Sunday Papers: Osborne to unleash raft of policies to kick-start growth

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• The Sunday Telegraph: The Government is to reveal a series of major new measures to boost national and regional growth ahead of the Budget to show its "pro-business" strategy is working.
• The Sunday Telegraph: Apax, one of Europe's biggest private equity firms, has been approached over a potential £1 billion sale of Travelex, the foreign exchange business.
• Mail on Sunday: The payment protection insurance scandal, which has already cost banks £12 billion and hit millions of consumers, is taking a new twist as borrowers wake up to the vast sums that they have spent supposedly insuring their credit card debts.
• Independent on Sunday: Facebook is attempting to shed a reputation for being stand-offish with advertisers by promising to show "humility" and work more closely with agencies and brands.
• Independent on Sunday: FTSE 100 mining giant Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation will this week announce a massive writedown on its operations that could exceed $1 billion.
• The Sunday Telegraph: Thousands of British savers, including armed forces personnel, are to be hit by a eurozone tax on Cypriot banks after the island's £8.7 billion bail-out.

Business and economics

• The Sunday Telegraph: J Sainsbury, the supermarket chain, is forecast to post a rise in fourth-quarter like-for-like sales of up to 1%, while fashion retailer Next could report a 7% increase in annual pre-tax profits.
• Mail on Sunday: Rival airline chiefs have joined forces in an unprecedented show of unity to call on the Chancellor to scrap Air Passenger Duty in Wednesday’s Budget to boost growth.
• The Independent on Sunday: The £24 billion UK aerospace industry will receive a welcome boost tomorrow when a government-led investment plan worth hundreds of millions of pounds is due to be announced by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
• The Sunday Telegraph: Sir Philip Green says he aims to fashion a billion-dollar business in America with his Topshop fashion brand within five years.
• Mail on Sunday: Investment banks would do best to return to the days of partnerships when it comes to their bonuses, according to Goldman Sachs’ economist and asset management boss Jim O’Neill.
• The Independent on Sunday: BSkyB is eyeing a move into local news that would pitch Rupert Murdoch's broadcasting giant into competition with regional newspaper groups such as Trinity Mirror and Johnston Press.
• The Sunday Telegraph: Britain's banks are bracing themselves for a possible demand to strengthen their capital position this week amid concern lenders may have to bolster their balance sheets.
• The Independent on Sunday: Property empire Land Securities is betting that the north's flagging economy will soon return to health as it launches a £350 million shopping centre in Leeds.
• Mail on Sunday: The Chancellor is considering schemes to boost Britain’s medium-sized companies by allowing them to step outside the reach of corporation tax.
• The Sunday Telegraph: Although the digital revolution has only been going for about 20 years, internet and mobile advertising spending already amounts to about 20pc of global advertising spending.
• The Independent on Sunday: George Osborne will this week pave the way for the first overhaul of the Bank of England's mandate since the monetary authority was granted operational independence under Labour in 1997.

Share tips, comment and bids

• The Sunday Telegraph: Andrew Higginson has drafted in a group of banking veterans to bolster his bid for Royal Bank of Scotland's Williams and Glyn's branch business ahead of Thursday's bid deadline.
• The Sunday Telegraph (Comment): In Budget week, George Osborne can signal that he is passionate about backing this country's future - he should green light Hinkley Point in Somerset.
• The Sunday Telegraph (Comment): George Osborne faces a bleak set of circumstances ahead of this Wednesday's Budget. The economy is extremely fragile and Britain has just endured the ignominy of a sovereign downgrade.
• Mail on Sunday (Midas share tips): Condor Gold shares have real potential for the adventurous; investors should hold the shares of industrial parts business Brammer and watch the company grow.
• The Independent on Sunday (Comment): It is of course another Budget on Wednesday and one that the Chancellor should not enjoy delivering, for this was not where we were meant to be. We ought by now to be halfway through the coalition's deficit- cutting programme and we are only one third of the way through.
• The Independent on Sunday (Comment): Simon Fox, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, should have known better than to go to ground over the allegations of phone-hacking at his newspapers.
• The Independent on Sunday (Comment): Don't faint, but it really does look as though Sir Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, is right about seeing light at the end of the tunnel – and for once he's not predicting a train crash.