Happy to say that I've finished the graduate scheme at The Times and will now be working as a general business reporter, primarily covering trade!

1/4 Fears of a spill in Gibraltar grow as Russia’s shadow fleet transports oil, writes Tom Saunders The Times and The Sunday Times, featuring KSE Institute 🇺🇦 study. Tankers over 15 years old raise concerns of a potential environmental disaster in British waters. Details: bit.ly/3Ua7fYd

Auspicious timing. One day off the two year anniversary of two sandwiches! google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.…

What should the UK government do with BILLIONS of seized bitcoin? By ⁦Tom Saunders⁩ thetimes.com/article/b0a66a…

Non-US Election News: A year ago George Greenwood, Louis Goddard and I reported that a UK semiconductor manufacturer, FTDI, bought by a Chinese state-owned entity had supplied chips to Russia - at least one ending up in a Russian Tank. On the back of our reporting, today the UK

The government will force a Chinese tech company to sell its majority stake in a British chipmaker a year after Tom Saunders, Louis Goddard and I revealed that microchips it had sold to Russia were found in a tank destroyed in Ukraine. thetimes.com/business-money…

Police are investigating claims of stalking and “corporate espionage” made by executives at Boohoo Group, The Times can reveal. With Richard Fletcher Fiona Hamilton James Hurley thetimes.com/article/d1e109…

AstraZeneca, Britain’s most valuable public company, has made about £45 million in payments to doctors and healthcare organisations in Russia since the war against Ukraine, despite the UK’s growing involvement With Tom Saunders thetimes.com/article/ac818f…

Yesterday the defence sec said that the Yantar, a known Russian intelligence ship, was spotted passing through British waters. It's not the only Russian ship with military links to pass through UK waters since Feb 2022. With Emma Yeomans thetimes.com/uk/defence/art…

The Times has partnered with Shadow Fleet Secrets, which shows that more than a third of the tankers in the Shadow fleet were previously owned by European and US shipping companies, producing sales of more than $6 billion. This includes ship owners from the UK: with

CCEP is almost guaranteed to join the FTSE 100 at the next reshuffle. Combined with the other Coca-Cola bottler already in the index, Coca-Cola HBC, it will mean nearly 2% of the entire FTSE 100 market cap is dedicated to bottling or selling Coca-Cola products

For the first time ever, Rolls-Royce's market cap has surpassed that of BP. The vast majority of this is down to individual performance. Though Trump factor - combination of tariffs + European rearmmament likely pushing both over the edge.

Spelthorne council, which invested over £1 billion in properties including BP's main campus, is to be taken over by government-appointed commissioners. I wrote about bad property bets made by the council and three others in London's commuter belt last year.

AstraZeneca remained active and profitable in 🇷🇺 — and in April sponsored a Moscow forum where its Russia head joined a panel that included sanctioned Kremlin officials. Tom Saunders of The Times and The Sunday Times reports, with comments from KSE Institute 🇺🇦’s leave-russia.org. thetimes.com/business-money…

We’re in The Times and The Sunday Times today with Enterprise Nation member Mous It’s about the scrapping of a scheme providing grants for small businesses to attend overseas trade shows which has been blamed for a fall in the number of UK firms going to the events: ow.ly/GqZE50W9TA2

EXC: At least 7 vessels exported Iranian oil or related products while holding British insurance from two British shipping insurers. thetimes.com/business-money…