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THE SUNDAY TIMES
The Front Page
* Milliband to save new Labour
The Special Report
* Virgin desire to be taken global (Sir Richard Branson launches a £4-billion world expansion)
The Agenda Column
* Pay needn’t be a big deal if sense prevails - Pay is back as a big issue and will remain so for some time. In a challenging market, like the one we are entering, boardroom compensation will be an emotive issue
* Time spread wings - Memo to Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of easyJet: ignore the doubters, there is a good deal to be done. High oil prices have torpedoed the company’s share price, and Haji-Ioannou should think about taking it private.
* Unhealthy outlook - The healthcare sector is notoriously cyclical and we are on the cusp of another downturn. Local authorities are reining in budgets and costs are going up.
The Economic Outlook Column
* Pigs might fly from €uroland
The Business Focus Page
* A struggling Labour Government, high oil prices and climbing inflation. Are we bouncing back to the ... 70’s
The Andrew Davidson Interview
* J Darius Bikoff
Feature
* Media: Set us free to fight Google
Feature
* Private jet sales soar sky-high
Feature
* Family firm keeps clients sweet through the generations (Swizzels Matlow, makers of Love Hearts)
Feature
* Scott Lloyd (son of David) brings fitness to Next Generation
Feature
* Smoking out cash with a vengeance – Emergency rights issues by UK firms this quarter will raise the most money since records began
The Inside the City Column
* Only a break-up can release Qinetiq energy - Serco, or perhaps G4S, is a natural home for its long-term support contracts, which include a place in the consortium that will train MoD staff for the next 30-years. And perhaps Ultra Electronics would have better luck with Qinetiq’s technology operations
* Yell – It’s not yet time for heads to roll. An injection of fresh talent at the top, however, or a clearer succession path, cannot come soon enough. And the next time the economy decelerates a notch, it may take Yell’s board longer than 30-seconds to discuss whether it needs to resort to a rights issue
The Director’s Deals Column (Money Section)
* Xstrata chief digs up £7-million to extract shares
* Business Post chief adds to his stake with a purchase of 20,665 shares at 305p, he now holds 103,851. Two other director’s also add to their holdings
Feature in Money Section
* Ports offer safe havens in the storm
Further news
* Inspired Gaming bets on a sale
* 3 offers for ailing Vanco
* Kwik-Fit can’t fix flat profits
* Lufthansa hints on Bmi purchase
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
The Front Page
* Record £13-billion in City bonuses
Feature
* Slick investors strike riches as they cash in on peak oil - Hedge funds are riding high on record oil prices and now retail investors are joining them
The City Editor’s Comment Column
* Credit crisis was crude compared with this – Oil price surge
* MK One tip of the iceberg - Last week it was the turn of MK One, a small but well-known clothing chain, to fall into the administrators' clutches. What makes its decline notable is that until last month, MK One was owned by Baugur, the Icelandic investment group which in recent years has cut its way through great swathes of the British retail industry.
* Don’t bet against Sorrell - Few bosses in international business enjoy the thrill of the chase like Sir Martin Sorrell. During his 22-years at the helm of WPP, which he has crafted into the world's second-largest provider of marketing services by revenues, he has made well over 400 acquisitions. The market research firm Taylor Nelson Sofres is Sorrell's latest quarry. WPP wants to gatecrash the merger of TNS and GfK, a German rival, by buying TNS. So far, the target has rejected his approaches, saying it remains committed to the original deal.
* Furse will take stock – It would not be surprising to see another significant transaction emerging from Furse's Paternoster Square boardroom in the next 18-months. Whatever she decides to do, she has been too hardy a boss to underestimate now.
The Economic Agenda Column
* One in 20 Chinese owns a car. So do you still believe in cheap oil?
Feature
* The £50-billion capital injection - The amount of cash set to be raised through rights issues in Europe over the next few months marks a new trend.
