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  • Thursday newspaper round-up: US sanctions on Russian oil, Tesla, housing plans

    Thursday 23 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - The US has sanctioned Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia's two largest oil companies, as the Trump administration increased pressure on the Kremlin to negotiate an end to its war against Ukraine. The sanctions were the first against Russia since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, and were targeted to cut key revenues from oil sales that finance the Russian war machine. - Guardian

  • Wednesday newspaper round-up: Eurostar, water companies, JP Morgan

    Wednesday 22 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - Eurostar is to start running doubledecker trains through the Channel tunnel to meet growing demand for international rail travel from the UK. The rail operator announced it had signed a €2bn (£1.7bn) deal for at least 30 - and up to 50 - new trains from the manufacturer Alstom. The doubledeckers will start operating from 2031, with each able to carry more than 1,000 passengers. - Guardian

  • Tuesday newspaper round-up: Business bureaucracy, gambling watchdog, Apple shares

    Tuesday 21 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is poised to launch a renewed "blitz on business bureaucracy" ahead of next month's budget to target savings for companies worth £6bn. With Labour under pressure to reboot the economy, Reeves is expected to tell business leaders in Birmingham for the government's first regional investment summit that she plans to "cut pointless admin". - Guardian

  • Monday newspaper round-up: Betfred, Trustpilot, planning applications

    Monday 20 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - Betfred has said it will close all 1,287 of its high street betting shops if Rachel Reeves raises taxes on the gambling industry in next month's budget. The company's threat comes amid speculation that the chancellor is considering a tax increase worth up to £3.2bn on sports betting to help to close a potential £30bn shortfall in the public finances. Betfred said such a tax increase would ultimately force all its shops to close, putting 7,500 jobs at risk. - Guardian

  • Sunday newspaper round-up: US protests, forever chemicals, Jamie Dimon, Chinese espionage, Andrew Bailey, influencer marketing, Prince Andrew

    Sunday 19 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - Americans across all 50 states marched in protests against the Trump administration on Saturday, aligning behind a message that the country is sliding into authoritarianism and there should be no kings in the US. Millions of people turned out for the No Kings protests, the second iteration of a coalition that marched in June in one of the largest days of protest in US history. People in communities big and small came together natonwide with signs, marching bands, a huge banner with the US Constitution's preamble that people could sign, and inflatable costumes, particularly frogs, which have emerged as a sign of resistance beginning in Portland, Oregon. The rallies are a turnaround from just six months ago, when Democrats seemed at a loss as to how to counter Republicans' grip of the White House and both houses of Congress after stinging national election losses. - Guardian

  • Sunday newspaper round-up: US protests, forever chemicals, Jamie Dimon, Chinese espionage, Andrew Bailey, influencer marketing, Prince Andrew

    Sunday 19 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - Americans across all 50 states marched in protests against the Trump administration on Saturday, aligning behind a message that the country is sliding into authoritarianism and there should be no kings in the US. Millions of people turned out for the No Kings protests, the second iteration of a coalition that marched in June in one of the largest days of protest in US history. People in communities big and small came together natonwide with signs, marching bands, a huge banner with the US Constitution's preamble that people could sign, and inflatable costumes, particularly frogs, which have emerged as a sign of resistance beginning in Portland, Oregon. The rallies are a turnaround from just six months ago, when Democrats seemed at a loss as to how to counter Republicans' grip of the White House and both houses of Congress after stinging national election losses. - Guardian

  • Friday newspaper round-up: Romance fraud, Telegraph takeover, Sky

    Friday 17 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - The City regulator has called on banks and payment firms to bring in stricter controls protecting customers from romance fraud after a study showed a number of missed "red flags" that led to people losing huge sums of money. The review by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) highlighted one case where someone lost £428,000, another where a customer made 403 payments totalling £72,000 to a fraudster and a case where someone wanted money to transfer cryptocurrency to their "partner" in Iraq. - Guardian

  • Thursday newspaper round-up: Welfare cuts, PHEVs, London City Airport

    Thursday 16 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - Britain's leading tax and spending experts have urged Rachel Reeves to consider announcing billions of pounds in welfare cuts in next month's budget to help placate jittery financial markets. After the chancellor gave her strongest hint yet that spending cuts were under consideration, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) called on Reeves to take "bold" action to plug a potential £22bn shortfall in the government finances. - Guardian

  • Wednesday newspaper round-up: Solar farm, mortgage rates, Oura

    Wednesday 15 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - Ed Miliband has approved the UK's biggest solar farm, which will be built in a county where Reform UK's anti-renewables agenda has won rising support. The energy secretary on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for the Tillbridge solar farm to be developed near Gainsborough in Lincolnshire. Once built, it will generate enough electricity to power 300,000 UK homes. - Guardian

  • Tuesday newspaper round-up: Greenpeace, Temu, Strava, Wayve

    Tuesday 14 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - Greenpeace is threatening to sue King Charles's property management company, accusing it of exploiting its monopoly ownership of the seabed. The environmental lobby group alleges the crown estate has driven up costs for wind power developers and boosted its own profits, as well as the royal household's income, due to the "aggressive" way it auctions seabed rights. - Guardian

