economic recovery can be largely attributed to a slowdown in the crucial services sector, BDO said, which makes up three-quarters of the UK's economic output.
The Output Index for the services sector fell by a full point in October to 92.9 while the Optimism Index also decreased, from 94.8 in September to 94.1 in October.
More than 95% of the population will be within 10 miles of the Olympic torch next year as it makes a snaking journey to London's Olympic Stadium.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) confirmed all the communities through which the Olympic flame will be carried by torchbearers during the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay.
On parts of the journey it will go via horseback, bicycle, tram and steam train.
Organisers said the torch will go through 1,018 villages, towns and cities and will be within an hour's journey of 95% of the UK population. The relay will also take in hundreds of landmarks including Snowdon, Stormont, Loch Ness and Stonehenge.
The street by street detail of the route will be confirmed next year.
Every county in England and every local authority area in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales will host the flame, with welcomes reaching as far north as Lerwick in Scotland to St Helier in the south, Lowestoft in the east and Enniskillen in the west.
Many thousands of people are expected to welcome the flame along the route each day and celebrate the achievements of the torchbearers in parks, squares and streets right around the UK.
Lord Coe, LOCOG chairman, said: "I'm delighted that the Olympic torch relay will take the 2012 Games to almost every corner of the UK and that we have achieved our ambition to take the flame to within an hour's journey of 95% of the population.
"Now everyone is invited to plan their welcome and find out where they can go to be part of this historic occasion. The Olympic Games are coming to you as the Olympic flame gives our people and places their moment to shine."
Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, said: "The flame's journey is steeped in the rich history of the Olympic Games, travelling from Athens then right around the UK. I encourage everyone to get out and take part in the excitement of the torch relay as it comes through their town."
Police have launched an investigation after Queens Park Rangers football star Anton Ferdinand was sent a threatening letter in the post.
Metropolitan Police officers were called after the document, which reportedly contained a death threat, arrived at the club's ground in west London last week.
The Sun said the contents of the letter were so graphic that QPR officials did not show it to the defender, who is at the centre of a race row involving England captain John Terry.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said: "I can confirm that officers are investigating an allegation of malicious communication."
The letter was delivered by hand to the Premier League team's ground Loftus Road last Friday, according to reports.
Ferdinand, 26, was the alleged victim of a racist comment made by Terry during QPR's match with Chelsea at Loftus Road last month.
The 30-year-old Chelsea skipper denies the claims, which are being investigated by the Met and the Football Association.
Details of a £500 million fund to help kick-start housing and infrastructure development have been announced by the Government.
The Growing Places Fund will help "get Britain building again" by covering up-front capital costs that are preventing projects getting off the ground, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles said.
It was unveiled at the Liberal Democrat party conference in September and is designed to unlock jobs potential by offering loans up front that are paid back after developments are eventually sold off.
Now the Government has published a list of provisional allocations to each of the 38 local enterprise partnerships introduced by the coalition Government.
Led by businesses and councils, the partnerships will make decisions on how the money is spent in their areas.
"The £500 million Growing Places Fund will unlock much-needed local infrastructure and get the homes we need built," Mr Pickles said. "It will be local enterprise partnerships, made up of the people and businesses who know their local areas best, who will decide where this cash boost will be spent. I now want to see these partnerships coming together and finding innovative ways to unlock local sites and help get Britain building again."
The kind of projects which may be helped via the scheme include road network improvements and infrastructure to deal with flooding, enabling homes to be built
Shadow communities secretary Hilary Benn said the announcement was an admission by the Government that abolishing regional development agencies (RDAs) was a "mistake".
"If this funding is simply to help the new local enterprise partnerships do some of the work that was previously done by the RDAs, unlocking and co-ordinating investment projects, but with much less funding, then people will feel short-changed," he said.
"Given this Conservative-led Government's history of failure to get money to businesses that need it through the other schemes they've announced and reannounced, they should make sure that this time the money speedily gets to the local authorities, businesses and entrepreneurs who will be at the heart of the economic recovery the country desperately needs."
