• Friday newspaper round-up: Gas power stations, Apple, Raleigh

  Friday 07 Aug 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Trains across parts of north-west England have ground to a halt after a power failure hit the signalling centre controlling the railway in the region. Passengers awaiting Northern and TransPennine trains have been advised not to travel, with widespread cancellations and other services delayed by more than an hour already. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: AI models, bank taxes, AstraZeneca

  Thursday 06 Aug 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Advanced artificial intelligence models have stunned the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) by carrying out a hacking campaign against real people during a cybersecurity test. The institute said the incident was unprecedented and involved sending targeted emails to software developers in an attempt to pass a cyber challenge. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Palantir, SpaceX, Aston Martin, Ryanair

  Wednesday 05 Aug 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The software group Palantir paid just £2m in corporation tax in the UK in 2024, despite holding public sector contracts worth hundreds of millions, thanks to tax breaks that are likely to reduce its contributions to governments around the world for years to come. The US-headquartered company, which has harnessed AI to secure lucrative work for the NHS and the Ministry of Defence, is growing exponentially. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Tariffs, used EVs, Apple

  Tuesday 04 Aug 2026

  (Sharecast News) - A coalition of 25 US states sued the Trump administration on Monday over new tariffs pegged at 10% to 12.5% on goods from 60 trading partners, calling them a pretext for replacing import taxes struck down by the supreme court in February. The states are asking the US Court of International Trade to halt the tariffs, declare them unlawful and order refunds of duties that have already been paid. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Truth Social, TalkTalk, Brunswick

  Monday 03 Aug 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The chancellor, John Healey, has said the government is standing by to prevent the public from "being taken for a ride at the pump or the till" as the Iran war continues to hit prices. While he said there had been "no significant evidence of so-called price gouging" during the crisis, he used a weekend column to tell the big retailers that ministers were "watching closely" for any signs of profiteering. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Help to Buy, British Airways, Iran, Brontanax jet, UK constitution, UKGI, Ceuta, FIFA

  Sunday 02 Aug 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Andy Burnham has received a sizeable lift to the public finances after new figures showed the Treasury has made almost £2bn from George Osborne's Help to Buy scheme, The Times reported. Homes England's annual report revealed the exchequer has booked £1.24bn in profit from repaid equity loans, alongside £500m in interest payments. The combined £1.74bn windfall would be enough to fund a year‑long extension of the prime minister's temporary VAT suspension on energy bills. The disclosure comes as housing minister Matthew Pennycook is "actively reviewing" a potential Labour revival of Help to Buy.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Anthropic, JLR, Apple

  Friday 31 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Anthropic ⁠said on Thursday its AI Claude model hacked ⁠systems of ⁠three organizations during testing, days after rival OpenAI ⁠revealed a rogue agent had gone on a days-long ⁠hacking spree at AI firm Hugging ‌Face. Claude gained ‌unauthorized access to the ‌systems during cybersecurity evaluations after a misconfiguration allowed the models to reach the internet from testing environments that ‌were supposed to be isolated, Anthropic said. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Carmakers, worklessness, Macfarlanes

  Thursday 30 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Carmakers are delaying final decisions to invest in UK factories until electric car sales rules are relaxed, according to the head of the British car industry's lobby group. The chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), Mike Hawes, said those with existing UK operations were considering building new models, but had held back so far. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Apple, Netflix, grid operators

  Wednesday 29 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Andy Burnham has been warned by a leading thinktank of "very difficult trade-offs in the next autumn budget" if the Iran war keeps oil prices and inflation high. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said the new prime minister faced a "challenging inheritance" and his plans to revamp public services would meet severe pressure from persistently higher prices. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Johnson & Johnson, Amazon, Ocado

  Tuesday 28 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Johnson & Johnson said it would pay an estimated $5.5bn to resolve tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging its baby ⁠powder and other talc products caused ⁠ovarian cancer, in a landmark deal that could end a contentious, decade-long legal battle. Johnson & Johnson on Monday said the settlement covers about 76,000 claims, including ones consolidated in a federal court in New Jersey, and related cases in state court, ⁠representing nearly all of the remaining talc claims against the company. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Heathrow airport, wind farms, Pinewood Technologies

  Monday 27 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Expanding Heathrow airport will take thousands of jobs from other regions of the UK, including almost 10,000 from the West Midlands alone, according to an analysis of the government's own forecasts. An economic paper published by the Department for Transport last month shows that airports in England and Wales are likely to lose millions of passengers if Heathrow builds a third runway, in a significant blow to regional jobs. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: North Korean bots, Asda, Wes Streeting, BP, Rosebank, Reform UK

