• Thursday newspaper round-up: Medicine prices, ticket touting, Ryanair

  Thursday 23 Apr 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The war in Iran has pushed up the price of widely used medicines in England, including painkillers and hay fever medication, leading pharmacists have warned. Community chemists are charging customers 20-30% more for paracetamol than they did in February, according to the National Pharmacy Association (NPA), and many have run out of certain strengths of aspirin and co-codamol. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: SpaceX, airlines, PM Law, Kevin Warsh

  Wednesday 22 Apr 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The UK could face "hacktivist attacks at scale" if it becomes embroiled in a conflict and the impact could be similar to recent high-profile ransomware incidents, according to the head of the country's online security agency. Richard Horne, chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), will warn today that nation states now account for the most significant incidents the NCSC deals with. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: SpaceX, airlines, PM Law, Kevin Warsh

  Wednesday 22 Apr 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The UK could face "hacktivist attacks at scale" if it becomes embroiled in a conflict and the impact could be similar to recent high-profile ransomware incidents, according to the head of the country's online security agency. Richard Horne, chief executive of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), will warn today that nation states now account for the most significant incidents the NCSC deals with. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Wind and solar farms, Amazon, energy debt

  Tuesday 21 Apr 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The government has confirmed plans to move older wind and solar farms which make up almost a third of Great Britain's power market on to fixed-price contracts to help protect households and businesses from future gas market shocks. Under the plans, first revealed by the Guardian, renewable energy projects that earn subsidies on top of the market price will be asked to sign up to contracts that pay a set price for electricity as part of the government's plan to "delink the price of electricity from the price of gas". - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Job losses, net zero, Blue Origin

  Monday 20 Apr 2026

  (Sharecast News) - A quarter of a million people could lose their jobs by the middle of next year as Britain "flirts with recession", analysis suggests, after business confidence was shattered by the US-Israel war on Iran. As the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, summoned bank chiefs for talks aimed at containing the fallout, twin reports from top accounting firms underlined the scale of the economic threat facing the UK. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Hormuz, Reform vetting, Virgin Atlantic, HS2, Peter Mandelson, Britain First protests

  Sunday 19 Apr 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Iran has reinstated restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz after the US refused to lift its blockade of Iranian ports, according to thE Guardian, citing officials in Tehran. A UK maritime agency said IRGC vessels had fired at a tanker attempting to transit the waterway on Saturday, while Reuters reported that an Indian‑flagged crude carrier had also been attacked.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Defence spending, Metro Bank, Aston Martin

  Friday 17 Apr 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves has warned "difficult choices" are required to increase defence spending and other budgets may have to be cut, including welfare. Under pressure for a faster rise in the military budget amid the Iran conflict and Russia's war in Ukraine, the chancellor said she was "working through a range of options" but preferred not to increase taxes or add to government borrowing. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Private rents, NHS drugs, data centre

  Thursday 16 Apr 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Average private rents have stopped rising in Great Britain after almost a decade of increases, as more landlords cut their prices to secure a tenant, data shows. The typical advertised private rent outside London for properties coming on to the market remained flat at £1,370 a calendar month in the first three months of 2026, according to the property website Rightmove. It is the first time since 2017 that rents have not increased in the first three months of a year compared with levels at the end of the previous year. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Lidl and Iceland, Help to Buy, shadow banking

  Wednesday 15 Apr 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Lidl and Iceland have become the first companies to have ads banned after the introduction of rules cracking down on the marketing of junk food in the UK. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has been policing the ban on ads featuring junk food on TV before 9pm, and in paid online advertising at any time of the day, since 5 January. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: HS2 trains, renewable energy, Anthropic

  Tuesday 14 Apr 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Plans to change the size of HS2 trains to maximise capacity are likely to inflate costs and mean fewer seats and slower services north of Birmingham, a senior government and rail industry figure has warned. The £2bn order for 54 high-speed trains, to be built in Britain by a joint venture of Alstom and Hitachi, is under review as HS2 Ltd seeks to cut costs and renegotiate contracts. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Electric cars, Richard Caring, Starbucks

