What the Sunday papers say

SUNDAY EXPRESS INFLATION is ticking upwards because of last month’s price increases from the Big Six and challenger energy suppliers, official data is expected to show this week. SKY’S new owner Comcast has vowed to invest in the pay-TV giant so that it can continue to grow in the UK and Europe. A KUWAITI tycoon has poured more than £50million into a bid to get planning permission for a theme park in Kent to rival Disneyland, according to recentlyfiled accounts. SUNDAY TIMES STAR fund manager Neil Woodford has sent shockwaves through the stock market by dumping an estimated £1.4billion of shares in the past six months, scrambling to raise cash as unhappy investors withdraw money from his funds. BUSINESS Secretary Greg Clark held a crunch meeting with Hitachi in Tokyo last week over its planned £15billion Welsh nuclear power station, as a rival Japanese project collapsed. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH NICK READ, the new Vodafone boss, is poised to defy pressure to cut the telecoms giant’s dividend to bring its mounting debt pile under control. THE new boss of Co-op Bank has insisted he has no desire to put the bank up for sale amid speculation that it is about to be put on the block. OBSERVER UK high streets are in precipitous decline, according to new data that showed the number of shops, pubs and restaurants lying empty soared by more than 4,400 in the first six months of this year.