• Sunday newspaper round-up: EU, Poundland, Cumberland Farms, Pip & Nut, Skydance, Starlink

  Sunday 25 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Andy Burnham has said the UK needs an "evidence‑based debate" on freedom of movement as he considers options for reshaping Britain's relationship with Brussels. The Prime Minister told The Telegraph that any future model - including single‑market membership or even full EU re‑entry - would require a frank discussion about migration flows. Burnham, who worked in Germany under free movement rules in the 1990s, said the system had "significant challenges" but noted that earlier patterns of "revolving‑door migration" were less disruptive than today's pressures. He argued that younger workers often stayed only a few years before returning home, and that the arrangement benefited British citizens too.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Elon Musk/Skydance, North Sea wealth fund, retiring entrepreneurs

  Friday 23 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Elon Musk has reportedly invested approximately $1bn in Skydance, the new media empire led by David Ellison. The deal comes alongside fresh equity infusions from existing investors, including board member Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs's widow. Semafor first reported the news. The investment follows Paramount's recent $111bn merger with Warner Bros Discovery, a huge acquisition that brought the media companies together under the Skydance name. At the head of the new media empire is David Ellison, the son of billionaire Oracle co-founder and Donald Trump ally Larry Ellison. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: AI companies, Waitrose, gas standing charges

  Thursday 22 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - AI companies have told ministers they have 12 months to head off public opposition to datacentres in the UK or risk US-style protests that could threaten their construction. Successive dry summers and rising energy bills are increasing public scrutiny of plans for the huge computer warehouses that are used to train and run AI models, says a submission to the Labour government from a group including the AI infrastructure companies Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: SpaceX, NatWest, Anthropic

  Wednesday 21 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The UK government has approved the controversial Jackdaw gasfield in the North Sea, a widely expected move that will nonetheless dismay environmental campaigners and a number of Labour MPs. While Labour's 2024 election manifesto committed to a ban on new drilling licences in the North Sea, the companies behind Jackdaw and the Rosebank oilfield project, which is being decided on separately, have sought environmental approval for existing licences. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: SpaceX, NatWest, Anthropic

  Wednesday 21 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The UK government has approved the controversial Jackdaw gasfield in the North Sea, a widely expected move that will nonetheless dismay environmental campaigners and a number of Labour MPs. While Labour's 2024 election manifesto committed to a ban on new drilling licences in the North Sea, the companies behind Jackdaw and the Rosebank oilfield project, which is being decided on separately, have sought environmental approval for existing licences. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Thames Water, North Sea workers, tobacco companies, John Lewis

  Tuesday 20 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Andy Burnham has told officials to rip up their plans for how to fix Thames Water and present him with more radical options for what to do with the stricken company. In an early test of his promise to bring "the essentials of life" under public control, the prime minister is urging his advisers to go back to the drawing board and create a new list of policies for the utility. One option being looked at is to convert about £100m of outstanding fines into a government stake in the company, saving its creditors money but giving ministers some say in how it is run. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Profit warnings, British steelmakers, Microsoft

  Monday 19 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The number of profit warnings from UK-listed companies has risen to the highest level in two years, as the war in the Middle East triggers a surge in costs for businesses before the budget. With less than a fortnight before John Healey's tax and spending statement to the Commons, the consultants EY-Parthenon said companies quoted on the London stock market had issued 65 warnings in the three months to the end of September. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Barclays, Renault, Welsh radar project, water companies, NHS, Israeli militants

  Sunday 18 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Barclays will spend more than £100m cutting high‑street roles as part of a major cost‑reduction drive, according to The Times. The FTSE 100 lender is set to be the first of the UK's big four banks to update investors on quarterly profits following reports that chancellor John Healey plans to raise taxes on the sector in his 28 October budget. Analysts expect Barclays to post around £2.4bn of Q3 profit, up from £2.1bn a year earlier, putting it on track for a record £10.4bn full‑year haul. Group finance director Anna Cross told analysts the bank will book £125m of Q3 restructuring costs in its UK arm, largely tied to personnel reductions.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Banks, Meta, John Lewis, Big Four accountancy firms

  Friday 16 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - John Healey is poised to tax Britain's banks in his 28 October budget, to help offset the damage inflicted on the public finances by war in the Middle East, the Guardian understands. The chancellor is in Bangkok, where the International Monetary Fund has praised the UK's progress towards balancing the books, urging him to "stay the course". To keep the Treasury's deficit reduction plans on track in the face of rising government borrowing costs, the Guardian understands Healey has decided to tap the financial sector for additional revenue. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Hospitality jobs, household bills, Netflix

