Tuesday newspaper round-up: Ebola, Greece, City Link...

30th Dec 2014 06:53

A woman returning home from Sierra Leone has become the first person in the UK to be diagnosed with Ebola, according to The Telegraph. Britain's screening system for the disease immediately came under scrutiny after the NHS nurse's condition was not detected in either country. Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister, confirmed that a woman was being treated at Gartnavel Hospital in Glasgow after returning to Scotland via London."The Eurozone's long-simmering crisis has returned with a vengeance as snap elections in Greece open the way for an anti-austerity government and a cathartic showdown over the terms of euro membership," The Telegraph writes. Yields on three-year Greek bond soared 185 basis points to 11.9% on Monday.According to The Guardian, City Link's private-equity owner Better Capital said it hopes to recover £20m from the collapse of the delivery firm despite confirming thousands of job cuts. Some of the 2,727 staff and 1,000 contractors that work for City Link will be retained into the new year, though a "substantial" round of cuts would take place on Wednesday. Better Capital expects to recoup half of the £40m it invested into the business it bought in 2013.Chinese phone maker Xiamoi could be the new Apple, according to The Times, after a funding round valued the four-year-old company at $45bn. The brand is relatively unknown to British consumers, but holds 30% of its home market and only trails Apple and Samsung in the global industry.JD Wetherspoon is planning to open 200 more pubs and create 15,000 jobs over the next five years, The Scotsman writes. The company said it would invest over £400m to develop new sites over the UK and Republic of Ireland.Company Watch has said that a third of Britain's oil and gas companies listed on the stock market could face bankruptcy after the collapse of crude prices, The Telegraph reports. The financial risk management group said that 70% of companies are now unprofitable.E-cigarettes were the fastest-growing supermarket product in 2014, with sales rising 43.4% to £122m, according to the Financial Times. Sales in volume terms increased 49.5% on 2013 to 17.3m units, data from Nielsen showed.A hero pilot was hailed today after bringing down a stricken Virgin Atlantic plane packed with more than 450 passengers and crew when its landing gear failed, The Telegraph reported. The Boeing 747 bound for Las Vegas circled at low altitude for around four hours before being forced to make an emergency landing at Gatwick.CBI director-general John Cridland has said that "major structural changes" are needed, including reducing the deficit, in order to save 1,000 job cuts in the public sector, reports The Scotsman.