• Monday newspaper round-up: Train drivers, bank chairs, Ocado, cash ISAs

  Monday 09 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Labour will introduce legislation to lower the minimum age for train drivers to 18 in the House of Commons this week, as figures show fewer than 3% of drivers on Great Britain's railways are under 30. The government is pressing ahead with its proposals for teenage recruits, lowering the minimum age from 20, in a move that ministers hope will stave off a potential shortage of thousands of drivers. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Water executive bonuses, British Steel, Gorton and Denton by‑election, Vladimir Alexeyev shooting, Tata Steel, M&S

  Sunday 08 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The government will move to shut down loopholes that have allowed executives at struggling water companies to keep collecting hefty payouts despite a bonus ban introduced last year, according to reporting in the Guardian.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Amazon, Barclays, Epstein

  Friday 06 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Amazon announced plans to spend $200bn on artificial intelligence and robotics this year, the latest tech giant to vow fresh enormous investments in the artificial intelligence arms race. The news of the investment comes one day after the Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced it was cutting approximately a third of employees. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: Bond markets, Nike, ElevenLabs

  Thursday 05 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - A government minister has defended long delays to a military spending plan that are also stalling the UK's next-generation Tempest fighter jet programme, but refused to say when it will be complete. The defence investment plan (DIP), originally expected last autumn, has faced repeated postponements amid warnings that the military faces a £28bn funding gap over the next four years. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Migration, women in tech, mini-nukes

  Wednesday 04 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The UK economy would be 3.6% smaller by 2040 if net migration fell to zero, forcing the government to raise taxes to combat a much bigger budget deficit, a thinktank has predicted. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) said falling birthrates in the UK and a sharp decrease in net migration last year had led it to consider what would happen if this trend continued to the end of the decade. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Riverford, US investment, Publicis

  Tuesday 03 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Consumers searching for healthy food from trusted sources have fuelled the UK organic market's biggest boom in two decades, according to vegetable box seller Riverford. The delivery business, which sells meat, cheese, cookbooks and recipe boxes alongside vegetables, recorded a 6% increase in sales to £117m in the year to May 2025, as the UK organic food and drink market grew by almost 9% in that year, according to new figures from the Soil Association. The strong growth, significantly outpacing the wider food market, helped the employee-owned business give a £1.1m bonus to workers. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Riverford, US investment, Publicis

  Tuesday 03 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Consumers searching for healthy food from trusted sources have fuelled the UK organic market's biggest boom in two decades, according to vegetable box seller Riverford. The delivery business, which sells meat, cheese, cookbooks and recipe boxes alongside vegetables, recorded a 6% increase in sales to £117m in the year to May 2025, as the UK organic food and drink market grew by almost 9% in that year, according to new figures from the Soil Association. The strong growth, significantly outpacing the wider food market, helped the employee-owned business give a £1.1m bonus to workers. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Riverford, US investment, Publicis

  Tuesday 03 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Consumers searching for healthy food from trusted sources have fuelled the UK organic market's biggest boom in two decades, according to vegetable box seller Riverford. The delivery business, which sells meat, cheese, cookbooks and recipe boxes alongside vegetables, recorded a 6% increase in sales to £117m in the year to May 2025, as the UK organic food and drink market grew by almost 9% in that year, according to new figures from the Soil Association. The strong growth, significantly outpacing the wider food market, helped the employee-owned business give a £1.1m bonus to workers. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Benefits, tax rises, NMC Health, Thames Water

  Monday 02 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Struggling hotels, restaurants and nightclubs are calling for more financial help with business rates after it emerged that Heathrow is among the biggest beneficiaries of a multibillion-pound package of state support. The UK's biggest airport is in line for a discount of nearly £900m on its rates bill over the next three years. That is a fifth of the total £4.3bn "transitional relief" fund announced by the chancellor in the budget for all businesses facing big bill increases. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Heathrow wins £900m relief, Artemis slams IPF takeover, Trump says Iran in 'serious talks', Zelensky expects delays to discussions, Starmer urges former Duke of York to testify in US, Iran faces inquiry demands

