Aug 3 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
The Times
- House prices continued to rise in July, but growth is slowing as increasing mortgage costs take a toll on demand, as the average price of a home was 11% higher last month than it was a year earlier at 271,209 pounds($329,735.90). https://bit.ly/3OTR6R9
- British Airways has extended its suspension of ticket sales for another week, less than 24 hours after it first stopped selling, as it removed all short-haul tickets from Heathrow from sale until August 15. https://bit.ly/3vCmA7r
The Guardian
- About 10,000 members of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers, as well as 400 overground staff will strike for 24 hours on Friday in two separate disputes over jobs and pay, as a union-imposed deadline passed without the assurances it sought from the employers. https://bit.ly/3vw92dG
- Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram is temporarily relocating to the company's offices in King's Cross, London, less than a week after the Meta-owned company faced outrage over changes to the photo-sharing app. https://bit.ly/3vw9EA0
The Telegraph
- HSBC Chairman Mark Tucker told about 1,000 retail investors at Kowloon international trade centre that its board was examining "alternative structures", without giving details, which comes amid growing pressure from the bank's biggest shareholder Ping An to carve out its Asian operations. https://bit.ly/3zSGKN7
Sky News
- First Light Fusion, an Oxford-based company behind a approach to generating clean fusion power is kicking off a 400 million pound ($486.32 million) capital-raising that would be among the largest by a UK energy start-up. https://bit.ly/3QgSfDi
($1 = 0.8225 pounds) (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)