• Friday newspaper round-up: Fujitsu, Telegram, Grenson

  Friday 19 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The Japanese tech company at the centre of the Post Office IT scandal is facing calls from a parliamentary committee to make an "immediate" payment towards the compensation bill for victims. Fujitsu supplied the faulty Horizon software to the UK Post Office, which led to branch operators being wrongly prosecuted over discrepancies in their business accounts. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Brexit, HMRC, new homes

  Thursday 18 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Brexit has depressed UK exports to the EU by 12%, and rejoining the customs union would undo only a fraction of the damage, research shared with the Guardian shows. With the UK's future relationship with the bloc likely to feature prominently in a potential Labour leadership contest, the economists John Springford and Anton Spisak, of the Centre for European Reform, provide fresh evidence of the damage caused by exiting. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: John Lewis, British American Tobacco, Shein/Temu

  Wednesday 17 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - John Lewis is to spend £20m on a revamp of its Glasgow store in the city centre's Buchanan Galleries in a vote of confidence in the shopping mall not long ago scheduled for demolition. It is the largest cash injection within a wider plan to spend £50m this financial year on refreshing its shops, with department stores in Reading, Cambridge, Leicester and Liverpool all earmarked for an upgrade. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: EVs, Aviva, Doncasters Group

  Tuesday 16 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Motorists in the UK and EU should not expect a sharp drop in the cost of electric vehicles despite increased competition among Chinese manufacturers, one of the country's biggest electric carmakers has said. Brian Gu, the vice-chair of the manufacturer Xpeng, said that Chinese carmakers could compete on quality to win customers in the EU and UK, rather than unleashing a brutal price war as they have in China. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: EV targets, Anthropic, Johnson & Johnson

  Monday 15 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Britain's industrial sector is at risk of collapse as thousands of companies warn that they could face bankruptcy within the next year because of high energy prices, according to an industry survey. The manufacturers' body Make UK said the latest feedback from its members found that many would not be able to cope for much longer with energy costs that were twice the average in continental Europe and four times higher than in the US. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Junior doctors strike, Russian 'social explosion', defence spending, Vistry, DWP overpayments, UK-Japan investment

  Sunday 14 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Junior doctors in England have called off next week's planned four‑day strike after ministers tabled a new pay and progression offer, according to The Telegraph. Members of the British Medical Association, now formally known as resident doctors, had been due to walk out from 0700 BST on Monday in what would have been their 16th round of industrial action since 2023. Health secretary James Murray welcomed the decision, calling the deal "positive and welcome" and thanking NHS staff for their efforts. The offer, which covers jobs, pay and career progression, will now be put to BMA members for a vote in the coming weeks.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Elon Musk, Blackstone boss, Ardmore Construction

  Friday 12 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The World Cup will be the most lucrative sports event ITV has ever aired, the broadcaster has said, with bosses calling the tournament a "six-week summer Super Bowl moment" for TV advertising. The channel is airing 51 of the 104 matches across the men's tournament, co-hosted by the US, Mexico and Canada, which is the biggest yet after an expansion from 32 to 48 teams. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Steel tariffs, student loans, Anthropic

  Thursday 11 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Ministers are expected to drop some planned tariffs on foreign steel after UK manufacturers said the measures would significantly increase their costs. Representatives of the Department for Business and Trade are meeting leaders of steel trading business groups on Wednesday and Thursday with a view to finalising details of a reprieve for certain industries. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Anthropic, renewable energy projects, Boots

  Wednesday 10 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Anthropic, the maker of the Claude artificial intelligence (AI) models, made a new version of its technology available to the general public on Tuesday while restricting its use in sensitive areas. Dubbed Fable 5, the model is the first to be made widely available from the company's new Mythos class - its most advanced lineup of AI technology, unveiled in April but restricted to a small set of partner institutions for months over cybersecurity concerns. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: OpenAI, GSK, Sam Bankman-Fried

  Tuesday 09 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - OpenAI has filed confidentially to go public on the US stock market, according to a company blogpost published on Monday. The artificial intelligence giant's debut on Wall Street is expected to be one of the most highly valued listings in market history with a valuation at more than $850bn. "We recently submitted a confidential S-1. We expect it to leak so we're just announcing it," the company's post reads. "We have not decided on timing yet; it may be a while because there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company. But it's a complicated set of tradeoffs and this gives us the option to go public sooner if that ends up being best." - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Temporary workers, bogus insurance claims, Stonegate