  Thursday 15 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Bars, clubs and restaurants will offer up to 100,000 jobs to young people not in employment, education or training (Neet) over the next three years in an effort to give them a first step on the ladder into work. The move comes before the publication of a report on Neets by the former health secretary Alan Milburn, who has warned that the number of young people not in work or education in the UK could rise to 1.25 million over the next five years unless ministers intervene. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Tariffs, BitMEX, Character.AI

  Wednesday 14 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The business secretary has hit back at European demands for British tariffs on Chinese imports, saying the government will not change its trade rules because of pressure from Brussels. Jonathan Reynolds warned that the government would not bow to calls from other countries for the UK to hit Chinese vehicles with import taxes, despite political pressure to align with the EU in exchange for deeper future economic ties. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: IMF warning, Poundland, Burberry

  Tuesday 13 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The global economy "could soon test the limits of resilience", as emergency oil stocks run low and government budgets become overstretched, the International Monetary Fund has warned. In its twice-yearly World Economic Outlook, the IMF said global growth had withstood the Middle East conflict better than feared over the past six months. It said the rerouting of oil supplies away from the strait of Hormuz, and the release of strategic energy stocks, had helped to contain the impact on oil prices from the US-Iran war. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Budget, van drivers, Heathrow

  Monday 12 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - John Healey has been warned by Britain's leading tax and spending experts that his budget risks being a "work of fiction" unless he sets out plans to cover £35bn in spending pressures. As the war in the Middle East rattles the public finances, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the damage from higher inflation meant the chancellor would need to either top up funds for his current government spending plans or impose deep real-terms cuts by the end of the decade. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: KPMG, gig economy, airlines, Nscale, Riyadh, Axel Springer

  Sunday 11 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - KPMG has moved back into restructuring five years after selling its insolvency arm, hiring Chris Hogg from Alvarez & Marsal to lead the renewed push. The Times reported that the firm, which sold its UK restructuring business to HIG Capital in 2021, is rebuilding capability as demand for turnaround advice rises. Hogg previously spent nearly nine years at FTI Consulting before joining A&M.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Goldman Sachs bonuses, TalkTalk, credit card defaults

  Friday 09 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Top bosses at Goldman Sachs are in line to share a bonus pot worth up to $500m (£378m) this year, marking one of the biggest payouts in the Wall Street bank's history. The eye-watering sum will be shared between 20 bankers, with its chief executive, David Solomon, due to take about $100m (£75.6m) of the reward, which is made up of Goldman Sachs stock. That is more than double the value of the record $47m (£35.5m) annual pay packet he was granted last year. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Live petrol prices, Lotus, Taylor Wimpey

  Thursday 08 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Drivers will be able to see live petrol prices on Google Maps for the first time from Thursday, in a move that will help motorists shop around for the cheapest fuel. Millions of motorists will be able to find the cheapest petrol and diesel prices by searching for a local forecourt in the Google app, in what could prove to be "a major development" in making fuel prices more fair, according to campaigners. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Energy bills, O2 , BT/TalkTalk, Meta

  Wednesday 07 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - John Healey is planning a major intervention to cut energy bills for poorer households in this month's budget, after ministers became alarmed at forecasts that show bills rising by hundreds of pounds in January. The chancellor is working on plans to spend more than £1bn to help energy consumers, the bulk of which is likely to go towards increasing the discount given to households on certain benefits. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: FCA, housebuilders, Panmure Liberum

  Tuesday 06 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - A top UK regulator has launched an investigation into how it handled a whistleblower - who highlighted alleged ties between the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the US commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick - after he took his own life. The British banker Simon Andriesz died late last month aged 57, the campaign group Transparency Task Force, of which he was a member, confirmed over the weekend. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: North Sea strikes, BT/TalkTalk, bank taxes

  Monday 05 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - A looming strike by oil workers in the North Sea could "severely disrupt" UK fuel supplies, the Unite union has said, adding that staff were left with no choice after a breakdown in pay talks with the Texas oil company Apache. The union said Apache workers had "emphatically" backed strike action after being given what it said was an unacceptable pay offer that amounted to a real-terms pay cut for many employees, at a time when the company was "raking in eye-watering profits". - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Talk-Talk, Superstruct, Jaguar, Deliveroo, OpenAI, Manchester City

  Sunday 04 Oct 2026

  (Sharecast News) - A rival bidder has urged ministers to block BT's move to acquire TalkTalk's wholesale arm, PXC, warning the deal would hand the former state telecoms giant "near‑total dominance" of the UK broadband market. Tom O'Hagan - a former TalkTalk executive leading a competing bid with private‑equity firm Epiris - argued the takeover would reverse years of regulatory efforts to boost competition. O'Hagan made the comments in The Telegraph, which reported BT had entered the auction at the last minute as TalkTalk battles a £1.4bn debt load and potential insolvency.

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