What the Sunday papers say

SUNDAY EXPRESS BRITAIN’S biggest banks have closed or are closing more than 2,000 branches since 2015, according to consumer watchdog Which? AVIVA is set to slash costs for its existing home and motor customers, by giving them rates as good as or even better than its new clients get. VIRGIN Active is trialling gyms that are up to a quarter of the size of its current sites as part of its expansion plans, UK managing director Robert Cook says.

SUNDAY TIMES BILLIONS of pounds of new investment in Britain’s burgeoning life sciences sector will be announced this week, with Glaxo Smith Kline among those unveiling significant projects. QUESTIONS have emerged over why the UK offshoot of Toys R Us wrote off £585million of loans to a related company based in the British Virgin Islands – months before it prepared to slash hundreds of jobs.

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH SUPPORT is growing from major retailers for a bottle deposit scheme to combat plastic waste, despite opposition from the industry. THOUSANDS of Britons transferred to the US by their employers face the threat of losing their work visas under changes imposed by the Trump administration.

OBSERVER HOLD on to your hats – it’s pension week. Several chunky pension reports are expected to be released in the coming days, according to investment advisers Hargreaves Lansdown.