Increasing the number of public sector employees working from home or on flexi-time would generate around £8 billion a year, new research has shown.
The move would cut office costs by freeing up desk space, reducing sickness levels and increasing productivity by between 5, according to the Leaner and Greener II: Putting Buildings to Work report.
A 5% increase would equate to £8 billion of staff time, it claims
The report, launched by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles, calls on public services to share back-office accommodation, depots and customer service desks to save cash.
It also suggests local services, such as councils, health organisations and emergency services, should pool their property assets so buildings can be used for the best purpose in that area.
Mr Pickles called on civil servants to be "ruthless" in finding ways to cut costs.
He said: "Taxpayers have the right to expect public servants to be ruthless in the pursuit of good value - and utterly unforgiving of bureaucracy. The best councils are doing everything in their power to make taxpayers' money go further. Cutting out waste, sharing back offices and redesigning services.
"This report clearly shows how it is possible to deliver real savings and other benefits. The expertise is there, the experience is there. Time to get on and do it".
The inquiry was carried out by Westminster Sustainable Business Forum (WSBF), which is made up of businesses, government agencies and parliamentarians.
More than 1,000 jobs are in jeopardy after the failure of a push by Carphone Warehouse and America's Best Buy to crack the UK electronics market.
Best Buy's 11 "big box" stores will close by the end of 2011 after it made losses of £46.7 million in the six months to September and Carphone said current trading conditions meant the venture did not have a viable future.
Carphone and its partner Best Buy launched their joint-venture in 2008 with a promise to shake up a market dominated by Currys and PC World owner Dixons Retail and Comet, although the first store did not open until 2010.
Best Buy originally planned 200 stores in Europe by 2013, and hoped to undercut the competition on price and offer American-style customer service.
Despite a £1.1 billion investment, its launch coincided with the downturn, which saw a substantial drop in demand for sales of TVs, video consoles and computers, while the growing popularity of the internet added to its woes.
Other retailers such as Comet owner Kesa Electricals and Dixons have issued profit warnings in recent months.
Carphone said it hopes to find work for the "large majority" of 1,100 staff within its 805 stores in the UK, which are increasingly focusing on selling more electrical goods such as smartphones and tablet computers, particularly through its Wireless World format.
Best Buy Europe chief executive Andrew Harrison said: "The technology world has changed substantially since 2008 and we are confident we will best serve our customers by investing in a single brand and format rather than two."
Best Buy UK has big box stores in Aintree, Bristol, Croydon, Derby, Enfield, Hayes, Hedge End, Merry Hill, Nottingham, Rotherham and Thurrock.
Best Buy UK expects further losses of between £25 million and £30 million before the shops are closed. The cost of closing the stores will be up to £75 million, while write-downs of £45 million in the value of the business are also expected.
A council has called in the police after the body of a former soldier who died in police custody turned up in a mortuary more than a decade after he was believed to have been buried.
Christopher Alder, 37, choked to death while handcuffed and lying on the floor of a police station in Hull, in the early hours of April 1 1998.
It now appears a Hull pensioner called Grace Kamara was buried in his place in 2000.
Mrs Kamara is understood to have died from natural causes in 1999 but her burial was delayed and finally scheduled for Friday.
It appears the blunder was only discovered because her friends and family asked to see the body and Mr Alder's remains were found in its place in the mortuary.
On Sunday Nicola Yates, chief executive of Hull City Council, apologised and launched an investigation.
Now she says the police are being brought in.
She said: "As chair of the multi-agency group dealing with the tragic circumstances around Grace Kamara and Christopher Alder, I have requested that the police undertake a criminal investigation into this extremely distressing case.
"As I said last night, I am appalled and distraught at what we have learned and my first priority has been to make sure the families involved are kept informed and given the necessary support.
"It is vital that the families and the public get a clear view of the facts and understand what happened. A thorough police investigation will make sure this happens. Now that the police are carrying out a formal investigation it would be inappropriate for me to comment further."
Most financial sector professionals think City traders are paid too much, a think-tank report has revealed.