  Monday 13 Apr 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Ministers are planning to fundamentally reshape Britain's relationship with the European Union, with new legislation that could result in the UK signing up to EU single market rules without a normal parliamentary vote. In a major development in the prime minister's push for closer ties with the continent after the Iran war, the Guardian understands ministers are bracing to face down opposition to "dynamic alignment" with the EU from those who "scream treason" over the powers in a new EU-UK reset bill. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: US-Iran talks, Palestine Action protest, UK wholesalers, Heck, Chagos Islands, Hungarian election

  Sunday 12 Apr 2026

  (Sharecast News) - US vice‑president JD Vance left Islamabad on Sunday after more than 21 hours of talks failed to produce an agreement with Iran, according to the Guardian.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Tata battery factory, tech firms, UK tax rules

  Friday 10 Apr 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The Somerset battery factory due to supply Jaguar Land Rover is to receive £380m in UK government funding as it pushes ahead with construction despite delays. JLR, Britain's largest automotive employer, is due to receive batteries from the site to make electric versions of its Range Rover and Jaguar models. The Indian conglomerate Tata owns JLR and the electric vehicle (EV) battery factory under its Agratas subsidiary. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Subsidised energy, John Lewis boss, Anthropic

  Thursday 09 Apr 2026

  (Sharecast News) - In order to cut rising bills all UK households should receive a minimum amount of energy at rates subsidised by the government through North Sea taxes, a thinktank has suggested. Providing all homes with enough energy to heat two rooms, provide hot water and run key appliances such as a fridge and washing machine, at rates frozen at current levels, would require a subsidy of about £4.5bn, according to the New Economics Foundation. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Meta, Royal Mail, Octopus Investments

  Wednesday 25 Mar 2026

  (Sharecast News) - A New Mexico jury on Tuesday ordered Meta to pay $375m in civil penalties after it found the company misled consumers about the safety of its platforms and enabled harm, including child sexual exploitation, against its users. This is the first bench trial to find Meta liable for acts committed on its platform. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: winemakers, easyJet, farmers, EWIT

  Tuesday 24 Mar 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The UK government has dismissed a warning from an energy trade body that failing to produce more homegrown North Sea oil and gas will leave the UK increasingly reliant on imports at a time of rising global instability. The industry group, Offshore Energies UK, has said the UK "urgently" needs a greater supply of domestically produced energy or consumers will be left "more exposed to global volatility and higher emissions". - Gurdian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: UK inflation, net zero, Crispin Odey

  Wednesday 11 Mar 2026

  (Sharecast News) - UK inflation could end the year higher than previously expected at 3% because of the US-Israel war in Iran, the government's economics watchdog has said. David Miles, a senior figure at the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), said inflation could end the year a percentage point higher than expected before the war, because of the energy price shock triggered by the crisis in the Middle East. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: 'Buy EU', BrewDog, Morgan Stanley

  Thursday 05 Mar 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The European Commission has proposed a "Buy EU" plan to boost domestic low-carbon industries and help the continent compete against China. The commission published a draft regulation - called the Industrial Accelerator Act - on Wednesday, setting demands for EU-made and low-carbon content on bodies spending public money. The rules mark a big shift in economic thinking from Brussels, long a bastion of open markets. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: News Corp, BBC, Asda

  Wednesday 04 Mar 2026

  (Sharecast News) - News Corp's global chief executive has described news organisations as a valuable "input" for artificial intelligence, as the media empire signs an AI content licensing deal with Meta worth up to US$50m (A$71m) a year. In an upbeat presentation, the chief executive of Rupert Murdoch's company, Robert Thomson, said the "reliable" breaking news and information in publications like the Australian, the Times of London and Dow Jones was "hard to beat" as an "input" for AI. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Anthropic's Claude, BrewDog, energy bills

  Tuesday 03 Mar 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The AI model Claude has surged in popularity after being blacklisted by the Pentagon last week over ethics concerns. Claude climbed to the No 1 spot on Apple's chart of top free apps on Saturday in the US - dethroning OpenAI's ChatGPT, just one day after the Pentagon tapped OpenAI to supply AI to classified military networks. The bot's app climbed the iPhone app charts in the UK but did not beat out ChatGPT. Claude also raced up the Android charts in the US and UK, though ChatGPT reigned supreme, according to data from Sensor Tower. - Guardian

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