• 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

• Monday newspaper round-up: OBR, Rolls-Royce, small businesses

  Monday 02 Mar 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves must reform the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) to open the way to more public investment, an alliance of thinktanks has argued ahead of the chancellor's spring forecast on Tuesday. With Keir Starmer's government under intense pressure after Labour's defeat by the Greens in Thursday's Gorton and Denton byelection, the thinktanks called on Reeves to review the watchdog's remit. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Iran, Reform UK, Ukraine

  Sunday 01 Mar 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Iranian state media confirmed that supreme leader Ali Khamenei has been killed, following US‑Israeli strikes that marked the opening phase of a campaign aimed at regime change. Khamenei had not been seen since the bombardment began, with satellite imagery indicating heavy damage to his secure compound in Saturday's initial barrage.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Mandelson, social media, Lloyds

  Friday 27 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Peter Mandelson is facing an inquiry by the EU's anti-fraud agency after the European Commission requested the body look into his activities during his time as trade commissioner in Brussels. The commission said it referred the peer, 72, to the European Anti-Fraud Office, known as Olaf, last week after the US Department of Justice released documents allegedly showing he shared sensitive government information with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: UK Power Networks, Starlink, farmers

  Thursday 26 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - A French utility has agreed to buy the owner of the electricity cables and power lines across London, the south-east and the east of England in a deal worth £10.5bn. Paris-headquartered Engie said on Wednesday that it had struck a deal to buy UK Power Networks (UKPN) in a "major milestone" for the company's ambition to become the "best energy transition utility". - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: House listings, Sizewell C, Wayve, PwC

  Wednesday 25 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Spring has come early to the UK housing market, with a surge in people listing their homes for sale as confidence returns to the sector, a report by the property website Zoopla found. The site said this month was on course to record the highest number of newly listed homes for sale in any February for a decade. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Paramount Skydance, retail crime, unemployment

  Tuesday 24 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Paramount Skydance has increased its bid for Warner Bros Discovery, Reuters reported on Monday, raising the stakes in the bidding war for the historic studio and its broadcast and cable TV assets in an effort to beat out rival suitor Netflix. It could not immediately be determined how the bid was revised. Warner Bros and Paramount declined to comment, while Netflix could not immediately be reached. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: US tariffs, job vacancies, Mayfair hotels

  Monday 23 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The US will not back out of tariff deals it has already sealed with countries around the world, including the UK, the EU, Japan, Switzerland and others, Donald Trump's trade representative Jamieson Greer said on Sunday. The US supreme court ruled on Friday that many of the tariffs imposed by the US president were illegal, leading Trump to announce a new 15% global tariff on all imports the next day. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: UK energy costs, Trump tariffs, Ghislaine Maxwell, Ukraine, BrewDog, Brompton Bicycle

  Sunday 22 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The UK risks losing its position as a major manufacturing hub after a sharp rise in energy costs forced around 40% of firms to scale back investment, according to a report from the CBI and Energy UK, cited by The Guardian.

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