The report from the St Paul's Institute, called Value and Values: Perceptions of Ethics in the City Today, was based on a survey of 515 people taken by market research company ComRes in August.
It revealed that 66% of respondents believed City traders are paid too much. FTSE 100 chief executives, stockbrokers, lawyers and bankers were also considered overpaid.
Respondents were questioned about the ethics of their salaries and bonuses, corporate social responsibility, and the history of the financial services sector.
Two thirds of respondents said that "salary and bonuses" is the most important motivation for financial services professionals, with "enjoyment of work" coming a distant second.
The survey found that 75% agreed there is too great a gap between rich and poor in the UK.
Only 14% of respondents correctly recalled the motto of the London Stock Exchange - "Dictum Meum Pactum" ("My Word is My Bond").
Just over half believed deregulation of financial markets results in less ethical behaviour.
The think-tank is linked to St Paul's Cathedral in London, where protesters against corporate greed have been demonstrating since last month.
The survey, carried out between August 30 and September 12, was commissioned to mark the 25th anniversary of the financial Big Bang, referring to the deregulation of the London Stock Market in 1986.
A leading hospital has won its High Court battle over a consultation exercise which led to proposals to close down its children's heart surgery unit.
The Royal Brompton in Chelsea, west London, said its future is in doubt if the closure - an act it describes as "bureaucratic vandalism" - goes ahead.
A judge has ruled that the consultation exercise was "unlawful and must therefore be quashed".
The prospect of Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi stepping down has teased investors back to the market although concerns remain over his country's increasingly fragile finances.
Mr Berlusconi, who is struggling to pass economic reforms to tackle Italy's debt pile, denied he was set to resign, but the rumours saw the FTSE 100 Index claw its way out of the red to stand 0.2% higher.
Wall Street's Dow Jones Industrial Average was also up despite Italy's borrowing costs soaring into "bailout territory" as investors lose confidence in the country's ability to pay its debts.
The developments in Italy, which is the eurozone's third-largest economy and has debts worth 120% of national income, pulled focus away from Greece, where Prime Minister George Papandreou resigned.
Kathleen Brooks, research director at Forex, said rumours of the Italian Prime Minister's resignation and retractions were likely to continue to trigger volatility on the markets.
She said: "Either way, the end seems to be getting closer for Berlusconi and it is getting harder for Italy to avoid a bailout."
The yield on Italian 10-year bonds rose from 6.37 amid increased political uncertainty as Mr Berlusconi prepares for a crunch vote on public finances.
Investors retreated from the markets earlier amid fears the country would follow Greece, Ireland and Portugal in needing a bailout from the EU and IMF.
Ms Brooks added: "It's hard to see how investors can live with Italy on the cusp of a bailout, so risk is likely to remain under pressure in the near term."
The banking sector continued to come under pressure despite the turnaround on the wider market, with Lloyds Banking Group down 2%, Barclays falling 1. Elsewhere in Europe, Germany's Dax and the Cac-40 in France edged back into the black.
The head of the UK border force "authorised the wider relaxation of border controls without ministerial sanction", Home Secretary Theresa May has said.
Brodie Clark has been suspended amid reports that border guards were told not to bother checking fingerprints and other personal details against a Home Office database of terror suspects and illegal immigrants.
Mrs May told MPs that while ministers had started a pilot project "targeting intelligence-led checks on higher-risk" passengers, Mr Clarke "authorised the wider relaxation of border controls without ministerial sanction" this summer.
David Cameron has full confidence in Mrs May, who has not offered to resign as a result of the controversy, said the Prime Minister's official spokesman. He revealed that Mr Cameron was not informed of the decision to relax the checks over the summer, saying it was an operational decision to be taken within the department.
"He is obviously very concerned about these issues," the spokesman said. "There is clearly now an investigation under way, looking into precisely what happened."
Asked whether the Prime Minister was aware of the decision to relax checks, the spokesman said: "On that kind of operational decision it is normal for departmental ministers to have oversight."
He added that neither Mrs May nor Immigration Minister Damian Green had offered to resign over the issue.
