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EU clears GSK's RSV vaccine for use in all adults, Spire confirms early talks with Bridgepoint and Triton
By Iain Gilbert
Date: Monday 26 Jan 2026
(Sharecast News) - LONDON PRE-OPEN
The FTSE 100 was expected to open just 1.2 points higher ahead of the bell on Monday, after wrapping up the previous session 0.07% softer at 10,143.44.
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The European Commission has approved GSK's respiratory syncytial virus vaccine for use in all adults by, the drugs giant announced on Monday. The vaccine, called Arexvy, was already authorised for people aged 60 and above, as well as for those who are aged 50 and over and are at increased risk of RSV. However, the Commission has now given the drug the green light for all adults aged 18 plus. An averaged of 158,000 adults are hospitalised due to RSV infections every year, GSK noted.
UK residential landlord Grainger said its property joint venture with Transport for London, has agreed to forward fund and buy a 195-home rental project at Chiswick Reach in West London to be developed in partnership with Barratt Redrow. The £68.4m purchase price for the scheme will be split 51:49 between Grainger and TfL.
Private healthcare provider Spire Healthcare said on Monday that Bridgepoint and Triton were among parties holding early‑stage talks with the company as part of its strategic review launched on 18 September 2025. Spire stressed that discussions were preliminary and that there was no certainty that any offer would be made, nor any clarity on potential terms should a bid emerge. Bridgepoint and Triton will be required to announce a firm intention to make an offer by 21 February.
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The UK and nine other European countries have agreed to build an offshore wind power grid in the North Sea in a landmark pact to turn the ageing oil basin into a "clean energy reservoir". The countries will build windfarms at sea that directly connect to multiple nations through high-voltage subsea cables, under plans that are expected to provide 100GW of offshore wind power, or enough electricity capacity to power 143m homes. - Guardian
Eleven towns and cities in the UK, including Warrington, Barnsley and Wakefield, have seen their disposable incomes rise twice as fast as the rest of the UK over the past decade, a study has found. A report from Centre for Cities, a thinktank, showed that between 2013 and 2023, disposable income for residents of these top performing towns and cities rose by an average of 5.2%, compared with an increase of 2.4% for urban areas in the UK overall. - Guardian
Jaguar Land Rover is exploring plans to develop a new petrol-powered engine after coming under fire over a controversial "woke" rebrand. The company is reportedly drawing up proposals for a vehicle powered partly by a combustion engine, despite earlier pledges to go "all electric". The new car, which is said to be in the early stages of development, would be classed as a "range-extended electric vehicle", which uses a small petrol engine to charge the main battery powering the vehicle. - Teleegraph
Hundreds of thousands of graduates are claiming benefits amid a post-pandemic surge in people who say they are too sick to work. Analysis of official data by the Centre for Social Justice showed there were 707,000 people with a university degree at the end of last year who were out of work and claiming one or more benefits. - Telegraph
The government is facing last-ditch calls to broaden an expected £300m support package this week for pubs facing a rise in business rates. The Treasury is expected to announce a temporary support package focused on pubs after the chancellor Rachel Reeves indicated at Davos last week that she would not extend relief across the sector to struggling hotels, restaurants and cafés. - The Times
The proposed £49bn third runway scheme at Heathrow risks becoming an unaffordable "vanity project" that does not meet the needs of passengers, research has found. The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport said the development was based on assumptions about traveller behaviour, airline economics and capacity at other London airports that were more than ten years out of date, and in its present configuration the project was unlikely to be "affordable". - The Times
US CLOSE
Major indices delivered a mixed performance on Friday after two solid back-to-back performances as geopolitcal tensions begun to ease.
At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 0.58% at 49,098.71, while the S&P 500 ticked up 0.03% to 6,915.61 and the Nasdaq Composite saw out the session 0.28% firmer at 23,501.24.
Reporting by Iain Gilbert at Sharecast.com
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