What the Sunday papers say

SUNDAY EXPRESS BRITAIN’S carbon dioxide crisis will soon ease as plants that produce the gas for food and drink producers are coming back on line, the Food & Drink Federation says. ADVERTISING guru Sir Martin Sorrell is prepared to fight WPP, the industry giant he left earlier this year, for the £20million in bonuses it has threatened to withhold from him. SANTANDER is to host a trade mission to China later this month, as part of its plans to help British SMEs seize the “big opportunities” that are available outside Europe.

SUNDAY TELEGRAPH TALKTALK’S billionaire chairman Sir Charles Dunstone is facing an attempt by investors to oust him amid enduring anger over a controversial £200million share sale that the broadband operator deployed in an effort to ease its heavy burden of debt. THE future of Premier Foods boss Gavin Darby is looking increasingly uncertain this weekend after two of the company’s biggest shareholders backed an aggressive campaign to oust him.

SUNDAY TIMES POULTRY tycoon Ranjit Boparan, known as the Chicken King, is braced for a clash with his lenders and pension trustees over the use of proceeds from a £200million sale of the Goodfella’s pizza brand.

OBSERVER THE trade war between the US and other major economies escalated on Friday after Washington and Beijing launched punitive import tariffs on $34billion (£25.7billion) worth of each other’s goods.