  Monday 08 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - UK companies are increasingly hiring temporary workers instead of permanent staff because of low confidence in the economy and higher cost pressures, according to a report. Recruiters reported a strong increase in offers of temporary roles in May, according to new research from KPMG and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: IMF, Brexit, UK corporatism, M&S, social housing, EV tariffs, Ukraine, Iran

  Sunday 07 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Labour risks being forced to seek emergency assistance from the International Monetary Fund as Britain edges toward a debt crisis, leading economists have warned, according to The Telegraph. Former IMF chief economist Ken Rogoff told the paper that repeated shocks - including Covid, Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the Iran war - had left the UK facing a "more than 50:50 chance" of a major debt crisis by 2030. Rogoff said such a scenario could trigger steep tax rises or spending cuts, and warned that if the Bank of England were to lose control of inflation, Britain might require a larger rescue package with IMF "support". The comments were framed as a warning to Labour leadership contender Andy Burnham.

• Friday newspaper round-up: xAI, Goalhanger, Skipton, Trafigura

  Friday 05 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - New claimants have come forward to take legal action against Elon Musk's company xAI after the Labour MP Jess Asato launched a test case against the firm over demeaning sexualised material created by its Grok AI tool. A handful of complainants contacted Asato's lawyer on Thursday in response to coverage of the MP's decision to sue Musk's company for damages over its creation and circulation of fake images of her in a bikini and an AI-created video that she said showed her "being chloroformed and prepared for a sexual assault". - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Betfair, Revolut CEO, Charles Tyrwhitt

  Thursday 04 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The widow of a gambling addict who took his own life after falling £18,000 into debt begins a legal claim on Thursday against Betfair that could have far-reaching consequences for the UK's gambling industry. Luke Ashton, 40, from Leicester, died in April 2021 after suffering from a gambling disorder that led him to place thousands of bets with the company, which sent him promotional "free" bets. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper preview: South West Water, Hyve, Royal Exchange

  Wednesday 03 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - A utility company has been fined £1.85m for supplying water unfit for human consumption after a parasite outbreak made hundreds of people sick and forced thousands of households to boil their water. South West Water (SWW) pleaded guilty to the criminal offence relating to a cryptosporidiosis outbreak in Brixham, Devon, in the spring and summer of 2024. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Anthropic, unemployment, business rates

  Tuesday 02 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - More than a million jobs, higher wages, nearly half a trillion pounds in investment in the pipeline - the UK's green economy is powering ahead, according to research by the country's leading business organisation. The net zero economy, which is worth more than £100bn a year, benefits all of the UK, according to the CBI Economics analysis commissioned by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit thinktank, despite critics who want to abolish the UK's net zero targets. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Arm CEO, Meta, Jes Staley

  Monday 01 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The UK's financial watchdog is being urged to prove its relationship with the US tech company Palantir will not provide the Trump administration with backdoor access to troves of sensitive citizen and commercial data. A US law that can oblige tech companies to disclose information to American authorities may apply to Palantir's deal to help the Financial Conduct Authority detect crime, Martin Wrigley MP, a member of the House of Commons science and technology select committee, has warned. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Easyjet, dark trading, Tempest fighter jet, Keir Starmer, Premier Group Recruitment, Lebanon

  Sunday 31 May 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Easyjet could become the latest company to exit London's struggling stock market after US investment fund Castlelake said it was considering a takeover approach, according to The Times. The disclosure triggered a formal "put up or shut up" deadline under City rules. A successful bid would add the airline to the growing list of London‑listed firms snapped up by overseas buyers taking advantage of depressed UK valuations.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Nationwide, Anthropic, Marks & Spencer

  Friday 29 May 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Labour is poised for a fresh attempt at changing the welfare system after a major government-backed report said youth unemployment was costing Britain more than £125bn a year. As official figures revealed the number of young people not working or studying had surpassed a million for the first time in more than a decade, Alan Milburn said the government had a responsibility to the next generation to take action. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Food crisis, Universal Music, Samsung

  Thursday 28 May 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Britain is "sleepwalking into a food crisis" caused by extreme weather, inflation and the impacts of the Iran war - and the government is failing to take the threat seriously, food experts have said. Farmers are facing severe strain from the current heatwave following a dry spring, with many crops likely to yield less as temperatures rise beyond their tolerance. Livestock are also suffering heat stress and there is a rising risk of wildfires. Economic losses are likely to be measured in the hundreds of millions of pounds. - Guardian

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