• Monday newspaper round-up: hospitality businesses, rail passengers, Battersea Power Station

  Monday 14 Sep 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Hundreds of UK hospitality businesses, backed by celebrity chefs including Angela Hartnett and Heston Blumenthal, have asked Andy Burnham to lay out plans to lower VAT for the sector, urging him to make good on his previous pledge. More than 800 businesses have written an open letter to the prime minister as part of the #VATsTheProblem campaign, to warn that without a "fairer tax burden for hospitality", there will be more closures and job losses, and fewer opportunities for young people. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Cardiff summit, Reform UK, Nats, JLR, Anthropic, Tesco

  Sunday 13 Sep 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will meet in Cardiff on Monday to sign a joint declaration calling for the right to hold independence referendums, according to The Telegraph. The paper said the unprecedented summit will see the three first ministers formally demand powers to trigger votes on leaving the UK, amid renewed constitutional pressure on Westminster. The meeting follows comments from Andy Burnham suggesting he would permit another Scottish referendum if there were a "clear consensus" in favour. The gathering also comes shortly after Donald Trump told reporters in Dublin that he would "love" to see a united Ireland, describing Northern Ireland joining the Republic as "a great thing".

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Cardiff summit, Reform UK, Nats, JLR, Anthropic, Tesco

  Sunday 13 Sep 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will meet in Cardiff on Monday to sign a joint declaration calling for the right to hold independence referendums, according to The Telegraph. The paper said the unprecedented summit will see the three first ministers formally demand powers to trigger votes on leaving the UK, amid renewed constitutional pressure on Westminster. The meeting follows comments from Andy Burnham suggesting he would permit another Scottish referendum if there were a "clear consensus" in favour. The gathering also comes shortly after Donald Trump told reporters in Dublin that he would "love" to see a united Ireland, describing Northern Ireland joining the Republic as "a great thing".

• Friday newspaper round-up: Energy bills, triple lock, ONS data crisis

  Friday 11 Sep 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Consumers will pay higher energy bills unless the UK government speeds up work on a vast programme of upgrades to the electricity grid to enable the switch to renewables, the public spending watchdog has warned. The National Audit Office (NAO) said that without faster action the extra costs associated with managing the ageing power network, which are ultimately passed on to the public, could reach £7.8bn a year by 2030. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Migration, air traffic control, triple lock

  Thursday 10 Sep 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Andy Burnham must overhaul Shabana Mahmood's migration reforms or risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment, the TUC general secretary, Paul Nowak, has warned. Speaking ahead of the TUC's annual congress in Brighton next week, Nowak welcomed the "sense of optimism" around Burnham's fledgling government, but he urged the PM to act in a series of areas, including migration and the cost of living. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Air traffic control breakdown, Bet365, consumer finance claims

  Wednesday 09 Sep 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Flight delays and cancellations were expected to continue into Wednesday at UK airports after another air traffic control failure kept planes grounded for hours, affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers. At least 177 flights scheduled for Wednesday to and from UK airports had been cancelled, plane tracking site Flightradar24 said, "nearly all at London Heathrow". More than 1,000 were cancelled by about 8pm on Tuesday. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: UK retailers, Volkswagen, stock market funds

  Tuesday 08 Sep 2026

  (Sharecast News) - UK retailers plan to create up to 100,000 short-term placements for young people not in employment, education or training (Neet) over the next three years to give them a first step on the ladder to paid work. In partnership with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), more than 40 retailers, including Marks & Spencer, Pets at Home, Asda and the John Lewis Partnership, will offer Neets aged 18-24 placements of two to four weeks to gain "the skills and confidence needed to take their first step into work". - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: JLR, family-owned manufacturing businesses, airline passengers

  Monday 07 Sep 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Professional designers should not feel "threatened" by the rapid growth of generative AI, according to business leaders, despite fears over job losses in the sector. With design and film production companies and manufacturers all adopting AI at an accelerating pace, industry bodies said the technology would be used to enhance the work of designers rather than replace them. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: US-Iran strikes, EU border delays, Jaguar Land Rover, UK taxes, M&S, TG Jones

  Sunday 06 Sep 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The US military said it had struck three Iranian oil tankers after American warships came under missile attack, warning it would "if necessary, destroy Iran's limited and exposed oil fleet" as tensions in the region escalated. According to the Guardian, citing officials, a US aircraft carrier and a destroyer avoided "multiple unprovoked Iranian attacks" while patrolling, with no injuries reported among US personnel. The Pentagon said two of the tankers were "permanently disabled", while a third, which was unladen, was destroyed. Washington described the vessels as part of a covert network used to finance Iran's Revolutionary Guards and proxy groups operating across the Middle East.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Volkswagen, Very Group, Harvey Nichols

  Friday 04 Sep 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The car company Volkswagen has announced it will shed 100,000 jobs by the end of the decade after being hit by US tariffs and fierce competition from Chinese rivals. The German manufacturer said management and unions had agreed as part of a sweeping cost-cutting plan to cut a further 50,000 positions by 2030, bringing total job losses in the pipeline to 100,000. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Self-driving taxis, ENRC, Barclays

