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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Unilever, Scottish Mortgage, Drax

(Sharecast News) - Derby is to be named the new headquarters of Britain's rail network by ministers this week, the Guardian understands. The delayed result of the competition to become the official home of Great British Railways is expected as early as Tuesday, with the Midlands city the frontrunner on a shortlist of six including Birmingham, Crewe, Doncaster, Newcastle and York. - Guardian Magnum has cut the number of ice creams sold in its multipacks despite the price staying the same for shoppers. Unilever, the owner of the brand, has shrunk the size of the packs by a quarter in the latest round of shrinkflation on supermarket shelves.- Telegraph

A US-based developer of small nuclear reactors has signed a deal to sell 24 of its power plants to UK customers, putting pressure on rival makers including Rolls-Royce. Last Energy said the £100m modular units, which are two-thirds the size of a football pitch, can output 20MW of electricity, enough to power 40,000 homes. They will be deployed in 2026 with no government funding required. - Telegraph

Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has been guilty of governance violations going back months, according to a rebel director at the centre of a board bust-up at the FTSE 100 investment company. Amar Bhide, who has been a main board director since 2020, told The Times there had been "a long series of procedural violations" that were "brushed aside" and that he intended to publish details shortly. - The Times

Drax, the owner of Britain's biggest power station, has warned that the plant could become unviable when its subsidies run out in 2027, threatening Britain's energy security. The FTSE 250 group said that the future of the biomass-fuelled power plant in North Yorkshire from which it took its name, which can supply four million homes, was in doubt unless it was swiftly offered new subsidies to support the development of a £2 billion carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at the site. - The Times

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Thursday newspaper round-up: Mike Lynch, smart meters, Very Group
(Sharecast News) - San Francisco federal courthouse on Thursday as a key witness in his own criminal fraud trial, which began in March. US authorities have charged the former software tycoon with 16 counts of wire fraud, securities fraud and conspiracy relating to his company's acquisition deal with Hewlett-Packard in 2011. If convicted, Lynch faces up to 25 years in prison. He has pleaded not guilty. - Guardian
Wednesday newspaper round-up: Anglesey power station, electric cars, Eurostar passengers
(Sharecast News) - Ministers have earmarked north Wales as the site of a large-scale nuclear power plant, which is part of plans to resuscitate Britain's nuclear power ambitions. Wylfa on Anglesey (Ynys Môn) has been named as the preferred site for the UK's third major nuclear power plant in a generation, coming after EDF's Hinkley Point C nuclear plant, which is under construction in Somerset, and its Sizewell C nuclear project planned for Suffolk. - Guardian
Tuesday newspaper round-up: New homes, AI, Mike Ashley
(Sharecast News) - A Labour government would aim to announce the sites for a series of new towns within a year of taking office, with the promise that homes would be built in them by the end of a first term, Angela Rayner is to say in a speech. Giving more detail to a plan first outlined in Keir Starmer's party conference speech in October, Rayner will tell a housing conference that Labour will strongly support private developers who create high-quality and affordable housing. - Guardian
Monday newspaper round-up: Border checks, house prices, apprenticeships
(Sharecast News) - Post-Brexit border checks will cost UK businesses £470m a year, the government's public spending watchdog has said. Plans to bring in border checks on goods coming from the EU faced "significant issues" including critical shortages of inspectors before their introduction last month, the National Audit Office said in a report. - Guardian

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