Betting firms and TV channels oppose likely plan to ban daytime adverts

Figures show gambling firms spent £162m on advertising so far this year

Southern rail and RMT to hold talks in bid to avert series of strikes

New talks come as Govia Thameslink axes poster campaign urging commuters to ‘strike back’ after Twitter backlash

Sainsbury’s Bank credit card ad banned for being ‘socially irresponsible’

Campaign featuring a couple talking about renovating their home ‘trivialised the process of taking out credit’, says ASA

Facebook takes on Craigslist and eBay with new classified ad service

Marketplace will let Facebook users list items for sale, and could be an attempt to upend the crowded world of peer-to-peer selling

Twitter pays £1.24m in UK tax as revenues increase by 30.5%

Twitter UK’s 163 staff get £12.5m in shares as company reports revenues of £76m last year, but analysts say figure is much higher

Daily Mirror owner makes £20m cuts as print ads slide

Trinity Mirror follows Mail publisher DMGT in increasing cost savings targets

Sports Direct’s complaint about BBC’s ‘toilet birth’ story rejected

Retailer said BBC1 investigation misled audience by implying incident was example of staff member turning up to work when they were unfit to do so

Daily Mail owner cuts more than 400 jobs as it battles ‘challenging market’

DMGT launches strategic review and expects to take £50m charge relating to reorganisation

Royal Bank of Scotland turns its back on the Fred Goodwin era

Advertising campaign is part of group’s strategy to run two brands: NatWest in England and Wales and Royal Bank in Scotland

BBC Radio 1 aims to be ‘Netflix of music radio’ with phone-first strategy

Controller Ben Cooper says station’s on-demand programming should be on a par with live on-air programming

There will be fingers in the BBC pie long after Bake Off has gone

A new royal charter that promises ‘stability’ and ‘independence’ will do nothing to protect the corporation from an endless tug-of-influence

Everyman cinema chain is next to drop zero-hours contracts

All staff at the boutique group will be offered minimum hours of work, following similar moves at rival Curzon Cinemas and Sports Direct

Sky boss sees pay drop by three quarters – but still takes home almost £5m

Jeremy Darroch’s 3% pay rise and £2m bonus dwarfed by last year’s £18m bumper pay packet

Meet Generation M: the young, affluent Muslims changing the world

Burkinis, misery memoirs and people on camels: the caricatures of Islam don’t leave much room for modernity. The author of a new book argues that this image is absurd – and that a new demographic is about to flex its economic muscles

Sky invests £3.4m in French TV streaming platform Molotov

Service operates on a ‘freemium’ model offering on-demand viewing from both free and pay-TV channels