What the Sunday papers say

SUNDAY EXPRESS MORE than 40 per cent of small businesses in the hospitality and leisure sectors believe that they are paying too much for their card payment terminals, says the AA. ENERGY regulator Ofgem needs to drastically overhaul its oversight of challenging suppliers to prevent them from collapsing and leaving customers out of sorts, industry chiefs warn. BRITAIN’S budget deficit rocketed by more than 150 per cent to nearly £1billion in July, new figures from the Office for National Statistics this week are expected to show. SUNDAY TIMES RATHBONES, the wealth manager whose founding family helped to abolish slavery, is in talks over a £2billion merger with rival investment house Smith and Williamson (S&W). A BOOM in cheap loans provided by the Bank of England is fuelling Britain’s consumer debt bubble. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH BT’S mobile arm EE is preparing to go into battle with rival operator Three over billions of pounds worth of airwaves, amid fears of delays to 5G network upgrade plans. A THREE-WAY race to become Britain’s top water watchdog is under way following the shock departure of Ofwat chief executive Cathryn Ross. OBSERVER UBER’S relationship with its drivers is a matter of legal dispute, with the San Francisco-based firm due in court next month to challenge a tribunal ruling that they should be treated as employees with rights such as sick pay and minimum wage.