The relaxation of border controls is thought to have allowed hundreds of thousands of people to enter Britain without proper checks. Mrs May is facing Labour demands to disclose whether any terror suspects are believed to have entered the country after border guards were instructed not to carry out certain passport checks.
According to reports, border guards were told this summer not to bother checking biometric chips on the passports of citizens from outside the European Union to ensure they are not fraudsters.
The guards were also instructed not to bother checking fingerprints and other personal details against a Home Office database of terror suspects and illegal immigrants, it was claimed.
The Government has spent nearly £750,000 on tickets for the London 2012 Games.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has been allocated 8,815 tickets, including 213 for the opening ceremony. These alone cost £194,525 and include 41 of the top-priced opening ceremony tickets costing £2,012.12.
They have also paid out £71,490 for 143 tickets for the closing ceremony, according to the figures revealed in a Freedom of Information request by Sky News.
Almost two thirds of the 1.9 million people who applied in the six-week first round of Olympic sales ended up empty-handed. A total of 1.2 million people ended up with nothing, with only 700,000 - 36% - being successful.
The DCMS put bids in for tickets for all the Government and, it is believed, its allocation will be shared out across government departments.
Many dignitaries, heads of state and business leaders across the world will fill some of the best seats at the opening and closing ceremonies which will be used as a showcase for Britain. Sought-after tickets for track cycling, with a total of 224 tickets to the Olympic Park velodrome sessions, are among the DCMS allocation.
The tickets include the sprint and keirin finals in which Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton are hoping to take part. They spent £29,530 on diving tickets, including Tom Daley's 10-metre synchro and 10-metre platform event. The department spent £33,085 on 257 athletics tickets and £26,600 on 411 beach volleyball tickets.
A DCMS spokesman said: "Hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games next summer is a once-in a-generation opportunity to showcase the UK to a massive international audience. We are determined to use this unique opportunity to maximise the economic benefits for the country.
"The Government has purchased 8,815 tickets for the Games - around 0.1% of the 8.8 million tickets available.
"These will be used to invite and accompany a number of international and domestic political and business leaders, as well as guests with a close connection to the Games and its legacy. As we have said before, there will be no free tickets for civil servants, and no tickets at all for the opening and closing ceremonies."
Two drivers working for the owners of Cornish pasty makers Ginsters were killed and a third was injured in the horrific M5 crash, the company has said.
Leicestershire-based food producer Samworth Brothers confirmed that two of its staff were among the seven people who died in the 34-vehicle pile-up on the motorway in Somerset on Friday night.
Police are focusing their attention on the theory that the 34-vehicle pile-up, which claimed seven lives and left 51 injured, was caused by smoke from a rugby club fireworks event drifting onto the M5.
Officers said the theory that smoke from the display had drifted on to the M5 in Somerset and caused the crash is now their "main line of inquiry".
Avon and Somerset Police are yet to confirm the identities of any of the seven victims, but revealed they are now conducting a criminal, as well as a road policing, investigation. On Sunday night the stricken section of motorway, which had been closed since Friday night's tragedy, was reopened.
Elderly couple Anthony and Pamela Adams, from Newport, South Wales, have been named locally as being among the victims of Friday's pile-up.
It has been reported the crash has left a young woman in a coma and her wheelchair-bound father and sister dead. Emma Barton, believed to be 19, was said to have been travelling in a car with her boyfriend Christopher Burbull, father Michael and sister Maggie when they were caught up in the chaos.
Reports suggest the group had been to a funeral and were returning to the Barton family home in Windsor, Berkshire. Mr Burbull, of Slough, Berkshire, was also admitted to hospital following the crash, it was said.
Another possible casualty was named as Malcolm Beacham, from Woolavington in Somerset, who is said to be the event co-ordinator of a re-enactment group. One comment, left on the Living History website by a user named Martin, said: "For those that had the privilege of knowing him Malcolm was a fantastic guy, a true stalwart of the re-enactment community from The Company Of Chivalry, he was involved in the accident on the M5 on Friday, you will be sorely missed m8."
