Press round-up from ShareCast

Friday newspaper round-up: Romance fraud, Telegraph takeover, Sky

Fri 17 October 2025 07:19

(Sharecast News) - The City regulator has called on banks and payment firms to bring in stricter controls protecting customers from romance fraud after a study showed a number of missed "red flags" that led to people losing huge sums of money. The review

Thursday newspaper round-up: Welfare cuts, PHEVs, London City Airport

Thu 16 October 2025 07:17

(Sharecast News) - Britain's leading tax and spending experts have urged Rachel Reeves to consider announcing billions of pounds in welfare cuts in next month's budget to help placate jittery financial markets. After the chancellor gave her strongest hint

Wednesday newspaper round-up: Solar farm, mortgage rates, Oura

Wed 15 October 2025 07:20

(Sharecast News) - Ed Miliband has approved the UK's biggest solar farm, which will be built in a county where Reform UK's anti-renewables agenda has won rising support. The energy secretary on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for the Tillbridge solar farm to be

Tuesday newspaper round-up: Greenpeace, Temu, Strava, Wayve

Tue 14 October 2025 07:21

(Sharecast News) - Greenpeace is threatening to sue King Charles's property management company, accusing it of exploiting its monopoly ownership of the seabed. The environmental lobby group alleges the crown estate has driven up costs for wind power devel

Monday newspaper round-up: IFS warning, crypto, housebuilders

Mon 13 October 2025 07:18

(Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves must avoid "a half-baked dash for revenue" or risk damaging economic growth as the chancellor seeks to close a large gap in next month's budget, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said. The tax and spending thinktank has

Sunday newspaper round-up: Autumn budget, Jonathan Powell, China tariffs, BMW, Lower Thames crossing, Israel ceasefire

Sun 12 October 2025 16:07

(Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves has signalled the better off will be forced to "contribute more" as she prepares to raise taxes at the Budget. Treasury sources have said that the Chancellor will not cut spending on public services or significantly increa

Friday newspaper round-up: Rishi Sunak, councils, Oracle

Fri 10 October 2025 07:17

(Sharecast News) - Rishi Sunak has been appointed as a senior adviser by the US technology companies Microsoft and Anthropic. The former British prime minister's pair of new jobs emerged on Thursday in letters published by Westminster's office of the Advi

Thursday newspaper round-up: Pub opening hours, Elon Musk, tax fears

Thu 09 October 2025 07:19

(Sharecast News) - Pubs, clubs and restaurants will be able to open into the early hours as part of Labour's drive for economic growth, a move which critics say will lead to more drunken disorder. Ministers are pushing ahead with plans to allow premises t

Wednesday newspaper round-up: Tariffs, pension ages, Revolut co-founder

Wed 08 October 2025 07:22

(Sharecast News) - The EU has announced it will match Donald Trump's steel tariffs, doubling levies on imports to 50% in a decision condemned as "an existential threat" to the industry in the UK. With 80% of British exports going to the EU, the change pos

Tuesday newspaper round-up: JLR, Ineos, pensions

Tue 07 October 2025 07:22

(Sharecast News) - The world's wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system, according to research. A report by the climate thinktank Ember found th