A to Z of the Sunday newspapers

HERE is This is Money's round-up of some of the bigger stories from the Sunday newspapers this weekend.

Manchester United

Joel Glazer, the architect of a controversial £800m attempt to take over Manchester United, is to travel to the UK within the next 10 days to launch a charm offensive designed to win over opponents of the deal.

Rank Group

The gaming, leisure and film services company is to announce a radical restructuring that will see it demerge its film business into a separately listed vehicle and sell its media company.

Royal Mail

Postwatch has warned that genuine competition to Royal Mail's monopoly will fail unless Postcomm takes a more active role in opening up the market.

Shell

The Anglo-Dutch oil giant has launched a campaign to win support from leading shareholders to approve a significant rise in pay for its chief executive, Jeroen van der Veer.

Sunday Times

Kwik-fit

The car-parts retailer is lining up investment banks to advise on a potential sale or flotation that could value the company at more than £700m.

London Stock Exchange

A full-blown war looks set to break out between Deutsche Borse and its biggest shareholders over the refusal of the German exchange's management to drop its £1.4bn bid for the London Stock Exchange.

Marks & Spencer

Speculation over whether retail entrepreneur Philip Green will launch a third assault on M&S look set to increase after his main backer, Goldman Sachs, emerged as a surprise front-runner to buy Travelex, the world's biggest foreign-exchange provider.

Observer

BAE Systems

The government is gravely worried about any move defence company BAE Systems might make to sell its stake in European civil aircraft manufacturer Airbus.

Rover

Chinese car maker Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation is expected to meet the Chancellor this week with the aim of sealing its proposed joint venture with MG Rover.

The Business

Employment

Almost half of all jobs created in the UK since 1997 have been in the public sector, taking the state's share of the workforce to one in four, a report will say on Monday.

Internet

Microsoft is set to launch an internet television service that aims to rival existing internet services and give television as we know it a run for its money.

Oil

The world's leading oil companies will this week demand that the Securities and Exchange Commission, the main US financial regulator, reforms its rules for reporting oil and gas reserves.

Sunday Express

Insurance

Insurance broker Marsh & McLennan could slash hundreds of jobs in the UK as early as the end of March when a review of the firm's business operations comes to an end.

Mortgage lending

Mortgage banks Bradford & Bingley and Alliance & Leicester are set to reveal lacklustre profits this week amid concerns over exposure to buy-to-let properties and unsecured loans.

Independent on Sunday

Camelot

The Euromillions lottery game, launched by Camelot last year amid predictions of £50m jackpots, has fallen far short of expectations with sales of around £2m a week - compared to the main Lotto draw's £60m.

Threshers

A much-hyped move into fresh food by off-licence chain Threshers, owned by Guy Hands' Terra Firma Capital Partners, has been ditched after less than a year.

QinetiQ

The partially privatised defence laboratory group is being groomed for a £1bn-plus flotation later this year.