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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Boeing, Hinkley Point C, IDS

(Sharecast News) - Fake reviews and unavoidable hidden online charges - which cost consumers £2.2bn a year - are to be banned under new laws to force businesses to be more clear with shoppers. Under the new rules, which will become law as part of the digital markets, competition and consumers bill currently progressing through parliament, mandatory fees must be included in the headline price or at the start of the shopping process, including booking fees for cinema and train tickets. - Guardian A nose wheel fell off a Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 passenger jet and rolled away as the plane lined up for takeoff over the weekend from Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson international airport in the US, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). According to a preliminary FAA notice, none of the 184 passengers or six crew members aboard were hurt in the incident. - Guardian

Hinkley Point C will cost as much as £35bn to complete and will come online up to four years later than planned, its French developer has said. EDF on Tuesday said the cost of building Britain's first new nuclear power station in a generation had risen by as much as £10bn after delays to construction and inflation to costs. - Telegraph

Treasury officials advised Rishi Sunak that cutting taxes would have little impact on growing the economy and he should instead focus on boosting immigration. According to leaked Treasury documents presented to Mr Sunak's senior team in late 2022 before he became prime minister, civil servants said personal tax cuts would have a "low impact" on boosting growth despite coming at a "medium fiscal cost". - Telegraph

The chairman of Royal Mail owner International Distributions Services has argued that a six-day delivery service should not be preserved for "nostalgic" reasons ahead of potential reform of the lossmaking mail operator. On Wednesday Ofcom, the regulator, is expected to release the findings of its review of the universal service provided by Royal Mail after calls from the company to ditch Saturday letter deliveries. - The Times

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Friday newspaper round-up: Apple, Daily Mail, OpenAI, Homebase
(Sharecast News) - Apple slightly beat analysts' expectations in its first-quarter earnings for fiscal year 2025 on Thursday. The iPhone-maker's revenue rose by 4%, coming in at $124.30bn, barely above estimates of $124.12bn. Earnings per share were $2.40, just ahead of analysts' expectations of $2.35. Shares rose more than 8% in extended trading after CEO Tim Cook indicated in an earnings call on Thursday that Apple is on the trajectory for revenue growth next quarter. - Guardian
Thursday newspaper round-up: Car production, UK retailers, water bills, KPMG
(Sharecast News) - The architect of a ban on newspaper takeovers by foreign states has demanded that an Abu Dhabi fund be forced to sell The Telegraph by Easter. Baroness Stowell, the Conservative chairman of the Lords communications and digital committee, said the Government should impose an ultimatum on RedBird IMI. It should be backed by the threat of regulatory action, she said, to strip the fund of control of what has been dubbed "the newspaper auction from hell". - Telegraph
Thursday newspaper round-up: Car production, UK retailers, water bills, KPMG
(Sharecast News) - The architect of a ban on newspaper takeovers by foreign states has demanded that an Abu Dhabi fund be forced to sell The Telegraph by Easter. Baroness Stowell, the Conservative chairman of the Lords communications and digital committee, said the Government should impose an ultimatum on RedBird IMI. It should be backed by the threat of regulatory action, she said, to strip the fund of control of what has been dubbed "the newspaper auction from hell". - Telegraph
Wednesday newspaper round-up: Starbucks, JPMorgan, Santander
(Sharecast News) - Rachel Reeves is unveiling plans to create "Europe's Silicon Valley" between Oxford and Cambridge as she stakes the government's success on kickstarting economic growth and putting more pounds in people's pockets. The chancellor will announce a blueprint to improve infrastructure across the region that will add up to £78bn to the UK economy within a decade, according to industry experts, and put it at the forefront of science and technological advances. - Guardian

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