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PRESS DIGEST-British Business - Dec 5

Dec 5 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

The Times

Forecasters from the UK met office are among the latest public bodies set to announce backing for industrial action this week, along with health and safety inspectors, chemical weapons scientists at Porton Down and experts tackling bird flu and COVID-19.

British consultancy and accounting firm PwC has told its 24,000 UK staff that it would shut its main office at 1 Embankment Place in central London and many of its smaller offices around the country over the festive period to reduce its energy usage.

The Guardian

Britain's RMT union said on Sunday that it had rejected a pay rise offer of 4% in 2022 and 2023 from train operators aimed at heading off further strike action, which has disrupted travel for millions of rail users.

British energy startup Xlinks' 18 billion pound ($22 billion) project to connect Britain with a huge wind and solar farm in the Sahara through an undersea cable has been delayed by at least a year because of political ructions in Westminster.

The Telegraph

The EU will adapt its state aid rules to prevent an exodus of investment triggered by a new U.S. green energy subsidy package, the bloc's chief said on Sunday, while offering cooperation over raw materials to counter China's dominance.

Hong Kong billionaire Ivan Ko has shown an interest in a 35-acre site opposite London City Airport that was originally planned to be the capital's answer to Venice.

Sky News

Clayton Dubilier & Rice, the owners of Britain's Morrisons is working with the headhunters Egon Zehnder to identify an eventual successor to the supermarket chain's long-serving CEO, David Potts, a year after acquiring it in a 7 billion pound deal.

John Ryley is to step down as head of Sky News after 17 years. ($1 = 0.8133 pounds) (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)