• Friday newspaper round-up: Nigel Farage, diesel prices, Kraken Technology

  Friday 10 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to announce a new City "skills compact" that will commit firms such as Barclays and Lloyds to retraining thousands of financial sector workers for the AI revolution. The financial services skills compact will be launched on Tuesday, during what is likely to be Reeves's final Mansion House speech to City bosses before Andy Burnham's expected takeover of No 10. The government-backed initiative will commit employers to improving workers' skills and helping them "keep pace" with significant technological changes that have prompted fears of mass redundancies. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: UK vets, Sizewell B, Terry Smith

  Thursday 09 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - UK vets may have to have a licence and cap prescriptions for pet medicine at £21 under plans being considered by the government. Ministers are also considering establishing a regulator for the veterinary sector, including inspections, a mandatory licensing system and published compliance reports to improve accountability and choice. Every vet practice could need an official operating licence - similar to GP surgeries and care homes - under proposals in a white paper. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Regional income divide, John Lewis, mortgages

  Wednesday 08 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Britain's deep regional income divide has barely changed in 30 years despite the promises of successive governments to narrow the gap, according to a report showing the challenge for Andy Burnham. As the prime minister-in-waiting prepares for government, the Resolution Foundation said almost no progress had been made since 1997 to tackle stark divisions in household income, before housing costs are taken into account, between the richest and poorest parts of the country. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Gambling customers, student loan repayments, Russian bankruptcies

  Tuesday 07 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The Scottish government is about to consider a sweeping moratorium on building new datacentres, putting a key plank of the UK's AI strategy at risk. Last Sunday the Scottish National party (SNP)'s national council passed a motion to freeze all new datacentres in Scotland. That motion has been sent to the Scottish government to consider. It could apply to all datacentre projects that have not yet received planning permission - although its exact implementation is up to the Scottish government to decide. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Affordable housing, mobile coverage, unemployment

  Monday 06 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Half of all affordable housing supply in rural England could be under threat under plans being considered by ministers to relax regulations for private housing developers, according to analysis. The government has proposed ending affordable housing quotas - known as section 106 agreements - for new developments of between 10 and 49 houses in an effort to jumpstart sluggish housebuilding rates. Ministers are due to make a final decision within weeks on whether developers should be allowed to make cash payments to local authorities instead. - Guardian

• Newspaper round-up: Ukraine strikes, Next, Barratt Redrow, EU EES, Elon Musk, OpenAI, Neil Kinnock, state pension

  Sunday 05 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Ukraine launched a fresh long‑range strike on Russian energy infrastructure early on Saturday, hitting an oil terminal outside St Petersburg, according to The Telegraph. Dozens of drones targeted Russia's second‑largest city overnight, with one impacting the terminal and another crashing within the grounds of Peterhof, the former imperial residence. St Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov said on social media that an oil facility in the city's Kirovsky district had been struck, adding that Russian air defences shot down 72 drones.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Ineos, EG Group, Hill Group

  Friday 03 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The boss of Currys has said supplies of air conditioning and fans are "tight" ahead of another UK heatwave, expected next week, after a boom in sales sent retailers scrambling to source new stock. Alex Baldock, chief executive of the electrical goods retailer, said cooling kit had been "flying off the shelves" during June's record heat in England. Sales of fans were up nearly 3,000% over the most recent heatwave weekend compared with a week earlier, while air conditioning sales increased 330%. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: EU car industry, Getty Images-Shutterstock, United Utilities

  Thursday 02 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The EU's car industry has called for the UK to be fully included in new "made in Europe" rules that threaten to shut out British manufacturers from their biggest export market. The European Automobile Manufacturers Association (Acea) on Wednesday urged Brussels to give the UK, Turkey and Morocco "justified, targeted exemptions" to the rules, which will require cars and parts to be made within the EU to qualify for subsidies or public procurement. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Fuel poverty, Asda, BoE

  Wednesday 01 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Millions of households in Great Britain will be pushed into fuel poverty after months of volatility on the global gas markets as energy bills rise by more than £220 a year under the government's price cap from Wednesday. As the cap on gas and electricity rates rises to the equivalent of £1,862 a year, the number of households forced to spend more than 10% of their income on energy bills will increase to 13.5m from almost 11.3m in April, according to fuel poverty campaigners. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Brompton, TG Jones, housebuilders

