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  • Friday newspaper round-up: Tata battery factory, tech firms, UK tax rules
    10 Apr, 2026 07:11
    (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

  • Thursday newspaper round-up: Subsidised energy, John Lewis boss, Anthropic
    09 Apr, 2026 07:10
    (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,

  • Wednesday newspaper round-up: Meta, Royal Mail, Octopus Investments
    25 Mar, 2026 07:24
    (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 th

  • Tuesday newspaper round-up: winemakers, easyJet, farmers, EWIT
    24 Mar, 2026 07:13
    (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 grou

  • Wednesday newspaper round-up: UK inflation, net zero, Crispin Odey
    11 Mar, 2026 07:25
    (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 i

  • Thursday newspaper round-up: 'Buy EU', BrewDog, Morgan Stanley
    05 Mar, 2026 07:23
    (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 Wednesda

  • Wednesday newspaper round-up: News Corp, BBC, Asda
    04 Mar, 2026 07:19
    (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 pres

  • Tuesday newspaper round-up: Anthropic's Claude, BrewDog, energy bills
    03 Mar, 2026 07:19
    (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,

  • Monday newspaper round-up: OBR, Rolls-Royce, small businesses
    02 Mar, 2026 07:15
    (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 un

  • Sunday newspaper round-up: Iran, Reform UK, Ukraine
    01 Mar, 2026 09:16
    (Sharecast News) - Iranian state media confirmed that supreme leader Ali Khamenei has been killed, following USIsraeli strikes that marked the opening phase of a campaign aimed at regime change. Khamenei had not been seen since the bombardment began, w

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