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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Greensill, DMGT, civil servants, David Lloyd

(Sharecast News) - David Cameron made about $10m (£7m) from Greensill Capital before the finance firm he lobbied on behalf of collapsed, according to the BBC. Panorama said it had obtained documents showing the former prime minister received the sum from cashing in shares he held in the company worth $4.5m (about £3.3m) in 2019, in addition to an annual salary of $1m (£720,000). - Guardian Lord Rothermere has agreed an extension until the end of September to the deadline to make an £810m bid to take the parent company of the Daily Mail private. The Rothermere family, which controls a 30% stake in Daily Mail and General Trust, originally had until 9 August to make a so-called "put up or shut up" (PUSU) offer for the business, in a move that would end its 90-year run as a publicly listed company on the London Stock Exchange. - Guardian

Civil servants who refuse to return to the office could have their pay cut under plans being considered by some government departments. Mandarins face being stripped of "London weighting" - a salary top-up worth £4,000 to offset the high costs of living in the capital - if they resist a partial return to the workplace. - Telegraph

Australia's unravelling "zero Covid" strategy will cost its economy more than £500m every week of lockdown as analysts warn restrictions in some of its most populous states could last until October. Forecasters warned that renewed lockdowns and the glacial pace of its vaccination programme will trigger a sharp drop in GDP in the third quarter as Delta cases threaten to explode. - Telegraph

One of Britain's biggest leisure club operators has bounced back to pre-pandemic membership levels seven months earlier than its forecasts. David Lloyd Leisure said the number of members had recovered to 660,000, from 574,000 at the lowest point, on the back of pent-up demand and the suburban locations of its clubs. - The Times

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(Sharecast News) - The number of UK bank branches that have shut their doors for good over the last nine years will pass 6,000 on Friday, and by the end of the year the pace of closures may leave 33 parliamentary constituencies - including two in London - without a single branch. The tally is being published by the consumer group Which? as it seeks to make the "avalanche" of closures and the "disastrous" impact they can have on local communities an election battleground. - Guardian
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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

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