  Sunday 01 Feb 2026

  (Sharecast News) - UK prime minister Keir Starmer has said Andrew Mountbatten‑Windsor should give evidence to the US Congress regarding his links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to The Guardian.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Trump, Apple, Asda, Quiz, Amazon

  Friday 30 Jan 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday laying the groundwork to slap tariffs on goods from countries that provide oil to Cuba, the White House said. The order, which ratchets up Trump's pressure to topple the Communist government, declares a national emergency and establishes a process for the US secretaries of state and commerce to assess tariffs against countries that sell or otherwise provide oil to the island nation. The White House has yet to specify tariff rates for violating its new policy of blocking Cuba from buying oil. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: The Original Factory Shop, water bills, CityFibre

  Thursday 29 Jan 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The Original Factory Shop homeware chain has called in administrators, putting 1,200 jobs at risk, putting the decision partly down to higher costs from government policies. Administrators from Interpath have been appointed at the 137-store discount retailer, which was bought by the private equity firm Modella Capital less than a year ago. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Royal Mail, Meta, Quiz, Darktrace

  Wednesday 28 Jan 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Royal Mail has been criticised for offering an "unacceptable" performance over the crucial Christmas period after it failed to deliver letters and cards on time to about 16 million people, Citizens Advice found. The consumer watchdog, which carried out research into Christmas deliveries, said that figure was 50% higher than in 2024, and the highest level over the festive period in five years, excluding when Royal Mail was hit by strike action in the run-up to Christmas four years ago. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Trump tariffs, TikTok, Barbour family

  Tuesday 27 Jan 2026

  (Sharecast News) - A new cargo and passenger ferry service directly linking Scotland and France could launch later this year as the port of Dunkirk embarks on a €40bn (£35bn) regeneration programme it claims will mirror the second world war resilience for which it is famed. The plans could include a new service between Rosyth in Fife and Dunkirk, eight years after the last freight ferries linked Scotland to mainland Europe, and 16 years after passenger services stopped. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Wind power, JLR, business rates, Heathrow

  Monday 26 Jan 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The UK and nine other European countries have agreed to build an offshore wind power grid in the North Sea in a landmark pact to turn the ageing oil basin into a "clean energy reservoir". The countries will build windfarms at sea that directly connect to multiple nations through high-voltage subsea cables, under plans that are expected to provide 100GW of offshore wind power, or enough electricity capacity to power 143m homes. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Andy Burnham, Wes Streeting, Chagos Islands, Canada tariffs, China-Ireland diplomacy, Minneapolis shooting

  Sunday 25 Jan 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Andy Burnham signalled his intention to return to Westminster on Saturday, announcing plans to seek Labour's nomination for the Gorton & Denton by‑election, according to the Sunday Times.

• Friday newspaper round-up: JPMorgan Chase, Apple, Nigel Farage

  Friday 23 Jan 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Donald Trump has sued JPMorgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, for at least $5bn after accusing America's largest bank of "debanking" him. The US president alleged that the bank stopped offering him banking services in the wake of the Capitol riot on January 6. Earlier this month, he claimed it had "incorrectly and inappropriately" discriminated against him. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: AI, BBC, KPMG

  Thursday 22 Jan 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Jamie Dimon, the boss of JP Morgan, has said artificial intelligence "may go too fast for society" and cause "civil unrest" unless governments and business support displaced workers. While advances in AI will have huge benefits, from increasing productivity to curing diseases, the technology may need to be phased in to "save society", he said. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Super-rich taxes, fossil fuel companies, farmers

  Wednesday 21 Jan 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires from 24 countries are calling on global leaders to increase taxes on the super-rich, amid growing concern that the wealthiest in society are buying political influence. An open letter, released to coincide with the World Economic Forum in Davos, calls on global leaders attending this week's conference to close the widening gap between the super-rich and everyone else. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: City & Guilds, water companies, home ownership

  Tuesday 20 Jan 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The new owners of the vocational training body City & Guilds appear to have more than tripled the pay of its top six executives right at the moment the company is cutting £22m of costs and shrinking its UK workforce. The large increases to salary and bonuses have emerged during a scandal over the sale of the qualification awards business by its former owner, the UK charity City & Guilds London Institute (CGLI), to the international certification company PeopleCert. - Guardian

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