  Thursday 03 Sep 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Andy Burnham moved to calm volatile bond markets on Wednesday as surging borrowing costs threatened to wreck plans for his government's crucial first budget next month. After a days-long sell-off of government bonds - and with the chancellor, John Healey, facing the prospect of sharply reduced spending power, Burnham used his first appearance at prime minister's questions to promise decisions would be "grounded in fiscal responsibility". - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: defence spending, LSEG, Sports Direct

  Wednesday 02 Sep 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The chancellor, John Healey, must be prepared to raise taxes for middle earners if he wants to fund significantly higher defence spending, the Resolution Foundation thinktank has said. Healey resigned from Keir Starmer's government in June, protesting against what he argued was the then prime minister's failure to adequately fund defence. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: House prices, German economy, ChatGPT, Capita

  Tuesday 01 Sep 2026

  (Sharecast News) - A house near a top state secondary school costs an extra £40,000 on average, according to research that reveals education premiums that rank alongside some private school fees. The average property in a postcode district that includes a top 50 state secondary commands a price tag of £415,791, compared with £375,217 across the wider local authority areas in which those schools are located, a UK-wide analysis by the estate agent Yopa found. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Fertiliser shortages, Loungers, Alex Gerko, delivery drivers, South West Water, French credit rating

  Sunday 30 Aug 2026

  (Sharecast News) - British farmers have been warned of potential fertiliser shortages as turmoil in the Gulf threatens global supply chains, according to The Sunday Times. An industry briefing circulated to producers said disruption following Donald Trump's attack on Iran had reduced market flexibility, with product from key origins no longer guaranteed on usual terms. While fertiliser remains available in the UK, the note cautioned that smaller markets could face tighter supply and higher replacement costs if major buyers compete for alternatives, creating a possible logistical chokepoint for farms.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Anthropic, BBC, crypto investors

  Friday 28 Aug 2026

  (Sharecast News) - A clampdown on "rogue bailiffs" has been launched by Andy Burnham amid concerns that vulnerable people are being overcharged and face aggressive behaviour. In the latest in a series of "everyday fixes" to ease the cost of living and "make Britain fairer", the prime minister said he was strengthening the rules that apply to bailiffs in England and Wales to better protect people in debt. He also announced measures to target "cowboy" tradespeople, including builders who rip off homeowners. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Thames Water, Epstein, Macquarie Group

  Thursday 27 Aug 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Levels of a toxic "forever chemical" rose to 13 times the legal limit during Thames Water pilots for a controversial multimillion pound water recycling scheme that will pump millions of litres of treated sewage into the River Thames during drought. The data from the pilots is in stark contrast to public comments from Thames Water that their water recycling project in south-west London will not harm the riverine environment. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Canada tariffs, national lottery boss, Meta glasses

  Wednesday 26 Aug 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Canada has announced it will impose tariffs on a wide range of key American industries including cosmetics, dairy, wood products and outdoor equipment in the coming weeks, as it retaliates roughly "dollar for dollar" against levies imposed by the US. In a strong Canadian countermove to tariffs levied by Donald Trump, which took effect on Saturday after trade talks collapsed the day before, Canada's finance and industry ministers on Tuesday called the measure a "focused response" to what they see as unfair trade practices. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Trump tariffs, European insurers, high streets

  Tuesday 25 Aug 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Donald Trump announced a new 50% tariff on automobiles and crucial raw materials from Canada, the latest deterioration in trade relations between the two neighbours with historically strong economic ties. The US president said that the increased tariffs would start on 1 January 2027 on all cars, trucks, automobile parts and steel. He also derided the nation's tariffs on American farmers, writing on social media that Canada has been "ripping off" the US "for years". - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: UK productivity, Shein, Poundland

  Monday 24 Aug 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Productivity in the UK - a vital measure of economic health - is growing more strongly than official figures suggest, according to analysis from the Resolution Foundation. The thinktank suggests the chancellor, John Healey, may have inherited an economy finally starting to emerge from the long shadow of the 2008 global financial crisis. Productivity measures the economic output produced by each worker, and is a crucial determinant of growth. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Mayoral powers, wind farm applications, Iranian hackers, Reform-Conservative coalition, JLR, WPP, Reform crypto donors, US sanctions

  Sunday 23 Aug 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Andy Burnham was poised to hand England's devolved mayors sweeping new powers to take control of major planning decisions, enabling them to "call in" large‑scale developments and grant upfront permission for projects to proceed. According to the Guardian, he measures, backed by ten of the 14 mayors, would apply to schemes of more than 150 homes, commercial sites over 15,000 square metres, or buildings taller than 30 metres. The move brings regional leaders into line with London mayor Sadiq Khan, who received similar powers earlier this year to unblock stalled housing sites.

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