Here are the top business stories making the headlines in the morning newspapers.
Offshore awards
Winners of the Offshore Energies UK 2022 awards were unveiled last night at P&J Live in Aberdeen.
More than 400 people attended the event to find out which of the 27 finalists would be crowned cream of the crop.
The Press and Journal says an expert panel considered in excess of 70 nominations from across the offshore energy sector.
Judged category winners
- Apprentice of the year - Jordan Machray, PBS by Ponticelli
- Early career professional of the year - Laura Carrigan, Proserv
- People and culture - Peterson Energy Logistics
- Equality, diversity and inclusion - Baker Hughes
- Energy transition - Worley
- Operator of the year - CNOOC International
- Supply-chain company of the year, large enterprises - Petrofac
- Supply-chain company of the year, small and medium-sized enterprises - Katoni Engineering
Good news for late-night workers in Glasgow
Glasgow City Council has passed a motion requiring hospitality businesses to provide free and safe transport home for late-night workers after 11pm.
It will apply to any new alcohol licences, or existing businesses applying for extended operating hours.
The BBC says Unite union members had lobbied for the move through the Get Me Home Safely campaign.
It was led by hotel worker Caitlin Lee who was assaulted as she was walking home after finishing her shift.
She said her employer had refused to pay for her taxi home.
Since the campaign was launched in 2021, schemes have been introduced by Edinburgh City Council, East Dunbartonshire, North Ayrshire, Falkirk and Dundee.
Second 'Big Bang' for banks
The UK Government is set to announce what it describes as one of the biggest overhauls of financial regulation for more than three decades.
The BBC says it is expected to loosen rules on banks introduced after the financial crisis in 2008 when some banks faced collapse.
The changes will be presented as an example of post-Brexit freedom to tailor regulation specifically to the needs and strengths of the UK economy.
Critics will say it risks forgetting the lessons of the financial crisis.
The plans to ease regulations on financial services are being described as a second "Big Bang" - a reference to the deregulation of financial services by Margaret Thatcher's government in 1986.
Royal Mail strikes start
Postal workers at Royal Mail have begun a wave of strikes in the run-up to Christmas in a row over pay and conditions.
The walkouts involving 115,000 workers will hit deliveries across the UK, Royal Mail said.
Millions of pieces of mail have been piling up ahead of the action, the CWU union says.
The BBC says negotiations between the union and Royal Mail have broken down.
Members of the CWU are due to strike today, followed by other walkouts on December 11, 14, 15, 23 and 24.
'Serious disruption' expected at many airports
People face "serious disruption" at UK airports over Christmas due to planned strikes by border staff, the home secretary has warned.
Suella Braverman said people should "think carefully" about their plans as they may well be impacted.
Staff at six airports will stage walkouts from December 23 to Boxing Day and from December 28 to New Year's Eve.
The BBC says the strikes come at one of the busiest times for travel and coincide with walkouts by train and rail workers.
It is the first Christmas since 2019 that airlines have been able to operate without widespread Covid restrictions.
Up to two million passengers are expected to arrive between December 23 and 31 at the airports where the strikes will take place, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium.
It said that more than 10,000 flights are scheduled to arrive at Heathrow, London Gatwick, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff and Glasgow airports during the period.
Around 1,000 Public and Commercial Services union members - including people who work in passport control - are taking industrial action after the Home Office offered workers a 2% pay rise instead of the 10% they requested.
Planning permission for carbon-capture power station
The Keadby 3 carbon-capture power station in the Humber is leading the way in Britain.
Energy Voice says it has become the first power and carbon-capture-and-storage project in the UK to receive planning permission.
Developers SSE Thermal and Equinor confirmed yesterday that the proposed plant in North Lincolnshire has now received a development consent order following permission from the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The pair said the order marked "a major step forward" for Keadby 3, which is currently in the due-diligence stage of the UK Government's Cluster-Sequencing Process.
SSE Thermal and Equinor are also collaborating on plans for a Peterhead carbon-capture power station.