• 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

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Heating oil customers, benefit claimants, SoftBank chief

  Wednesday 15 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Heating oil customers whose deliveries were cancelled when the war in the Middle East caused a price surge are to receive compensation of up to £350 each following an investigation by the UK competition watchdog. As the crisis unfolded, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it was investigating heating oil suppliers after complaints that existing orders were being scrapped, with customers offered new deliveries at a significantly higher price. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: North Sea oil, Anthropic, EV owners

  Tuesday 14 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The US government has already paid back tens of billions of dollars in tariffs it collected before the supreme court ruled them illegal, according to budget figures released on Monday. Tariffs - taxes on imported goods - have been a key part of president Donald Trump's game economic plan since he took office again last year. But in February, the supreme court shut down a big chunk of the extra tariffs Trump ordered, forcing the government to return money to the companies that had paid them. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Pub sector, Eurostar, war bonds

  Monday 13 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The beleaguered pub sector is getting a boost from England's World Cup run, with some landlords reporting roaring sales as anticipation builds for a bumper night on Wednesday for the semi-final clash with Argentina. Lisa Mayall, the manager of the British Oak in Kingswinford near Dudley in the West Midlands, was jubilant after England's 2-1 win against Norway on Saturday night and brisk takings at the pub's till. She expects hundreds more customers for the team's next game at 8pm BST. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: Burnham, Wahaca, digital services tax, Asda, carbon emissions, Iran

  Sunday 12 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Leading British tech entrepreneurs, including Multiverse chief executive Euan Blair, have urged Andy Burnham not to risk stifling enterprise by imposing higher taxes, according to The Times. A coalition of prominent founders has written to the prime minister‑in‑waiting, warning that the next government has only a narrow window to build on recent momentum and cautioning against policies that could deter company creation and investment. The group includes Blair, as well as the founders of three British unicorns: Alex Kendall of driverless‑car technology firm Wayve, Victor Riparbelli of AI video company Synthesia, and Vishal Marria of data‑analytics specialist Quantexa.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Nigel Farage, diesel prices, Kraken Technology

  Friday 10 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Chancellor Rachel Reeves is to announce a new City "skills compact" that will commit firms such as Barclays and Lloyds to retraining thousands of financial sector workers for the AI revolution. The financial services skills compact will be launched on Tuesday, during what is likely to be Reeves's final Mansion House speech to City bosses before Andy Burnham's expected takeover of No 10. The government-backed initiative will commit employers to improving workers' skills and helping them "keep pace" with significant technological changes that have prompted fears of mass redundancies. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: UK vets, Sizewell B, Terry Smith

  Thursday 09 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - UK vets may have to have a licence and cap prescriptions for pet medicine at £21 under plans being considered by the government. Ministers are also considering establishing a regulator for the veterinary sector, including inspections, a mandatory licensing system and published compliance reports to improve accountability and choice. Every vet practice could need an official operating licence - similar to GP surgeries and care homes - under proposals in a white paper. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Regional income divide, John Lewis, mortgages

  Wednesday 08 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Britain's deep regional income divide has barely changed in 30 years despite the promises of successive governments to narrow the gap, according to a report showing the challenge for Andy Burnham. As the prime minister-in-waiting prepares for government, the Resolution Foundation said almost no progress had been made since 1997 to tackle stark divisions in household income, before housing costs are taken into account, between the richest and poorest parts of the country. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Gambling customers, student loan repayments, Russian bankruptcies

  Tuesday 07 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The Scottish government is about to consider a sweeping moratorium on building new datacentres, putting a key plank of the UK's AI strategy at risk. Last Sunday the Scottish National party (SNP)'s national council passed a motion to freeze all new datacentres in Scotland. That motion has been sent to the Scottish government to consider. It could apply to all datacentre projects that have not yet received planning permission - although its exact implementation is up to the Scottish government to decide. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Affordable housing, mobile coverage, unemployment

  Monday 06 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Half of all affordable housing supply in rural England could be under threat under plans being considered by ministers to relax regulations for private housing developers, according to analysis. The government has proposed ending affordable housing quotas - known as section 106 agreements - for new developments of between 10 and 49 houses in an effort to jumpstart sluggish housebuilding rates. Ministers are due to make a final decision within weeks on whether developers should be allowed to make cash payments to local authorities instead. - Guardian

