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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Drax, banking hubs, TalkTalk, JPMorgan

(Sharecast News) - Dressed in overalls with "leave it in the ground" scrawled on their backs, climate protesters shovelled coal over the side of a goods train bound for the Drax power station in 2008. It is now 14 years on from the train "hijack" and government officials are considering their own raid on the North Yorkshire power station - this time on the company's finances. - Guardian More shared "banking hubs" are to be rolled out across the UK to help communities hit by branch and ATM closures to get continued access to cash. A banking hub is a shared service that operates in a similar way to a standard branch, with a counter service run by Post Office staff where customers of almost any bank can withdraw and deposit cash, make bill payments and carry out regular transactions. - Guardian

The budget broadband provider TalkTalk has been warned by its auditor that presenting its accounts on a going concern basis is increasingly risky as it comes under pressure from its £1.1bn debt pile. In the company's annual report, which has not been published on its website or filed with Companies House but has been made available on request to bond investors and seen by The Telegraph, auditors from Deloitte highlight a series of unusual accounting practices. - Telegraph

JP Morgan has drawn up plans to shift work from offices in Germany into the City of London as finance companies brace for potential blackouts in the EU's biggest economy. The Wall Street bank is preparing a raft of emergency measures so that it can continue trading if there are power outages this winter following Vladimir Putin's decision to cut off gas supplies from Russia. - Telegraph

The bank criticised by a former minister for its allegedly poor due diligence work on pandemic loan schemes suffered a rate of suspected fraud that was two and a half times the sector's average, new figures suggest. Starling, the digital bank led by Anne Boden, identified 5.8 per cent of loans it had provided under the bounce back loan scheme as suspected fraud. This was higher than the average across lenders of 2.3 per cent. - The Times

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Thursday newspaper round-up: Asda, Post Office, M&S, Frasers Group
(Sharecast News) - The owners of Asda are facing mounting pressure after figures showed the struggling supermarket chain's share of the grocery market reached a "new nadir" as sales fell sharply this summer. The grocer's sales fell 6.4% in the three months to 10 August, equivalent to more than £2bn in annual lost revenues, as it became the only member of the traditional "big four" supermarkets to see sales shrink, according to analysts at NIQ. - Guardian
Wednesday newspaper round-up: Waitrose, McDonald's, Crown Agents
(Sharecast News) - Waitrose is planning to open 100 convenience stores over the next five years as part of a £1bn-plus investment in new outlets and shop refurbishments. The upmarket grocery chain is planning to unveil a revamped outlet in Finchley Road, north London, on Wednesday. This will kick off a new phase of expansion with its first new store in six years in Hampton Hill, west London, by the end of this year. - Guardian
Tuesday newspaper round-up: Missing yacht, City Airport, energy bills
(Sharecast News) - Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer is among those missing after a yacht carrying UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch sank off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm, an Italian official has said. Salvatore Cocina, head of the civil protection agency in Sicily, said Bloomer and Chris Morvillo, a lawyer at Clifford Chance, were among the six people missing. Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah, were also unaccounted for as of late Monday. - Guardian
Monday newspaper round-up: Ted Baker, banks, Boohoo
(Sharecast News) - Fashion brand Ted Baker's remaining 31 stores in the UK are to close this week, putting more than 500 jobs at risk. Started as a men's clothing label in Glasgow in 1988 by entrepreneur Ray Kelvin and becoming known for its quirky advertising and floral prints, Ted Baker's UK arm entered administration in March after racking up losses. - Guardian

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