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Wednesday newspaper round-up: EY, Tesla, Jes Staley

(Sharecast News) - EY has scrapped plans for a radical breakup of its global operations after internal disputes over the potential structure of the new businesses. The company started laying the groundwork for separating its audit and advisory businesses - under the codename Project Everest - last year, as the big four accounting firms faced mounting criticism about conflicts of interest between the two divisions. - Guardian Ministers have been urged to ramp up spending on public transport in England and Wales to tackle the climate emergency, and to unlock a £50bn a year boost to the economy, in a report by the Trades Union Congress (TUC). The report released by the TUC, a federation representing 48 unions, argues for a radical increase in investment - calling for £18bn more a year to be spent on operating trains, trams and buses to help cut car use by 20%, improve quality of life and boost the UK economy. - Guardian

Tesla is in advanced talks to snap up part of a vast warehouse site in Milton Keynes as Elon Musk seeks to accelerate sales of its electric cars in Britain. The electric vehicle (EV) maker is preparing to sign a lease for a newly built logistics space in the city, property website React News reported. - Telegraph

The troubled investment group behind a failed bid for Audioboom, the podcast company, has launched legal proceedings against Robert Bonnier over a previously undisclosed loan it provided to the financier. All Active Asset Capital said it was suing Bonnier, one of its key associates, for his alleged failure to repay £1.3 million related to a "short-term secured loan" it had provided in March last year. - The Times

A judge in the United States has rejected a request by Jes Staley, the former JP Morgan executive, to sever the bank's lawsuit accusing him of concealing what he knew about Jeffrey Epstein, the American sex offender and financier, from two related legal cases against the bank. The decision in New York is a defeat for Staley, who had said the trial for all three cases scheduled for October 23 left him too little time to defend himself against the bank's "slanderous" accusations. - The Times

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(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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