* HBOS and RBS investors uneasy over whether to play the rights issue game
Profile Feature
* Ynon Kreiz of Endemol
Feature
* Vultures bide their time - Investors are waiting for the opportunity to swoop on the depressed London commercial property market, but not until values fall further still
The Real Business Column
* John Sach has it covered for Walker Greenbank
The Sunday Questor Column
* Wolseley – Avoid
* SSL International – Buy
* TGE Marine – Buy
* Bank of Ireland – Avoid
Feature
* Is greyhound racing going to the dogs? - The sale of London's loss-making Walthamstow greyhound track has added to fears about the sport's future in Britain
The Money Section
* Can Emerging Markets spark up your portfolio?
Further news
* Rival chains check out Somerfield stores
* BAA calls in advisers to ease pressure for break-up
* Bahrain fund, Arcapita, on track for Freighliner
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
The Front Page
* Reality check ... The election is 2 long years away - Unsaveable? (Gordon Brown) ... Unstoppable? (David Cameron).
The Lead Story of the Business Section
* £45-billion schools upgrade caned by the banks - Government agency looks to change the financing of projects as massive construction programme falls foul of the credit crisis
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* Seven bidders tipped to join RBS auction
Feature
* Can this venture really go like clockwork? (founders of Bremont tells all)
Feature
* The well hasn’t run dry: deal makers set sail for North Sea – Around 160 companies are hunting down what is left, with the remaining reserves in deep water or riskier areas
The Comment Pages
* $130-a-barrel and rising: it’s a Seventies-style shock, but this time we won’t be held to ransom
* The World Bank at last admits: one size won’t fit all
The Margareta Pegano Business Editor’s Column
* Eco-warriors couldn’t do it, but the black stuff might consign the car to history – The combustion engine won’t be economic if people can’t afford the petrol
* Check it out: Burberry is dancing round the handbags – We will see this week if Burberry has finally thrown off its “chav” image, with full-year figures out on Wednesday
* Nuclear power just like Mamma makes – or what the Italians can teach us
The Analysis Pages
* Two years late, schools project is still in detention
Interview
* Marion King, chief executive of VocaLink
Further news
* Sir Richard Branson asks Network Rail to ease up on West Coast overhaul
THE OBSERVER
Editors Pick
* IEA probes fears that oil will run out. Inquiry will examine 'narrow margin' in 2012
Further news
* HSBC investors to revolt on pay and strategy
* Six suitors line up in race for RBS's insurance business
* Fuel costs kill off a US airline every week
MAIL ON SUNDAY
The Lead Story of the Financial Mail
* Huge security alert over BT broadband - Customers not told that wi-fi network is open to attack
Feature
* The King of Steptoe Castle accused over his £100-million scrapyard fortune (Andre Serruys)
Interview
* Richard Alderman, SFO chief
The Midas Column
* Get a good grip on your rights (Rights issues and RBS, HBOS, Johnston Press, Bradford & Bingley and Imperial Tobacco)
The Lisa Buckingham Column
* M&S bosses must keep in step to fill big man’s shoes
Feature
* Banks put on ‘at risk’ accounts probe
The Taking Stock Column
* Oil surge might signal a shift in investor tactics
Fund Focus
* Axa Framlington Equity Income
Further news
* DIY rivals turn up the heat - B&Q and Homebase declare war in an attempt to entice customers out this Bank Holiday weekend
* BBC to shy away from Woolworth’s sell-off
SUNDAY EXPRESS
The Lead Story of the Financial Express
* Max Mosley engulfed in new scandal
Further news
* Clive Cowdery seeks US cash venture
COMMENT AND BID NEWS
From The Sunday Times
* Adair Turner The former CBI director-general is in pole position to be named as the new chairman of the Financial Services Authority
* The celebrity jewellery designer Theo Fennell has been locked in a four-month war of words with directors at the company he founded 26-years ago. He will now have to relinquish his name from all future designs that are privately commissioned for his long list of celebrity followers, who include Victoria and David Beckham, Sir Elton John, Liz Hurley and Kate Beckinsale.
* Theo Fennell is planning to launch a private practice to develop his fascination for “unusual pieces”, but the products Fennell, who owns a 15% stake in Theo Fennell, which is quoted on AIM, is famed for highly creative yet costly designs such as silver Marmite jar lids, jewelled monopoly sets and even a £50,000 ebony-and-diamond domino game.
