• Friday newspaper round-up: Heathrow, wealth tax, gas imports

  Friday 01 Aug 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Heathrow has submitted its "shovel-ready" plans for a third runway as part of a £50bn investment, as the government said expanding Europe's largest airport could create 100,000 jobs and drive growth. The 2-mile (3.2km) runway expansion would cross a diverted M25 and allow more than 750 additional flights a day over London, helping bring the total annual number of passengers to 150 million. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Tesla Diner, Heathrow, motor finance scandal

  Thursday 31 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Whether it's poaching top talent away from competitors, acquiring AI startups or proclaiming that it will build data centers the size of Manhattan, Meta has been on a spending spree to boost its artificial intelligence capabilities for months now. The massive splurge is paying off, according to Meta's chief executive. In a new memo posted on Wednesday ahead of the company's quarterly earnings report, Mark Zuckerberg, describes his ambitions for developing what he calls "superintelligence". - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Thames Water, UK private sector, Apple

  Wednesday 30 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - A river charity is taking legal action against the environment secretary, Steve Reed, accusing him of an unlawful failure to publish his policy on taking failing water companies into temporary nationalisation. Lawyers for River Action argue that Thames Water has breached its duties and violated its licence conditions seriously and repeatedly, making it the clearest possible case for special administration. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Cornwall tin mining, Wise, pension reforms

  Tuesday 29 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Tin mining is poised for a comeback in Cornwall after the UK government invested almost £29m to reopen the county's last tin mine, creating more than 1,000 jobs in the region. The South Crofty tin mine, near the Cornish village of Pool, closed in 1998, and in the years since, as tin prices have soared, attempts to reopen it have been unsuccessful. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Gambling, BoE bond sales, Thames Water

  Monday 28 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Gambling lobbyists are staging a summer charm offensive designed to stop ministers from raising taxes on the sector, the Guardian has learned, including meeting with Treasury insiders and hosting a darts evening with Labour special advisers and MPs' staff. The Treasury is considering whether to simplify the various rates of duty applied to gambling products, a measure that the £11.5bn-a-year sector fears would increase its overall tax bill. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Centrica, Barrow, Argentina

  Sunday 27 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - British Gas owner, Centrica, is looking at possible investments in miniature nuclear power plants in the UK in a bid to tap into huge demand for the technology. Hence, it has initiated talks with Government which could see it take part in developing small modular reactors. Last month, the energy secretary, unveiled billions of pounds for SMRs. - The Sunday Telegraph

• Friday newspaper round-up: Paramount Global/Skydance Media, farms, River Island

  Friday 25 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The Federal Communications Commission approved the merger between Paramount Global and Skydance Media on Thursday, clearing the way for an $8.4bn sale of some of the most prominent names in entertainment, including the CBS broadcast television network, Paramount Pictures and the Nickelodeon cable channel. The FCC agreed to transfer broadcast licenses for 28 owned-and-operated CBS television stations to the new owners after Paramount paid $16m to settle a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump over a 60 Minutes interview with former vice-president Kamala Harris that aired in October. - Guardian

• Friday newspaper round-up: Paramount Global/Skydance Media, farms, River Island

  Friday 25 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The Federal Communications Commission approved the merger between Paramount Global and Skydance Media on Thursday, clearing the way for an $8.4bn sale of some of the most prominent names in entertainment, including the CBS broadcast television network, Paramount Pictures and the Nickelodeon cable channel. The FCC agreed to transfer broadcast licenses for 28 owned-and-operated CBS television stations to the new owners after Paramount paid $16m to settle a lawsuit filed by Donald Trump over a 60 Minutes interview with former vice-president Kamala Harris that aired in October. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: UK car manufacturing, River Island, Tesla

  Thursday 24 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - British car and van manufacturing slumped in the first half of the year to its lowest since 1953 outside the Covid pandemic, as Donald Trump's US tariffs caused global industry chaos. UK vehicle manufacturing declined by 12% to 417,200 units in the first six months of the year, figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), a lobby group, show. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Tariffs, UK banks, Eurostar...

