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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Evergrande, travel industry, travel chaos

(Sharecast News) - Property giant China Evergrande Group has said that it cannot sell properties and other assets fast enough to service its massive $300bn debts, and that its cashflow was under "tremendous pressure". Only hours after angry investors besieged its Shenzhen headquarters and the company denied it was set for bankruptcy, Evergrande issued a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange saying that a significant drop in sales would continue this month, which was likely to further deteriorate its liquidity and cash flow. - Guardian The travel industry has called for ministers to tear up the UK's Covid traffic light and PCR testing rules as figures reveal their "devastating impact" on overseas flights and holiday bookings in peak season. Bookings for holidays abroad this summer were down 83% on 2019, according to data from the Travel Association (ABTA), with half of travel companies reporting no increase in bookings compared with last summer, despite the vaccination programme. - Guardian

Heathrow will have no rail or Tube services on Boxing Day, leaving passengers facing the prospect of travel chaos on one of the busiest days of the year for the airport. Network Rail and Transport for London (TfL) are planning engineering works, The Telegraph can disclose, meaning passengers will only be able to get to the airport by car or coach. - Telegraph

MPs have accused the insolvency profession of operating like the "Wild West" after an inquiry found evidence of alleged widespread misconduct including "intimidation", "deception" and "misappropriation of assets". The all-party parliamentary group on fair business banking said that it had received "startling" evidence about the profession this year in response to prominent failures and complaints. - The Times

The world's biggest retailer was at the centre of an elaborate hoax yesterday seemingly aimed at manipulating the price of a cryptocurrency. A press release purportedly from Walmart claimed that it would allow customers to pay for purchases online using litecoin from next month. - The Times

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(Sharecast News) - The British digger maker JCB, owned by the billionaire Bamford family, continued to build and supply equipment for the Russian market months after saying it had stopped exports because of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the Guardian can reveal. Russian customs records show that JCB, whose owners are major donors to the Conservative party, continued to make new products available for Russian dealers well after 2 March 2022, when the company publicly stated that it had "voluntarily paused exports" to Russia. - Guardian
Wednesday newspaper round-up: Brexit border outages, Boeing, Stellantis
(Sharecast News) - Lorries carrying perishable food and plants from the EU are being held for up to 20 hours at the UK's busiest Brexit border post as failures with the government's IT systems delay imports entering Britain. Businesses have described the government's new border control checks as a "disaster" after IT outages led to lorries carrying meat, cheese and cut flowers being held for long periods, reducing the shelf life of their goods and prompting retailers to reject some orders. - Guardian
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(Sharecast News) - Tesco is facing criticism from "shocked" charities who say they are struggling to distribute unwanted food to homeless and hungry people after they claim the retailer brought in rules that mean unwanted food can only be collected in the evening. The supermarket group has switched to a new system which asks charities to pick up unwanted food, such as items reaching their best before date, only in the evening when a store is closing rather than the following morning, the charities have claimed. - Guardian
Monday newspaper round-up: BT, ultra-long mortgages, Fever-Tree
(Sharecast News) - BT has said it is increasingly using artificial intelligence to help it detect and neutralise threats from hackers targeting business customers amid repeated attacks on companies. The £10.5bn group is aiming to build up its business protecting customers from online criminals and has patented technology that uses AI to analyse attack data to allow companies to protect their tech infrastructure. British businesses are routinely facing hacking attempts, and some recent high-profile victims have included including the outsourcer Capita, Royal Mail and British Airways. - Guardian

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