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Press Round-Up Short (Premium)
31 Jan
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Sunday newspaper round-up: Vaccine supplies, Debenhams, The Queen

The UK could help the EU and other nations with coronavirus vaccine supplies even before the domestic vaccination programme has been completed, the international trade secretary, Liz Truss, has said. As ministers sought to smooth relations with Brussels after the EU’s much-criticised and swiftly rescinded decision to impose a vaccine border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, Truss sought to stress the need for international cooperation. - Guardian.

29 Jan
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Friday newspaper round-up: UK economy, Wework, Softbank

Britain’s economy is suffering the most damage since the first wave of Covid-19 as persistently high infection rates and renewed lockdown measures delay the economic recovery from the pandemic, according to a Guardian analysis. Almost a year on since the pandemic spread to Europe, focus is shifting towards how quickly coronavirus vaccines can be deployed, with the UK, for now, among countries leading the pack. Economists said this could increase the likelihood of the British economy outperforming other countries’ later this spring, depending on when lockdown restrictions are lifted.

28 Jan
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Thursday newspaper round-up: UK car production, GameStop, Tesla

UK car production slumped to its lowest level since 1984 last year amid the turmoil caused by the coronavirus pandemic, and Nissan overtook Jaguar Land Rover as the biggest British manufacturer. The output of British car factories dropped by 29% compared with the year before – to about 921,000. It was the first time annual production had fallen below 1m since 2009, during the depths of the financial crisis. - Guardian.

27 Jan
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Wednesday newspaper round-up: HSBC, Tim Martin, Arcadia

Gordon Brown has called for emergency measures to support businesses in the budget after new research from the London School of Economics warned almost 1m UK companies were at risk of failure in the next three months. The former prime minister said the report’s finding that one in seven businesses – employing 2. 5 million people – might be forced to close by the spring should act as a “clarion call” to Rishi Sunak as he prepares his tax and spending measures for 3 March.

26 Jan
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Construction materials, tax reforms, emergency Covid schemes

A growing shortage of key construction materials could delay housebuilding this year as builders fight for fresh supplies against a backdrop of coronavirus-related challenges and price increases. One builders’ merchant said they were being given an August delivery date for roofing materials, such as pitched roof tiles, compared with a usual three-month wait because, even with extra shifts, UK factories were struggling to keep up. - Guardian.

25 Jan
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Monday newspaper round-up: Kickstart scheme, Eurostar, BoE, HSBC

The economic impact of Covid will leave Boris Johnson’s government with a costly “double challenge” to level-up the north and Midlands while protecting the affluent towns and cities in southern England suffering most job losses, according to a report. Warning that the prime minister’s election promise to rebalance Britain’s lopsided economy had been made four times harder by the pandemic, the Centre for Cities said a dual approach to the post-Covid recovery was required.

24 Jan
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Sunday newspaper round-up: Sainsbury, Border crackdown, Restrictions

Hedge funds are ramping up bets that Sainsbury’s will be the next British grocer to be snapped up in a debt-fuelled takeover, after the Issa brothers’ swoop on Asda. Investors have been buoyed by remarks by the boss of Canadian convenience store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard, which is examining takeover targets after a €16bn (£14bn) swoop for French supermarket Carrefour was blocked by politicians in Paris, according to City sources. - Sunday Telegraph.

22 Jan
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Friday newspaper round-up: Next, Cineworld, border chaos

Next has pulled out of the race to acquire Topshop, the jewel in the crown of Sir Philip Green’s collapsed fashion empire Arcadia, after rival bidders trumped its offer. Arcadia, which employed 13,000 people across 500 outlets when it fell into administration last year, is being broken up. Interested parties had been asked to submit bids for the whole company or individual brands at the start of this week. - Guardian.

21 Jan
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Thursday newspaper round-up: Saga, supermarkets, new offices

Saga has become the first UK tour operator to tell cruise and holiday customers that they must be vaccinated to travel with them this summer. The over-50s travel firm, which has reported a surge in bookings since the vaccination programme was announced, is taking reservations on condition that customers are fully inoculated, with two shots where necessary, at least 14 days before departure. Passengers will also need to take a Covid test at the departure terminal.

20 Jan
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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Seafood exporters, freelancers, Haldane

Seafood exporters hit by Brexit red tape and delays will be able to claim up to £100,000 in compensation, the government has said. The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) confirmed that it was putting in place a £23m compensation package for firms exporting fish and shellfish to the EU that can show they have suffered “genuine loss”. - Guardian.

