Press Digest: British Business - May 20
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May 20 (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 The London arm of Deutsche Bank DBKGn.DE has been fined 165,000 pounds ($220,869.00) by a UK Treasury watchdog for processing payments to a Russian streaming platform. Greene King, one of Britain's largest pub groups, has called time on Old Speckled Hen after more than a quarter of a century as the pub chain moves away from selling its beers in shops and supermarkets. The Guardian The cost of the government's 38 billion pound Sizewell C's nuclear plant in Suffolk is subject to "significant uncertainty" and may outweigh the benefits for UK households until at least 2064, Britain's public spending watchdog has said. The Telegraph Britain's finance ministry is pressuring major supermarket groups to introduce voluntary price caps on key products, such as eggs, bread and milk, in return for easing some regulations. British Airways is demanding10 million pounds from Heathrow after 20,000 bags failed to make it onto flights over the weekend. Sky News Activist investor Richard Bernstein is calling for a saleof Porvair PORV.L, the 350-million-pound London-listed filtration group. The state-owned British Business Bank will this week be urged to commit 1 billion pounds to London-listed companies to address "a crisis of missed opportunity”. The Independent Major high street retailers John Lewis, Boots, and Debenhams misled customerswith their Black Friday promotions last year, according to a ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority. ($1 = 0.7470 pounds) (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom) ((globalnewsmonitoring@thomsonreuters.com))