  Tuesday 30 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The French sports gear retailer Decathlon and a Chinese investment group that was an early backer of Labubu soft toys have bought stakes in the British folding bike maker Brompton, as its boss said the cycling market was recovering from a slump in sales. Decathlon has acquired a 10% stake in the manufacturer while BA Capital has bought 5% in a deal understood to collectively be worth about £18m. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Chipmakers, HS2, Revolut

  Monday 29 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Shares in chipmakers have surged in the first half of this year as investors piled into companies that make the hardware underpinning the AI boom, according to analysis. Investors have driven up the value of semiconductor and memory chip manufacturers, whose profits have soared during 2026, at the expense of some large software companies, which have fallen out of favour this year. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: London homes, ITV, United Utilities, Iran, Ukraine, Ocado, digital tax

  Sunday 28 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Around one third of new homes in London failed to sell to private buyers last year, underlining the scale of the housebuilding challenge facing incoming mayor Andy Burnham, according to the Telegraph. CBRE analysis of Molior data showed developers abandoned attempts to sell 34% of new units in 2026 after failing to find buyers, up from 25% in 2025. Instead of going to private purchasers, the homes were offloaded to investment funds or housing associations. The figures highlight mounting strain in London's housing market, where weak sales are making new development increasingly unviable. The slowdown also casts fresh doubt on Labour's pledge to deliver 1.5m homes by 2029.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Crown estate, UK food and drink exports, Ocado

  Friday 26 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - King Charles's property management company has made more than £1bn for the third consecutive year thanks to the boom in offshore windfarms paid for through energy bills. The crown estate, the royals' portfolio of land and property, reported £1.2bn in profit for the last financial year, almost three times the amount it made three years ago. Two-thirds came from the offshore wind industry. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: UK graduates, Andy Burnham, Micron Technology

  Thursday 25 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Great Britain's grid operator is expected to pay millions to fire up gas power plants to avoid a rare summer power supply crunch on Wednesday evening as extreme heat puts pressure on the energy system. The National Energy System Operator (Neso) is expected to pay about £10m on Wednesday to secure enough electricity to meet demand as households turn on air conditioners and electric fans, according to industry data. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: WH Smith, card payments, BBC News

  Wednesday 24 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Small suppliers including the charity Help for Heroes are to lose at least half the money owed to them by the former WH Smith high street chain if a planned restructure is voted through this week. The books to paperclips retailer, which has 450 stores, was bought by the private equity firm Modella Capital last year and rebranded TG Jones. It has said it is likely that it will have to call in administrators if creditors, including shop landlords, do not approve an amended restructuring plan, seen by the Guardian, designed to cut costs in a vote on Wednesday. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Rail passengers, Lime, BoE

  Tuesday 23 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Rail passengers have been told to attempt to travel only if "absolutely essential" and check trains are running, with extreme heat expected to disrupt services around Britain. Temperatures are forecast to rise to 37C across most of southern England and Wales over the next three days, and potentially to 40C in the most affected areas. Intercity trains from London to Birmingham, Manchester and beyond are expected to be among the worst affected. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Tech companies, Pennon, David Lloyd gyms

  Monday 22 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Leave-voting areas have seen faster relative growth in foreign workers since the Brexit referendum, a Guardian investigation has found. Data analysis suggests that the decade since the Brexit vote may not have matched the expectations of many Leave supporters, showing their local areas have also become relatively more deprived over the same period. - Guardian

• Friday newspaper round-up: Fujitsu, Telegram, Grenson

  Friday 19 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The Japanese tech company at the centre of the Post Office IT scandal is facing calls from a parliamentary committee to make an "immediate" payment towards the compensation bill for victims. Fujitsu supplied the faulty Horizon software to the UK Post Office, which led to branch operators being wrongly prosecuted over discrepancies in their business accounts. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Brexit, HMRC, new homes

  Thursday 18 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Brexit has depressed UK exports to the EU by 12%, and rejoining the customs union would undo only a fraction of the damage, research shared with the Guardian shows. With the UK's future relationship with the bloc likely to feature prominently in a potential Labour leadership contest, the economists John Springford and Anton Spisak, of the Centre for European Reform, provide fresh evidence of the damage caused by exiting. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: John Lewis, British American Tobacco, Shein/Temu

  Wednesday 17 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - John Lewis is to spend £20m on a revamp of its Glasgow store in the city centre's Buchanan Galleries in a vote of confidence in the shopping mall not long ago scheduled for demolition. It is the largest cash injection within a wider plan to spend £50m this financial year on refreshing its shops, with department stores in Reading, Cambridge, Leicester and Liverpool all earmarked for an upgrade. - Guardian

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