• Newspaper round-up: Ukraine strikes, Next, Barratt Redrow, EU EES, Elon Musk, OpenAI, Neil Kinnock, state pension

  Sunday 05 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Ukraine launched a fresh long‑range strike on Russian energy infrastructure early on Saturday, hitting an oil terminal outside St Petersburg, according to The Telegraph. Dozens of drones targeted Russia's second‑largest city overnight, with one impacting the terminal and another crashing within the grounds of Peterhof, the former imperial residence. St Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov said on social media that an oil facility in the city's Kirovsky district had been struck, adding that Russian air defences shot down 72 drones.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Ineos, EG Group, Hill Group

  Friday 03 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The boss of Currys has said supplies of air conditioning and fans are "tight" ahead of another UK heatwave, expected next week, after a boom in sales sent retailers scrambling to source new stock. Alex Baldock, chief executive of the electrical goods retailer, said cooling kit had been "flying off the shelves" during June's record heat in England. Sales of fans were up nearly 3,000% over the most recent heatwave weekend compared with a week earlier, while air conditioning sales increased 330%. - Guardian

• Thursday newspaper round-up: EU car industry, Getty Images-Shutterstock, United Utilities

  Thursday 02 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The EU's car industry has called for the UK to be fully included in new "made in Europe" rules that threaten to shut out British manufacturers from their biggest export market. The European Automobile Manufacturers Association (Acea) on Wednesday urged Brussels to give the UK, Turkey and Morocco "justified, targeted exemptions" to the rules, which will require cars and parts to be made within the EU to qualify for subsidies or public procurement. - Guardian

• Wednesday newspaper round-up: Fuel poverty, Asda, BoE

  Wednesday 01 Jul 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Millions of households in Great Britain will be pushed into fuel poverty after months of volatility on the global gas markets as energy bills rise by more than £220 a year under the government's price cap from Wednesday. As the cap on gas and electricity rates rises to the equivalent of £1,862 a year, the number of households forced to spend more than 10% of their income on energy bills will increase to 13.5m from almost 11.3m in April, according to fuel poverty campaigners. - Guardian

• Tuesday newspaper round-up: Brompton, TG Jones, housebuilders

  Tuesday 30 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - The French sports gear retailer Decathlon and a Chinese investment group that was an early backer of Labubu soft toys have bought stakes in the British folding bike maker Brompton, as its boss said the cycling market was recovering from a slump in sales. Decathlon has acquired a 10% stake in the manufacturer while BA Capital has bought 5% in a deal understood to collectively be worth about £18m. - Guardian

• Monday newspaper round-up: Chipmakers, HS2, Revolut

  Monday 29 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Shares in chipmakers have surged in the first half of this year as investors piled into companies that make the hardware underpinning the AI boom, according to analysis. Investors have driven up the value of semiconductor and memory chip manufacturers, whose profits have soared during 2026, at the expense of some large software companies, which have fallen out of favour this year. - Guardian

• Sunday newspaper round-up: London homes, ITV, United Utilities, Iran, Ukraine, Ocado, digital tax

  Sunday 28 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - Around one third of new homes in London failed to sell to private buyers last year, underlining the scale of the housebuilding challenge facing incoming mayor Andy Burnham, according to the Telegraph. CBRE analysis of Molior data showed developers abandoned attempts to sell 34% of new units in 2026 after failing to find buyers, up from 25% in 2025. Instead of going to private purchasers, the homes were offloaded to investment funds or housing associations. The figures highlight mounting strain in London's housing market, where weak sales are making new development increasingly unviable. The slowdown also casts fresh doubt on Labour's pledge to deliver 1.5m homes by 2029.

• Friday newspaper round-up: Crown estate, UK food and drink exports, Ocado

  Friday 26 Jun 2026

  (Sharecast News) - King Charles's property management company has made more than £1bn for the third consecutive year thanks to the boom in offshore windfarms paid for through energy bills. The crown estate, the royals' portfolio of land and property, reported £1.2bn in profit for the last financial year, almost three times the amount it made three years ago. Two-thirds came from the offshore wind industry. - Guardian

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