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Monday newspaper round-up: JCB, Eurostar, used cars, Devolver Digital

(Sharecast News) - The construction equipment maker JCB has signed a multibillion-pound deal to import and supply hydrogen produced using renewable energy. As the Cop26 climate conference got under way in Glasgow, the company announced a deal with Australia's Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) that will allow it to start selling "green" gas through a specialist division, Ryze Hydrogen, from early next year. - Guardian Almost a quarter of workers are actively planning to change employers in the next few months, a report has claimed, as part of a "great resignation" prompted by a high number of vacancies and burnout caused by the pandemic. A survey of 6,000 workers by the recruitment firm Randstad UK found that 69% of them were feeling confident about moving to a new role in the next few months, with 24% planning a change within three to six months. - Guardian

Eurostar's boss has dismissed the threat of Spain running services through the Channel Tunnel, claiming red tape means it will take years for a rival rail operator to get up and running. However, HS1, which owns the tracks that Eurostar uses, is holding talks with a clutch of foreign train operators to convince them to launch rival international train services to the UK. - Telegraph

The Dacia Sandero has been Britain's cheapest new car for almost a decade, but the chip crisis means buyers can now resell their vehicles for a huge premium just months after driving off the forecourt. Used Sanderos with 10,000 miles on the clock are now selling for almost £11,700 on average, or about £1,900 more than a new model. - Telegraph

The banking industry's new small business compensation scheme has been described as an embarrassment after it concluded only eight cases and just one company received a payout. A parliamentary group that helped to establish the Business Banking Resolution Service, set up to compensate victims of banking scandals, urged Rishi Sunak to change its rules. - Telegraph

The American games publisher behind the lockdown hit Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is to float on the London stock market this week with a valuation of about £700 million. Devolver Digital is aiming to sell £200 million of shares to new investors, with existing backers, including its management team, offloading more than £150 million of stock. - The Times

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(Sharecast News) - Senior Whitehall officials fear Thames Water's financial collapse could trigger a rise in government borrowing costs not seen since the chaos of the Liz Truss mini-budget, the Guardian can reveal. Such is their concern about the impact on wider borrowing costs for the UK, even beyond utilities and infrastructure, that they believe Thames should be renationalised before the general election. Officials in the Treasury and the UK's Debt Management Office fear that, unless the UK's biggest water company is renationalised as soon as possible, "prolonged uncertainty" about its fate could "damage confidence in UK plc at a sensitive time", with elections in the UK and the US later this year. - Guardian
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