19 Jan
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Cash payments, supermarkets, Covid relief

More than a third of shoppers have been blocked from paying with cash since the start of the Covid crisis, prompting calls for urgent action to protect the millions who rely on the UK’s “critically endangered” cash network. The consumer group Which? said mixed messages about the safety of cash was partly to blame. The Bank of England has since clarified that “any risk from handling cash should be low”, especially when compared with touching shopping baskets, self-checkout screens or products in stores.

18 Jan
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Monday newspaper round-up: Home buyers, Eurostar, Perenna

Thousands of home buyers could be hit with an unexpected tax bill of up to £15,000 each if the stamp duty holiday ends as planned on 31 March, Rightmove has warned. The property website said that with the stamp duty deadline approaching, some sellers who had put their property on the market during the last few weeks were hoping to tempt buyers with a competitive price in an attempt to squeeze in a sale before the holiday ends. - Guardian.

17 Jan
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Sunday newspaper round-up: New Covid strains, Lockdown measures, Google

Britain will be able to vaccinate the entire nation against dangerous new Covid strains within four months after a £158m super-factory opens later this year, The Telegraph can disclose. Dr Matthew Duchars, chief executive of the Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (VMIC), revealed the Oxfordshire facility will be capable of producing 70m doses of an emergency vaccine manufactured entirely on British soil. - Sunday Telegraph.

17 Jan
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Sunday newspaper round-up: New Covid strains, Lockdown measures, Google

Britain will be able to vaccinate the entire nation against dangerous new Covid strains within four months after a £158m super-factory opens later this year, The Telegraph can disclose. Dr Matthew Duchars, chief executive of the Vaccines Manufacturing Innovation Centre (VMIC), revealed the Oxfordshire facility will be capable of producing 70m doses of an emergency vaccine manufactured entirely on British soil. - Sunday Telegraph.

15 Jan
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Friday newspaper round-up: Working from home, UK population, Stamp Duty

The business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, has said companies must redouble efforts to ensure employees work from home unless their work is critical and cannot be done offsite, as the TUC urged the government to step up enforcement. Calls are growing for the government to rethink allowing construction sites to continue as normal and to permit only those whose operations are vital, with several industry employees telling the Guardian that safe practice has become impossible on sites.

14 Jan
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Thursday newspaper round-up: Unilever, high streets, Carillion, property funds

The boss of Unilever, one of the UK’s biggest companies, has said his office workers will never return to their desks five days a week, in the latest indication that coronavirus will transform modern working life. Alan Jope, the chief executive of the consumer goods group, said the company would also encourage all of its employees to receive vaccinations against Covid-19, but would stop short of making jabs mandatory. Employees who opt not to be vaccinated, however, will face mandatory testing.

13 Jan
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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Morrisons, property market, freight costs

People who were trapped in poverty before the pandemic have suffered the most financial damage during the crisis, according to a report warning the government that more support is needed to help hard-pressed families. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) said those who had been struggling to make ends meet before March last year were more likely to work in precarious jobs or sectors of the economy that had been hardest hit by lockdowns. - Guardian.

12 Jan
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: THG boss, truckers, Jaeger

A year ago Matthew Moulding – undoubtedly one of the business names of 2020 – was perhaps best known for founding a controversial VAT-free online sales operation for Tesco, Asda, WH Smith, Dixons and Best Buy. Until 2011, he based certain operations in the Channel Islands to take advantage of European tax rules that exempt imports below £18 from VAT, until the loophole was closed by the then chancellor, George Osborne, in his budget of that year. - Guardian .

11 Jan
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Monday newspaper round-up: Small firms, Post Office, M&G

Small businesses and manufacturers are bracing themselves for a fight for survival this year, according to fresh survey data, as they negotiate the twin threats of Covid-19 and weaker post-Brexit trade with the EU. More than 250,000 small firms expect to fold without further government financial support, according to a quarterly poll by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB). - Guardian.

10 Jan
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Sunday newspaper round-up: Vaccines, Impeachment, Jack Ma

Every adult in the UK will be offered a vaccine by the autumn, Matt Hancock promised today as he claimed the inoculation programme was on track to meet its first target by February 15. The health secretary said figures to be updated daily from tomorrow would show a third of those aged over 80 had already been offered a Covid jab. Mr Hancock claimed take-up of the vaccine had so far been “fantastic” ahead of tomorrow’s data, which is expected to provide the first detailed breakdown of progress so far.