  • Monday newspaper round-up: IFS warning, crypto, housebuilders

    Monday 13 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves must avoid "a half-baked dash for revenue" or risk damaging economic growth as the chancellor seeks to close a large gap in next month's budget, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said. The tax and spending thinktank has warned there was a danger the chancellor would create "unnecessary economic damage" if she chooses to stitch together unrelated tax-raising measures to cut the shortfall in government revenues and keep within her fiscal rules. - Guardian

  • Sunday newspaper round-up: Autumn budget, Jonathan Powell, China tariffs, BMW, Lower Thames crossing, Israel ceasefire

    Sunday 12 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves has signalled the better off will be forced to "contribute more" as she prepares to raise taxes at the Budget. Treasury sources have said that the Chancellor will not cut spending on public services or significantly increase borrowing, as she looks to plug a £20-30bn black hole in the public finances. It will leave her with no option but to increase taxes substantially. Ms Reeves will argue that growth boosting reforms, such as a further loosening of planning rules, can avoid the need for tax rises on "working families". She will instead target those with higher incomes or more wealth, The Telegraph understands. Sources close to the Chancellor said: "She will be fair when asking those to contribute more to rebuild our public services." - Telegraph

  • Friday newspaper round-up: Rishi Sunak, councils, Oracle

    Friday 10 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - Rishi Sunak has been appointed as a senior adviser by the US technology companies Microsoft and Anthropic. The former British prime minister's pair of new jobs emerged on Thursday in letters published by Westminster's office of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments (Acoba). They add to his roles as a senior adviser to Goldman Sachs International, the investment bank, and speechmaker to investment firms including Bain Capital and Makena Capital in the US, which have netted him over £150,000 a talk. - Guardian

  • Thursday newspaper round-up: Pub opening hours, Elon Musk, tax fears

    Thursday 09 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - Pubs, clubs and restaurants will be able to open into the early hours as part of Labour's drive for economic growth, a move which critics say will lead to more drunken disorder. Ministers are pushing ahead with plans to allow premises that sell alcohol to extend their opening hours in order to boost "the British night out" and help the hospitality sector. - Guardian

  • Wednesday newspaper round-up: Tariffs, pension ages, Revolut co-founder

    Wednesday 08 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - The EU has announced it will match Donald Trump's steel tariffs, doubling levies on imports to 50% in a decision condemned as "an existential threat" to the industry in the UK. With 80% of British exports going to the EU, the change poses the UK steel industry's biggest ever crisis, according to the lobby group representing the sector, while unions said they could kill off the industry. - Guardian

  • Tuesday newspaper round-up: JLR, Ineos, pensions

    Tuesday 07 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - The world's wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system, according to research. A report by the climate thinktank Ember found that in the first six months of 2025, renewable energy outpaced the world's growing appetite for electricity, leading to a small decline in coal and gas use. - Guardian

  • Monday newspaper round-up: Gaza, water bills, household savings...

    Monday 06 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - President Donald Trump reiterated his warning that Hamas will face an aggressive offensive if the group does not agree to concede control of Gaza amid efforts to reach a ceasefire deal between the group and Israel. In a text message, sent to CNN reporter Jack Tapper Saturday, the president said the consequences for Hamas would be "complete obliteration!" if the group insists on staying in power. - The Independent

  • Sunday newspaper round-up: Protest crackdowns, Gaza ceasefire, Kemi Badenoch, Viaro Energy, JLR, Chinese spies

    Sunday 05 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - Ministers are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to Gaza, the Home Office has said. The announcement, made the morning after almost 500 people were arrested in London for expressing support for Palestine Action, a proscribed organisation, could allow police to order regular protests to take place at a different site. Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, will also look at all anti-protest laws, with the possibility that powers to ban some demonstrations outright could be strengthened. - Guardian

  • Friday newspaper round-up: US shutdown, Autumn Budget, Ryanair...

    Friday 03 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - Senior officials inside Donald Trump's administration have acknowledged the federal government shutdown, without an end in sight, could hurt the US economy. The damage could be worth billions of dollars each week, according to analysts. [...] "We estimate that each week of shutdown would reduce US GDP growth by 0.1 percentage points (ppt) in Q4 (in annualized terms), translating into a $7 billion weekly hit to the economy," a report by EY Parthenon said, citing the effect of lack of pay for furloughed federal workers, delayed government procurement of goods and services and decline in demand. - The Guardian

  • Thursday newspaper round-up: Air safety, Apple, Costa Coffee

    Thursday 02 Oct 2025

    (Sharecast News) - Pilots and cabin crew at European airlines feel increasingly under pressure to work long hours and hide signs of tiredness at the expense of safety, according to a major study. Cost cutting and profit chasing at airlines has "systemically weakened" safety, and many exhausted employees feel too intimidated to challenge management decisions, the research by Ghent University in Belgium found. - Guardian

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