  Wednesday 23 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Donald Trump said the US had agreed the terms of a "massive" trade deal with Japan that will impose 15 per cent tariffs on goods imported into America from the world's fourth-largest economy. The 15 per cent levy is lower than the 25 per cent he had threatened in a letter earlier this month, but higher than the 10 per cent rate that had been in force while the countries negotiated. Financial Times

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Sizewell C, State pensions, Gaza

  Tuesday 22 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Ed Miliband has given final approval for the construction of Sizewell C nuclear power station at a cost of at least £38bn. The Energy Secretary took the final investment decision on the controversial power station on Tuesday. The site will take at least a decade to build. The Suffolk nuclear plant will have a capacity of about 3.2 gigawatts, enough to supply the needs of about six million homes for at least 60 years. - Daily Telegraph

• Monday newspaper round-up: LSE, Ofwat, house prices...

  Monday 21 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - London Stock Exchange Group is weighing whether to launch 24-hour trading as bourses race to extend access to stocks amid growing demand from small investors active outside normal business hours. The group is looking into the practicalities of increasing its trading hours, according to people familiar with the situation, from the technology required to regulatory implications. Financial Times

• Friday newspaper round-up: JLR, BNPL, Telegraph sale, water industry

  Friday 18 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Britain's largest carmaker, Jaguar Land Rover, has delayed the planned launches of its new electric Range Rover and electric Jaguar models to give it time for more testing and for demand to pick up, the Guardian can reveal. JLR has written to customers waiting for the Range Rover Electric to inform them that deliveries of the new version of the model will not start until next year, after initially aiming for late 2025. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: WPP, Jerome Powell, Elon Musk

  Thursday 17 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The advertising agency WPP has been asked to work up ideas for a government-endorsed advertising blitz to urge more consumers to invest in stocks through a "Tell Sid"-style campaign expected to cost tens of millions of pounds. Plans for the nationwide push were announced by chancellor Rachel Reeves on Tuesday at her Mansion House speech, as she unveiled a fresh deregulation drive meant to increase financial risk-taking across the UK to help spur growth. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Red tape, billionaires, diesel emissions

  Wednesday 16 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves has claimed that rules and red tape are acting as a "boot on the neck" of businesses and risk "choking off" innovation across the UK without bold reforms. In a speech to City bosses attending the Mansion House dinner at London's Guildhall on Tuesday evening, the chancellor heaped further pressure on regulators to allow for more risk in order to boost economic growth. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Rachel Reeves, electric cars, Marks & Spencer

  Tuesday 15 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves will claim that cutting red tape for City firms will have trickle-down benefits for households across Britain, as she tries to drum up support for a new financial services strategy. A raft of regulatory reforms are due to be announced by the chancellor on Tuesday, in what the Treasury says will be the "biggest financial regulation reforms in a decade". It will come before her Mansion House address to City bosses during a dinner at Guildhall in London on Tuesday evening. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Pubs, country houses, Severn Trent

  Monday 14 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The boss of the pub chain Greene King has called for changes to business rates to remedy "unfairness" that he said added to financial pressures on the struggling pubs industry. Nick Mackenzie, Greene King's chief executive, said the business rates system of property taxes should be changed to a tax on profits. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: EU tariffs, Begbies Traynor, Burberry's

  Sunday 13 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - The US President announced that imports from the EU and Mexico would both be taxed at 30% commencing on 1 August. The announcement was a surprise for both Brussels and the US trade representative, Jamieson Greer, as both believed that they had reached a deal that would be acceptable to both sides. EU trade ministers' previously scheduled Monday meeting will now see them come under pressure to show a "tough" reaction. - Guardian

• Friday newspaper round-up: Speciality Steel UK, Canada tariffs, X and Meta

  Friday 11 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Ministers are considering options to step in to save another major steel plant if its parent company collapses into administration after a key court case next week. The business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, is understood to be looking at what the government can do to support Speciality Steel UK (SSUK) - part of the Liberty Steel Group owned by Sanjeev Gupta - should it be faced with possible closure after Wednesday's insolvency hearing. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Thames Water, high streets, X boss

  Thursday 10 Jul 2025

  (Sharecast News) - Thames Water paid almost £2.5m to senior managers from an emergency loan that was meant to be used to keep the failing utilities company afloat - and has refused to claw back the payments, newly released documents reveal. The struggling water supplier paid bonuses totalling £2.46m to 21 managers on 30 April. - Guardian

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