* Tate & Lyle to unload pensions in possible £870-million sale of pension scheme
* Anheuser-Busch may fend off an unsolicited bid from InBev by snapping up 50% of Mexicam brewer Grupo Modelo, maker of Corona
* OPG Power Ventures, of India, will begin trading on AIM this week, with a value of £172-million. The lead broker is Cenkos
* British and American unions join up against globalisation
* Lakshmi Mittal, Britain’s richest man, has advanced an emergency €30-million (£24-million) loan to a cash-strapped Bulgarian steel plant controlled by his brother Pramod.
* Scottish Widows faces £1-billion claim
* Vodafone cool on new deal in Africa
From The Sunday Telegraph
* InBev disposals brewing ahead of Bud bid
* HSBC faces revolt over executive pay
* Wolseley constructs bid defence after share collapse
* India takeover rings up £13-billion record profit at Vodafone
* Jay Hambro's mining company Aricom has appointed bankers Morgan Stanley to raise more than $1-billion (£500-million) for a big expansion of its iron ore projects in Russia.
* Ailing Esporta gets in shape for break-up offers
* Cable & Wireless close to deal to dispose of £2-billion pension fund
* Private equity firms to rejoin Direct Line talks
* Vodafone roams far and wide to ring up growth
From The Independent on Sunday
* Towry Law plans to go public this year as it defies the downturn
* Property giants, British Land and Land Securities, in running for Wilson Bowden
* Housebuilders Crest Nicholson and Barratt Developments are vying for £1.5-billion Silvertown Quays regeneration project
* HSBC under new attack over US losses
* Metalloinvest to raise £3.5-billion in London float
From The Mail on Sunday
* BA risks revolt over refusal to pay dividends
* Barclays to unveil cash-raising deal
* Vodafone might for Tiscali
* Fear of vote block over TNS merger
* Whitbread to face pubs spin-off call
From The Sunday Express
* Standard Life launches hunt for new boss
* Three stay in race for Trillium, believed to be Telereal, Charterhouse and the property arm of Goldman Sachs
* HSBC rebel shareholder Knight Vinke, demands US loans sell-off
* BA invests £100-million in First Class
OTHER NEWS THAT COULD AFFECT SHARE PRICES
Credit crisis fallout
* Record £13-billion in City bonuses
Oil and Commodities
* Hedge funds are riding high on record oil prices and now retail investors are joining them
News from Home
* More than 30,000 hospital beds have been lost since Labour came to power, with record cuts in NHS wards last year.
* The Health Minister Ann Keen is this weekend revealed to have insured her 70-year-old husband’s life for £430,000 and to have claimed the premiums on parliamentary expenses.
* David Miliband is preparing to throw his hat into the ring in a leadership contest to “save new Labour” after the party’s disastrous defeat in last week’s Crewe & Nantwich by-election.
* Key Labour donor, billionaire Lord Paul, tells Gordon Brown “You are letting us downW”
* Unite, Great Britain's biggest trade union, is preparing to announce an historic merger with a US counterpart, USW, paving the way for the establishment of the first global labour organisation
* Some of Great Britain's biggest companies are backing the enlargement of the European Union, arguing that the economies of Eastern Europe provide lucrative growth opportunities.
* Prince Andrew has sold his house for £3-million more than the asking price to a Kazakh tycoon with whom he is said to have had business dealings
* Chelsea has sacked coach Avram Grant
* Ricky Hatton bounced back from his defeat by Floyd Mayweather to retain his IBO light-welterweight title with a unanimous points win over Juan Lazcano
News from Abroad
* Dozens of international delegates are meeting in Rangoon to pledge money for Burma's recovery after the devastating Cyclone Nargis, which killed 78,000. Burma's military government is expected to ask for a total of nearly $11-billion (£5.5-billion) to fund relief work.
* A survivor has been pulled from the rubble more than 11-days after a massive earthquake hit China's Sichuan province, state TV has reported. Eighty-year-old Xiao Zhihu, who was partially paralysed before the quake, was found in the city of Mianzhu. He was trapped under a pillar of his house and had been fed by his wife. He is in a stable condition, reports said.
(Sources for news taken from newspapers and websites)
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