Tuesday newspaper round-up: Haulage industry, William Hill, Facebook

(Sharecast News) - The haulage industry has urged Boris Johnson to step up "lacklustre" efforts to tackle a shortage of 100,000 HGV drivers, telling him to act now on supply chains or face a Christmas crisis. Bosses of multiple trade bodies and businesses in the trucking and food industries have written to the prime minister saying not enough had been done to resolve the crisis and urging him to intervene personally. - Guardian William Hill has been accused of deploying "cynical" tactics to keep people gambling after the bookmaker launched an in-store cafe selling hot food, with some items cheaper than at McDonald's. At one branch of the bookmaker in the Arndale shopping centre in central Manchester signage advertised a "WH Cafe", selling meal deals, burgers and breakfast. - Guardian

Facebook has warned that its growth will slow down dramatically in the coming months amid iPhone privacy changes, a further blow to the embattled social network as it wrestles with a whistleblower scandal. The social media giant said revenues had grown by 35pc in the third quarter of the year to $29bn (£21bn), a marked slowdown on the 56pc growth in the previous three months. - Telegraph

Policymakers should wait to judge the impact of the end of the furlough scheme before raising interest rates, a ratesetter at the Bank of England said. Silvana Tenreyro, an external member of the monetary policy committee, said that policymakers should assess official data showing how well the labour market coped after the coronavirus job retention scheme closed at the end of September. - The Times

A cryptocurrency company is to buy the Gibraltar Stock Exchange, which will enable investors to buy crypto, debt and equities on the same bourse. Valereum Blockchain, which aims to link fiat currencies - government-issued money not backed by a commodity, such as sterling or US dollar - to cryptocurrencies, has signed an option to buy 80 per cent of the exchange. - The Times