Police said witnesses had reported "significant smoke" across the carriageway that was "impossible to drive through". Taunton Rugby Club announced in a statement that it is "working closely with Avon and Somerset Police to assist with their investigations".
It may be weeks before police know what caused the M5 pile-up in which seven people were killed, the Transport Secretary has said.
Justine Greening told MPs a total of 37 vehicles were involved in the Friday night horror crash that left seven dead and 51 injured.
Making a Commons statement on the tragedy, she said: "Given the large number of vehicles involved, the need to carefully look at those vehicles recovered and to talk to many of the witnesses, it may be some weeks until the investigation can conclude on any cause or causes of this incident."
Avon and Somerset Police are investigating whether the crash happened as smoke from a rugby club fireworks display drifted on to the M5, affecting drivers' visibility and concentration. Officers are conducting a criminal investigation.
Elderly couple Anthony and Pamela Adams, from Newport, south Wales, were among those killed in the smash.
Lorry driver Terry Brice, from Bristol, was also named as one of the victims, as was Malcolm Beacham, from Woolavington in Somerset.
The crash also left a young woman in a coma and her wheelchair-bound father and sister dead.
Emma Barton, believed to be 19, was said to have been travelling in a car with her boyfriend Christopher Burbull, father Michael and sister Maggie, when they were caught up in the chaos.
The seventh victim was named as Kye Thomas, 38, from Gunnislake, Cornwall.
Ms Greening told MPs: "While Avon and Somerset Police have indicated the presence of smoke on the carriageway is a significant line of inquiry, Assistant Chief Constable (Anthony) Bangham has been clear to me that, in his words to me early today, 'it is far too early to jump to conclusions on the causal factors of this incident'."
The number of suspected terrorists, criminals and illegal immigrants who entered the country when officials relaxed border controls without ministerial approval this summer will never be known, Home Secretary Theresa May has said.
The head of the UK border force Brodie Clark and two other officials have been suspended after border guards were told not to bother checking fingerprints and other personal details against a Home Office database of terror suspects and illegal immigrants.
Mrs May told MPs those responsible would be punished as she announced a series of inquiries into the scandal.
Mrs May said that while ministers had started a pilot project "targeting intelligence-led checks on higher-risk" passengers, Mr Clark "authorised the wider relaxation of border controls without ministerial sanction" this summer.
"As a result of these unauthorised actions, we will never know how many people entered the country who should have been prevented from doing so after being flagged by the warnings index," she said.
Under the pilot scheme, European children, "travelling with their parents or as part of a school group, would be checked against the warnings index - designed to detect terrorists and serious criminals - when assessed by a border force official to be a credible risk", Mrs May said.
"The pilot also allowed, under limited circumstances, border force officials the discretion to judge when to open the biometric chip - which contains a second photograph and no further information - on the passports of EEA nationals.
"Those circumstances were that the measures would always be subject to a risk-based assessment, that they should not be routine, and that the volume of passengers would be such that border security would be stronger with more risk-based checks and fewer mandatory checks than with more mandatory checks on low-risk passengers and fewer risk-based checks for high-risk passengers.
"The advice of security officials was sought and they confirmed that they were content with the measures."
But on Wednesday last week, Mr Clark confirmed to Rob Whiteman, the UKBA chief executive, that "border controls had been relaxed without ministerial approval".
Greece is "haltingly" moving towards honouring the eurozone bailout package, Nick Clegg has claimed.
The Deputy Prime Minister said it was "no wonder" there were significant "political ructions" following agreements made in Brussels last month because countries were being forced to take actions that had been "ducked" for years.
But UK jobs will be lost without Greek backing for the deal and its continued membership of the eurozone, he warned.
Mr Clegg told the BBC: "In a sense, if you step back for a minute, no wonder that it creates a lot of political ructions because, quite rightly, the effect of this package is to ask countries to get to grips with their debt problems, to show they have got a plan how to do that, and to show they have got a plan to create sustainable long-term growth in their economies.