  Sunday 26 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - More than 700 suspected North Korean bots attempted to secure remote‑working roles at a major UK bank last month, in what UK authorities believe was part of Pyongyang's wider effort to infiltrate British firms' data, systems and payrolls. According to The Times, the applications were intercepted by the bank's own recruitment AI, which flagged the candidates as suspicious during initial screening. The report said other large organisations have faced similar attempts, including cybersecurity group Darktrace, which last year identified and blocked a suspected bot through a human interviewer. UK officials have warned it was "almost certain" that North Korean IT workers are actively targeting British companies. - The Times

• Friday newspaper round-up: Tariffs, regional mayors, Leon boss

  Friday 24 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Donald Trump has imposed a fresh round of sweeping tariffs on more than 80 countries to replace a 10% global duty that was due to expire, setting off a wave of criticism and protests from US allies and major trading partners. In its latest attempt to instate aggressive trade policies despite challenges from the America's highest court, the US has imposed a tariff of between a 10% or 12.5% on dozens of countries, including the United Kingdom, Mexico, Canada, Australia, India, China and the 27 countries that make up the European Union. It effectively replaces the blanket 10% tariff that Trump imposed in February, right after the US supreme court declared that many of his earlier tariffs were illegal. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Business rates, Barclays, Moonshot

  Thursday 23 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Business rates will be cut by 20% for pubs, clubs and live music venues across England from April next year, Downing Street has announced. The discount will apply to nearly 32,000 hospitality businesses and is expected to save a typical pub about £1,100 annually, but will not be available to the very largest live music venues. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Donald Trump, Airbus, Heathrow

  Wednesday 22 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Donald Trump must divulge detailed financial information from his many businesses as part of his $10bn defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation, a federal judge ruled during a discovery hearing on Tuesday, according to news reports. The ruling by US magistrate judge Enjoliqué Lett could open a unique window into the hundreds of businesses owned by Trump's family trust. It also highlights a potential drawback for Trump's strategy of bludgeoning critical media with multibillion-dollar lawsuits. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Wealth tax, Paramount, UK pension funds

  Tuesday 21 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Andy Burnham has announced a fresh tax cut to remove VAT from domestic electricity bills from 1 October, a move that will funded from cancelling the Digital ID programme. The prime minister said in a statement: "Westminster has not been working for people for too long, with families struggling with the cost of living. That needs to change. I said I wanted to give people breathing space, and that's what I'm announcing on my second day as prime minister." - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Pay gap, Thames Water, Boohoo

  Monday 20 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The bosses of Britain's largest listed companies received record pay last year, fuelling the widest earnings gap with workers in eight years. Median pay for FTSE 100 chief executives hit £5.06m in the last financial year, according to data released by the High Pay Centre, an 8.6% increase on £4.66m the previous year and the highest level on record. Executive remuneration has been rising steadily since the pandemic, when CEOs took pay and bonus cuts as the lockdowns affected business performance. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Northumbrian Water, Live Nation, Benjamin Netanyahu, digital IDs, poultry sector, Cuba

  Sunday 19 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Northumbrian Water will hand chief executive Heidi Mottram a £1.5m retention payment over the next five years, a sum that sits outside Ofwat's new powers to block bonuses at companies that breach pollution rules, according to The Times. The Hong Kong‑owned supplier, which serves around 2.7m customers across the North East, said Mottram required additional incentives as she was "a highly marketable individual" operating in a sector where pay is tightly regulated and often subject to scrutiny. Mottram, who has led the company since 2010, is expected to have her annual bonus banned under Ofwat's rules. The retention award will be paid in five £300,000 tranches during the current AMP8 investment cycle.

• Friday newspaper round-up: IMF warning, AI threat, Vodafone

  Friday 17 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Britain cannot afford a fresh spending binge, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned Andy Burnham. The Washington-based body said the UK Government should be "very selective in accommodating new demands" for spending and instead focus on reducing the deficit. It cautioned that the UK faces serious "challenges" from high debts, rising interest bills and the increasing costs of healthcare and pensions linked to an ageing population. - Telegraph

• Thursday newspaper round-up: SpaceX, Stonegate, Utmost

  Thursday 16 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Andy Burnham must avoid another "summer of speculation" on tax and spend that would spook British business, the chief executive of the CBI has warned. As Burnham prepares to take up the Labour leadership on Friday, with a new cabinet to be announced on Monday, Rain Newton-Smith urged him to tread carefully. - Guardian

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