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25 Nov 2025 | 07:24

Tuesday newspaper round-up: AI, social media platforms, Heathrow Airport

(Sharecast News) - Up to 3m low-skilled jobs could disappear in the UK by 2035 because of automation and AI, according to a report by a leading educational research charity. The jobs most at risk are those in occupations such as trades, machine operations and administrative roles, the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) said. - Guardian Social media platforms are being urged to limit internet "pile-ons" under new guidelines to protect women and girls online. The guidance from Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, to combat misogynist abuse, coercive control and the sharing of intimate images without consent comes into force on Tuesday and includes recommendations to prevent women being harried online. - Guardian

The number of graduates still unemployed more than a year after leaving university has surged by 8,000 amid a youth jobs crisis. A poll of 2023 university leavers by Prospects at Jisc, a graduate careers website, found that 6.2pc of graduates - or 56,900 - were still out of work 15 months after ending their studies. That was up from 5.6pc or 48,700 in the previous year. - Telegraph

Heathrow Airport has won Government backing for its £49bn third runway plan after rival proposals for a shorter, cheaper landing strip from a billionaire hotel tycoon were rejected. The company's blueprint for the landmark project is set to be confirmed by Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander on Tuesday after ministers rejected a rival bid by hotel boss Surinder Arora to build a truncated runway. - Telegraph

A "bruised" government left "with little room for manoeuvre" is presiding over an incoherent strategy, the outgoing chairman of the CBI has said. Rupert Soames, in closing remarks to the business lobby group's annual conference in London, said "few would have predicted how far and how fast the government has lost its confidence and room for manoeuvre". - The Times
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