Mark Sweney
The Guardian
United Kingdom
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Tata Steel seals £500m UK support package but big job losses feared
Unions say as many as 3,000 workers could lose posts in long term on back of deal to help decarbonisation plans → Read More
Tata Steel poised for £500m subsidy to secure future of Port Talbot site
Expected government deal to help switch to greener production could lead to as many as 3,000 job losses → Read More
‘Studios are like ghost towns’: how Britain’s TV and film industry fell into a hole
Excitement about Netflix and Amazon’s investment has evaporated as strikes, falling ad spend and a glut of completed shows leaves crews out of work → Read More
The Range buys Wilko brand in multimillion-pound deal
The homeware retail brand has also bought the intellectual property rights of Wilko, but none of its stores → Read More
Poundland moves to buy 71 Wilko sites with possible jobs guarantee for staff
PwC says owner plans to reopen stores under Poundland brand throwing lifeline to as many as 1,800 staff → Read More
Heathrow will have to cut passenger charges by about 20% in 2024
Airport, which had hoped to raise fees, loses appeal to UK competition watchdog in provisional ruling → Read More
Daily Mail owner looks to Middle Eastern backers over Telegraph bid
Lord Rothermere is second potential suitor to turn to oil-rich region for financial support → Read More
Virgin Media O2 to snap up Russian oligarch-backed broadband firm
UK government forced sale of ‘alt-net’ broadband provider Upp on national security grounds → Read More
Ofcom investigates Virgin Media over complaints contracts hard to cancel
Media regulator also plans to name and shame telecoms firms not offering vulnerable customers cheaper deals → Read More
Pearson shares fall after US digital learning rival says AI hurting its business
Company’s shares fall 15% after Chegg says ChatGPT is affecting subscriber numbers → Read More
Liverpool predicted to get £40m Eurovision boost in visitor spending
Extra 100,000 visitors expected amid £1bn lift for UK hospitality in May helped by coronation, bank holidays and Eurovision → Read More
Labour calls for energy firms to pay more tax on £60m-a-day profits
Party wants greater taxation on North Sea profits to fund freeze on council tax for cash-strapped UK households → Read More
‘Blood in the water’: where next for the Murdoch empire, and what about the succession?
Fox News settlement seen as ‘moment of weakness’ that puts focus on mogul’s heirs and their future → Read More
Netflix doubles down on UK productions despite slowdown
Streaming firm reveals spend of close to $1.5bn a year on content such as new Keira Knightley series → Read More
Premier Inn owner surpasses pre-Covid profits as travellers seek deals
Whitbread beats analysts’ expectations, reporting £375m in pretax profits for year to 3 March → Read More
Move over Marvel: Super Mario and co are bossing the adaptation game
With more than half of people now gamers, film and TV versions of their favourites can get the kind of high scores others can only dream of → Read More
Retail sales in Great Britain dampened by poor weather
March sales fell by 0.9%, says ONS, which was more than economists had predicted → Read More
Netflix hit hardest in Britons’ post-Christmas ‘subscription cull’
Exclusive: households cancelled almost 170,000 streaming service subscriptions in first quarter of 2023 → Read More
‘It avoids a public grilling’: why Murdoch could settle Dominion’s Fox News lawsuit
Defamation trial threatens billionaire’s reputation – as well as ambition to reunite TV and newspaper empires → Read More
‘A hard business’: UK’s illustrious ad industry tainted by burnout and inequality
Agencies are struggling to attract and retain creative talent, with low pay still a problem → Read More