"That is asking governments to do big things which, arguably, in some cases, they have ducked for a very long time."
He added: "What we are seeing, haltingly, is a move forward towards a situation in Greece where they can honour the terms of the package agreed in the eurozone.
"I think it is in Greece's interest and also in the eurozone's interest, and therefore the United Kingdom's interest, not to see countries fall out of the eurozone because it would have a huge domino effect which, let's be quite clear, would cost people's jobs and livelihoods here in the United Kingdom.
"So it is not something we should wish for in any way at all."
The News of the World spied on two prominent lawyers who were representing victims of phone hacking, it has been revealed.
The newspaper, which folded earlier this year, hired a private investigator to tail Mark Lewis and Charlotte Harris and record their movements.
The investigator, named by the BBC as Derek Webb, who ran a private investigations firm called Silent Shadow, also filmed members of Mr Lewis's family on a shopping trip, it was reported.
A News International spokesman said: "News International's inquiries have led the company to believe that Mark Lewis and Charlotte Harris were subject to surveillance.
"While surveillance is not illegal, it was clearly deeply inappropriate in these circumstances.
"This action was not condoned by any current executive at the company."
Mr Lewis represented the family of Milly Dowler, whose mobile phone was hacked by the paper when she went missing in 2002.
And Ms Harris is a high-profile media lawyer, acting for several people who have complained of their phones being hacked, including football agent Sky Andrew.
The private investigator told the BBC he was owed compensation from the News of the World for his loyalty following eight years of service, but he had not received any.
Mr Webb, whose background is in police surveillance and who reportedly once attended an MI5 training course, said he was commissioned by the paper to carry out surveillance on Mr Lewis and his former assistant Ms Harris early last year.
Eurozone countries can expect no help from the rest of the world in resolving their debt crisis until they get their own house in order, Prime Minister David Cameron said.
Mr Cameron confirmed he is ready to increase the UK's contribution to the International Monetary Fund's resources to help countries in distress, insisting it would be against the national interest to withhold the money.
But he told the House of Commons that it was for the 17 eurozone nations and the European Central Bank to shore up the single currency.
In a statement on last week's gathering of the Group of 20 leading economies in France, Mr Cameron told MPs: "The world sent a clear message to the eurozone at this summit - sort yourselves out and then we will help, not the other way round."
Mr Cameron was speaking as finance ministers from the single currency countries met in Brussels to work out their next move following a G20 summit which failed to produce any offers of cash to beef up the eurozone's bailout fund to a proposed 1 trillion euros.
But there was little expectation of a resolution of the crisis at a meeting or an Ecofin gathering of all 27 EU finance ministers - including Chancellor George Osborne - on Tuesday. Officials said follow-up talks had already been scheduled for November 17.
Ministers were waiting to hear the identity of the leader of Greece's new government of national unity, which is expected to nod through last week's rescue package in the face of violent opposition from sections of the population.
Greek finance minister Evangelos Venizelos said that the creation of the new government was the "proof of our commitment and our national capacity to implement the programme and reconstruct the country".
Attention was also directed at Italy, where Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was clinging on in the face of massive pressure to resign - and was forced to use Facebook to deny that he had already quit.
Mr Cameron's statement was the first time he has explicitly stated in public that he sees a role for the European Central Bank in resolving the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis.
A jury has reached a verdict in the involuntary manslaughter case against Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray.
Court officials said it will be read out at about 2100 GMT.
Prosecutors depicted Murray as a reckless physician who abandoned the pop star while he was under the effects of the powerful anaesthetic propofol on June 25, 2009.
Lawyers for the Houston-based cardiologist countered that Jackson was addicted to the drug and self-administered the fatal dose when Murray left his bedroom.
Murray agreed to become Jackson's personal doctor as the singer prepared for a series of comeback concerts in 2009.
Murray did not testify during the trial but previously acknowledged to police that he gave Jackson propofol and other sedatives on the morning the singer died.
The seven men and five women of the jury were in their second day of deliberations when they reached the verdict.
Murray has pleaded not guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter.
