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Monday newspaper round-up: Housing market, Tesco, Severn Trent

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18/11/2013

Help to Buy will distort housing market, warn bank chiefs; Tesco accused of carrying rubbish in food trucks; BT’s Liv Garfield to be next Severn Trent chief.

The British Bankers’ Association (BBA) has warned Chancellor George Osborne that the lack of an end date to his flagship Help to Buy programme could cause serious distortion in the housing market, The Daily Telegraph has learned.

Tesco has been accused of carrying its rubbish in food trucks to cut costs, according to The Guardian.

Severn Trent has announced that Liv Garfield would leave BT to become Chief Executive of the water utility, the Financial Times reported.

The European Union’s proposed bank bailout could cost more than €150bn, The Times said.

British businesses are more optimistic about the future than their rivals across the developed world, the Daily Mail reported, citing a Markit report.

Capita’s Chief Executive said today he would step down 26 years after joining Britain’s largest outsourcing group, The Times revealed.

Google and Microsoft have agreed upon a set of changes that will see images of child abuse blocked from their search engines for the first time, The Independent said.