Press round-up from ShareCast

Sunday newspaper round-up: Cardiff summit, Reform UK, Nats, JLR, Anthropic, Tesco

Sun 13 September 2026 08:49

(Sharecast News) - The leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will meet in Cardiff on Monday to sign a joint declaration calling for the right to hold independence referendums, according to The Telegraph. The paper said the unprecedented summit w

Friday newspaper round-up: Energy bills, triple lock, ONS data crisis

Fri 11 September 2026 07:20

(Sharecast News) - Consumers will pay higher energy bills unless the UK government speeds up work on a vast programme of upgrades to the electricity grid to enable the switch to renewables, the public spending watchdog has warned. The National Audit Offic

Thursday newspaper round-up: Migration, air traffic control, triple lock

Thu 10 September 2026 07:24

(Sharecast News) - Andy Burnham must overhaul Shabana Mahmood's migration reforms or risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment, the TUC general secretary, Paul Nowak, has warned. Speaking ahead of the TUC's annual congress in Bright

Wednesday newspaper round-up: Air traffic control breakdown, Bet365, consumer finance claims

Wed 09 September 2026 07:22

(Sharecast News) - Flight delays and cancellations were expected to continue into Wednesday at UK airports after another air traffic control failure kept planes grounded for hours, affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers. At least 177 flights schedu

Tuesday newspaper round-up: UK retailers, Volkswagen, stock market funds

Tue 08 September 2026 07:24

(Sharecast News) - UK retailers plan to create up to 100,000 short-term placements for young people not in employment, education or training (Neet) over the next three years to give them a first step on the ladder to paid work. In partnership with the Dep

Monday newspaper round-up: JLR, family-owned manufacturing businesses, airline passengers

Mon 07 September 2026 07:25

(Sharecast News) - Professional designers should not feel "threatened" by the rapid growth of generative AI, according to business leaders, despite fears over job losses in the sector. With design and film production companies and manufacturers all adopti

Sunday newspaper round-up: US-Iran strikes, EU border delays, Jaguar Land Rover, UK taxes, M&S, TG Jones

Sun 06 September 2026 08:49

(Sharecast News) - The US military said it had struck three Iranian oil tankers after American warships came under missile attack, warning it would "if necessary, destroy Iran's limited and exposed oil fleet" as tensions in the region escalated. According

Friday newspaper round-up: Volkswagen, Very Group, Harvey Nichols

Fri 04 September 2026 07:18

(Sharecast News) - The car company Volkswagen has announced it will shed 100,000 jobs by the end of the decade after being hit by US tariffs and fierce competition from Chinese rivals. The German manufacturer said management and unions had agreed as part

Thursday newspaper round-up: Self-driving taxis, ENRC, Barclays

Thu 03 September 2026 07:14

(Sharecast News) - Andy Burnham moved to calm volatile bond markets on Wednesday as surging borrowing costs threatened to wreck plans for his government's crucial first budget next month. After a days-long sell-off of government bonds - and with the chanc

Wednesday newspaper round-up: defence spending, LSEG, Sports Direct

Wed 02 September 2026 07:21

(Sharecast News) - The chancellor, John Healey, must be prepared to raise taxes for middle earners if he wants to fund significantly higher defence spending, the Resolution Foundation thinktank has said. Healey resigned from Keir Starmer's government in J