What The Sunday Business Papers Said: The Sunday Times

The Government is preparing a pounds 60m aid package to secure the future of Nissan's high-profile car plant at Sunderland.

Buy.com, one of America's top Internet retailing companies, is thought to be planning a $2bn (pounds 1.25bn) Wall Street flotation this autumn.

Somerfield, Britain's number five grocery group, is facing a painful profits shortfall and is putting pressure on suppliers to cut prices retrospectively to deliver the results the City is expecting.