Friday newspaper round-up: Claire's, pensions triple lock, FT journalists

(Sharecast News) - The jewellery and accessories chain Claire's is expected to return to UK high streets with about 50 stores to be reopened from June onwards by the operator of its shops in France, Austria, Portugal and Spain. Julien Jarjoura, the French entrepreneur behind jewellery company Une Ligne, which sells online and via museum stores including the Louvre and the Palace of Versailles, said he had the blessing of the US owner of the Claire's brand, Ames Watson, to open stores in the UK and was signing new leases with UK landlords. - Guardian Labour has been urged by Tony Blair's thinktank to scrap the pensions triple lock amid mounting pressure on government finances. With the Iran war threatening to derail public spending plans, the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) said the "unaffordable" manifesto pledge to maintain the triple lock should be torn up as part of a wider overhaul of the state pension. - Guardian

Journalists at the Financial Times are mounting a rebellion over efforts to order staff back to the office. Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) have unanimously voted to launch a dispute procedure over plans to introduce a four-day office week. The union said bosses had "not made a compelling case" for increasing the mandate from its current level of three days, and raised a series of concerns about the new policy. - Telegraph

Ozempic breath" brought on by weight-loss jabs is fuelling a rise in demand for mints and chewing gum. Hershey, which produces Reese's and KitKats, said sales of its Ice Breaker brand of mints rose by 8pc in the three months to March. The company attributed the increase to more widespread use of GLP-1s, which slow down digestion and can cause side effects including nausea, a dry mouth and burping. - Telegraph

Elon Musk faced another tense day of questioning from lawyers representing OpenAI and Microsoft as the high-stakes trial involving some of Silicon Valley's most prominent names continued. With the OpenAI boss Sam Altman watching on, Musk, the world's richest man, was questioned for a third day about how much he knew about the proposed creation of a for-profit arm at OpenAI before he left the company in 2018. - The Times