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Thursday newspaper round-up: Transport bosses, online deliveries, car exports

Thu 30 September 2021 07:28

(Sharecast News) - Airline, shipping and trucking bosses have joined union leaders in calling for governments around the world to ease coronavirus restrictions on transport workers to help avoid a Christmas supply chain crisis. Industry representatives fr

Wednesday newspaper round-up: Supply chain issues, Multiverse, easyJet

Wed 29 September 2021 07:30

(Sharecast News) - Britain's supply chain strain could last until after Christmas, Boris Johnson has admitted as he urged motorists to stop panic-buying fuel by insisting supplies were "improving" - despite thousands of forecourts remaining dry. The prime

Tuesday newspaper round-up: Wise, National Lottery, Octopus Energy

Tue 28 September 2021 07:28

(Sharecast News) - The billionaire chief executive of the money transfer provider Wise has been fined hundreds of thousands of pounds by HMRC for deliberately defaulting on his taxes, The Telegraph can reveal. Kristo Kaarmann, the Estonian co-founder of W

Monday newspaper round-up: Petrol stations, house prices, Octopus Energy

Mon 27 September 2021 07:29

(Sharecast News) - Hundreds of soldiers could be scrambled to deliver fuel to petrol stations running dry across the country due to panic buying and a shortage of drivers under an emergency plan expected to be considered by Boris Johnson on Monday. The pr

Friday newspaper round-up: NHS app, Uber, John Lewis

Fri 24 September 2021 07:28

(Sharecast News) - Undisclosed companies are analysing facial data collected by the NHS app, which is used by more than 16 million English citizens, prompting fresh concern about the role of outsourcing to private businesses in the service. Data security

Thursday newspaper round-up: GSK, US pension funds, LVMH

Thu 23 September 2021 07:26

(Sharecast News) - GSK's chief executive, Emma Walmsley, has come under pressure from a second activist hedge fund, Bluebell Capital Partners, which has taken a stake in the drugmaker to push for change at the top, including demanding that she reapply for

Wednesday newspaper round-up: Energy bills, Pret A Manger, BT, Evergrande

Wed 22 September 2021 07:30

(Sharecast News) - Ministers are considering ways to cut energy bills for the poorest households amid soaring gas prices as analysis suggests a typical low-income UK family will be £1,750 worse off by next April. On Tuesday Boris Johnson brushed away wor

Tuesday newspaper round-up: Energy crisis, Pimlico Plumbers, Stagecoach

Tue 21 September 2021 07:24

(Sharecast News) - The chief executive of Universal Music has said the hotly anticipated €40bn flotation of the world's largest record company this week does not mark the peak of the streaming-led recovery of the music industry, with billions of dollars

Monday newspaper round-up: Gas prices, Virgin Money, OneWeb

Mon 20 September 2021 07:31

(Sharecast News) - Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, will hold an emergency summit with gas industry chiefs on Monday morning in an effort to contain the fallout caused by soaring market prices on consumers and businesses. Mid-level suppliers will b

Sunday newspaper round-up: Breast cancer, Food shortages, IAG

Sun 19 September 2021 14:30

(Sharecast News) - The trial of a new drug to treat an aggressive form of breast cancer has "shattered expectations" raising hopes of a "cure", according to its maker, AstraZeneca. The British pharmaceuticals company said three quarters of women in the tr