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In the UK, Metsä Tissue's main brand is Katrin, a paper towel and toilet roll brand used by corporate and professional clients. (Bloomberg) -- Finnish company Metsä Tissue is building a new paper mill in the Humber estuary of northeast England, in an investment worth hundreds of millions of pounds that will create 400 jobs. [Extracted from the article]

UK Gives 100 Days to Spend Last £14.5 Billion of Paper Banknotes (Bloomberg) -- The Bank of England said people holding £14.5 billion in old paper banknotes have just 100 days to spend or deposit the money before it becomes worthless. The UK central bank said about 477 million of Britain's last remaining banknotes printed on paper remain in the hands of the public but will cease to be legal tender after Sept. 30. [Extracted from the article]

This week, UK power prices for the first quarter of next year traded about £124 per megawatt-hour, about 2% lower than the equivalent French price of €147. (Bloomberg) -- The UK will increase power sales to the continent this winter as a slump in carbon prices makes it cheaper to produce electricity at gas and coal plants. [Extracted from the article]

The decline in carbon permits has accelerated since early July, when the government unveiled its plans for reforming the country's emissions market. (Bloomberg) -- The cost of UK pollution rights slumped to a two-year low, with prices now almost half those of their European Union counterparts. [Extracted from the article]

Brexit talks between the U.K. and the European Union resume next week after Prime Minister Theresa May's government released a series of position papers on its ambitions for the divorce and afterwards. The paper set out that Britain would guarantee that EU organizations and agencies could continue operating in Britain for a transitional period after Brexit. [Extracted from the article]

The Sun newspaper was the 16th most popular news source across all platforms in the U.K. in 2020, according to industry regulator Ofcom. (Bloomberg) -- Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. wrote down the value of its once high-flying Sun title to zero, underscoring the dramatic decline in Britain's newspaper industry. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Since Victorian times, London's traders have used paper documents to track metal flowing in and out of warehouses, even as the rest of the world went digital. LME Ring Trader Catches Coronavirus; Trading Floor To Stay Open. [Extracted from the article]

They also detail plans for a possible U.K. military presence inAfghanistan after the U.S.-led NATO operation there concludes. (Bloomberg) -- Documents containing classified information from the U.K.Ministry of Defence were found "in a soggy heap" by an anonymous personat a bus stop in Kent, the BBC reported on Sunday. [Extracted from the article]

The BBC didn't report further details of the Afghanistan operationdescribed on the documents due to the sensitivity of the matter. (Bloomberg) -- Documents containing classified information from the U.K.Ministry of Defence were found "in a soggy heap" by an anonymous personat a bus stop in Kent, the BBC reported on Sunday. [Extracted from the article]