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Sunday newspaper round-up: Amazon, Boeing, McDonald's...
Multifaceted tech giant Amazon is about to unveil a major investment in one of Britain's biggest wind farms. The company is aiming to power its entire UK operation – from sales warehouses to film studios to cloud computing – using renewable energy by next year. The Mail on Sunday understands that Amazon, which employs about 75,000 people in Britain, plans to later this month announce a deal to buy electricity from the Moray West offshore wind farm. – Mail on Sunday.
Friday newspaper round-up: Electric vehicles, Telegraph, Endeavour Mining
The number of new cars registered in the UK has jumped by nearly 18% but electric vehicle demand is flatlining, prompting the industry to call for a VAT cut to stimulate sales. Annual figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) on Friday show 1. 9m new cars were registered last year, well up on the previous year’s figure of 1. 6m and the highest level since the 2. 3m registrations of 2019. – Guardian.
Thursday newspaper round-up: Electric cars, Vodafone/Three, Joules
Several of the world’s biggest carmakers lobbied the UK government to try to weaken or delay rules to accelerate electric car sales and cut Britain’s carbon emissions. Toyota, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Nissan were among the companies to ask for delays in enforcement of the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate that obliges them to sell increasing proportions of electric cars or face heavy fines, according to documents seen by the Guardian. – Guardian.
Wednesday newspaper round-up: Thames Water, BYD, BT Group
The amount of electricity generated by the UK’s gas and coal power plants fell by 20% last year, with consumption of fossil fuels at its lowest level since 1957. Not since Harold Macmillan was the UK prime minister and the Beatles’ John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time has the UK used less coal and gas. – Guardian .
Tuesday newspaper round-up: Interest rates, NHS strikes, rental crisis, Ford, shop prices
The Bank of England is poised to cut interest rates at least twice in 2024, economists polled by The Times have said, as inflation slides to within touching distance of the official 2 per cent target and as economic growth stalls. A majority of the 41 economists who took part in The Times’s seventh annual economists’ survey said that the Bank of England would partly reverse its aggressive tightening of monetary policy amid downtrodden economic growth and weaker price pressures.