Thursday newspaper round-up: Medicine prices, ticket touting, Ryanair

(Sharecast News) - The war in Iran has pushed up the price of widely used medicines in England, including painkillers and hay fever medication, leading pharmacists have warned. Community chemists are charging customers 20-30% more for paracetamol than they did in February, according to the National Pharmacy Association (NPA), and many have run out of certain strengths of aspirin and co-codamol. - Guardian Keir Starmer has been urged to honour his pledge to ban ticket touting, amid fears that the policy will be left out of next month's king's speech, potentially costing fans "hundreds of millions". Music industry groups called on the prime minister to act as fresh evidence showed that professional ticket "traders" had targeted BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend next month, making huge mark-ups through sites such as Viagogo and StubHub. - Guardian

Ryanair is to close its check-in desks 20 minutes early as the EU's new border controls lead to lengthy delays for passengers. The discount airline currently allows passengers to check-in and drop their bags until 40 minutes before their flights. However, from November desks will close an hour before take-off, meaning travellers will have to arrive earlier to avoid missing the window. - Telegraph

Reform UK will scrap "gold-plated" pensions for public sector workers from 2030 if it wins the next election. The Telegraph understands that doctors, teachers, civil servants and other employees joining the public sector will no longer be eligible for so-called final salary pension schemes if Nigel Farage becomes the next prime minister. The sweeping plans would phase out the schemes, which offer a guaranteed income on retirement, and replace them with less generous defined contribution (DC) schemes, where savings are invested and returns depend on performance. - Telegraph

Tesla defied expectations, profiting more and spending less than expected in closely watched results as the company shifts focus from electric vehicles to artificial intelligence (AI). The company, co-founded and headed by the world's richest man, Elon Musk, also announced a "rebound of demand" in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and North America. - Sky News