Here are the top business stories making the headlines in the morning newspapers.
Taxpayers inject £50billion to prop up the railways
Subsidising the railways has cost British households £1,800 each over the past six years, new figures show.
Taxpayers have been forced to inject £50.4billion to prop up the railways since 2016/17 as fare income is not enough to balance the books.
Figures released by regulator the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) on Tuesday showed UK Government funding was £13.3billion in the year to March 2022, compared with £17.6billion in the previous year.
The Telegraph says both figures were skewed by a jump in state aid to keep train services running during the pandemic.
The railways have required aid from the Government since privatisation under John Major in the 1990s.
Boost for UK energy security from Rough
Westminster's efforts to bolster energy security and guarantee supplies ahead of winter have been given a big shot in the arm.
Centrica has maxed out current storage levels at the Rough facility, hitting its 30billion cubic feet of gas target for the southern North Sea site.
Energy Voice says that is enough to sustain the UK for three days.
It comes just a few months after British Gas-owner Centrica partially reopened the asset, which had spent around five years lying dormant.
At one point, the facility accounted for 70% of Britain's natural gas storage capacity, and it had the potential to hold 150billion cubic feet of gas, about 10 days of demand.
Rough was shut down in 2017 after state support for the facility was pulled, meaning it was too expensive to keep operational.
Aberdeen-based engineering and consultancy group Wood last week announced a contract win for Rough.
The firm was appointed integrated services partner by Centrica Storage for the company's UK southern North Sea operations.
Flats plan
Plans to turn Aberdeen's Ruby House office block into dozens of flats have been approved by the council.
The 59-flat transformation was unveiled earlier this year, with the "largely vacant" complex just off South Silver Street in need of a new purpose.
However, the Press and Journal says local people had warned of "dire" parking problems, and blasted the "tiny flats" envisioned for the four-storey 1970s block.
And Aberdeen Civic Society went a step further than that, suggesting it should be demolished instead.
Appointment at ScottishPower Renewables
ScottishPower Renewables has appointed its first head of offshore development for Scotland, as it looks to make good on success in the ScotWind leasing round.
Current new UK sites manager Mandy Gloyer - who the company says was "instrumental" in the group's ScotWind achievement - will take up the new position in January.
Energy Voice says the role sees her take on responsibility for overseeing all of the company's renewables development activities in Scottish waters.
This includes the 3GW MarramWind and 2GW CampionWind floating wind farm sites being developed off the north and north-east coasts in partnership with Shell, as well as the 2GW MachairWind fixed-bottom site off the coast of Argyll, which the developer will construct on its own.
Nurses to be consulted on pay offer
Nurses in Scotland are to be consulted on the Scottish Government's latest pay offer, their union has announced.
The offer would mean a pay rise of 11.3% for the lowest paid and an average rise of 7.5%, the government said when it outlined the proposal last week.
The Royal College of Nursing said at the time the offer was "credible" but "still falls short".
It will now ask its members whether to accept the deal.
The BBC says the union is making no recommendation on whether they should do so.
Driving instructors to strike
Driving examiners and rural payment officers at more than 250 sites across the UK are to go on strike in a series of walkouts by civil servants.
The BBC says members of the Public and Commercial Services union will hold rolling strikes from December 13 to January 16.
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency and Rural Payments Agency are two of many government departments that voted to strike over pay and other terms.
The government said the union's demands were "unaffordable".
Another Royal Mail walkout
Postal workers at Royal Mail have begun a fresh 48-hour strike in a row over pay and conditions.
The BBC says it is the latest in a series of walkouts involving 115,000 postal workers and will affect deliveries of letters and parcels across the UK.
The Communication Workers Union, which represents the workers, says its members want a pay rise that matches the surging cost of living.
Royal Mail said it had tabled a revised offer, but "no talks are happening".
Qatar gas for Germany
Germany has struck a long-term gas deal with Qatar as Europe's largest economy scrambles to replace lost Russian supplies.
The Persian Gulf State will ship up to two million tons of liquefied natural gas per year to Germany for at least 15 years from 2026, under an agreement between state-owned Qatar Energy and the US corporation ConocoPhillips.
The Telegraph says Germany bought 50% of its gas from Russia before the war in Ukraine and urgently needs to find new suppliers to maintain its industrial might and keep families warm.
'Extraordinary' mini-Budget events
The Bank of England was shut out of Kwasi Kwarteng's tax-slashing mini-Budget in an "extraordinary" turn of events, Andrew Bailey has claimed.
The Governor said the Bank was not briefed by the Treasury on the former Chancellor's £45billion package of tax cuts, which crashed the pound and forced Threadneedle Street to intervene with a fresh multi-billion pound bout of bond purchases.
The Telegraph says that, during a grilling from his predecessor Lord King, Mr Bailey told the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee he believes the contents of the mini-Budget was not even "settled" the day before it was delivered.
He said the lack of Treasury communication was a "very abnormal situation", adding that there was "no formal communication of the sort we normally have and it was quite an extraordinary process in that sense".
EasyJet says people still spending on holidays
People are protecting their spending on holidays despite the cost-of-living crisis, the boss of easyJet has said.
Johan Lundgren told the BBC the airline had seen strong demand for flights over half-term, Christmas and New Year despite the "pressure" on households.
However, he said demand outside peak periods remained below usual levels.
The BBC says it came as the low-cost carrier reported a sharp bounce-back in sales and narrowed its losses for the year to September 30.
The company said it had faced "multiple headwinds" in the period, including Covid restrictions and the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which drove up fuel prices.