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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Unilever, Scottish Mortgage, Drax

(Sharecast News) - Derby is to be named the new headquarters of Britain's rail network by ministers this week, the Guardian understands. The delayed result of the competition to become the official home of Great British Railways is expected as early as Tuesday, with the Midlands city the frontrunner on a shortlist of six including Birmingham, Crewe, Doncaster, Newcastle and York. - Guardian Magnum has cut the number of ice creams sold in its multipacks despite the price staying the same for shoppers. Unilever, the owner of the brand, has shrunk the size of the packs by a quarter in the latest round of shrinkflation on supermarket shelves.- Telegraph

A US-based developer of small nuclear reactors has signed a deal to sell 24 of its power plants to UK customers, putting pressure on rival makers including Rolls-Royce. Last Energy said the £100m modular units, which are two-thirds the size of a football pitch, can output 20MW of electricity, enough to power 40,000 homes. They will be deployed in 2026 with no government funding required. - Telegraph

Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust has been guilty of governance violations going back months, according to a rebel director at the centre of a board bust-up at the FTSE 100 investment company. Amar Bhide, who has been a main board director since 2020, told The Times there had been "a long series of procedural violations" that were "brushed aside" and that he intended to publish details shortly. - The Times

Drax, the owner of Britain's biggest power station, has warned that the plant could become unviable when its subsidies run out in 2027, threatening Britain's energy security. The FTSE 250 group said that the future of the biomass-fuelled power plant in North Yorkshire from which it took its name, which can supply four million homes, was in doubt unless it was swiftly offered new subsidies to support the development of a £2 billion carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at the site. - The Times

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(Sharecast News) - BT's former chief executive officer, Philip Jansen, is plotting to takeover Rentokil Initial with the help of private equity. As part of the acquisition, Jansen would take over as executive chairman. In particular, the corporate dealmaker and his financial supporters would focus on making Rentokil's 2022 purchase of US peer Terminix work. In a second phase, the company would move on to acquiring other US companies in the same sector. - Sunday Times
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(Sharecast News) - The co-founders of Silicon Valley's most prominent venture capital firm have announced their support for Donald Trump's bid for re-election, and plan to make substantial donations to back him further. Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen, the heads of Andreessen Horowitz, commonly known as A16Z, revealed their plans in a sprawling 90-minute podcast, in which they argued that the future of "American innovation" required a Trump victory. - Guardian
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(Sharecast News) - Local councils will have to adopt mandatory housing targets within months under planning reforms to be unveiled on Wednesday as part of Keir Starmer's first king's speech, which the prime minister says will be focused on economic growth. Starmer will introduce a package of more than 35 bills on Wednesday, the first Labour prime minister to do so in 15 years, as he looks to put the economy at the centre of his first year in office. - Guardian
Tuesday newspaper round-up: Elon Musk, Julian Dunkerton, SSE/TotalEnergies
(Sharecast News) - Elon Musk has said he plans to give $45m a month to a Super Pac focused on electing Donald Trump, starting in July, the Wall Street Journal has reported. The tech billionaire, who endorsed Trump two days ago, has already donated what was described as "a sizable amount" to the America Pac, though the actual amount of the donation will not be made public in election filings until 15 July, Bloomberg reported. - Guardian

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