Small Cap News reports on Britain's small and medium-sized businesses. These are the standards every story is held to.
Where our news comes from
- News comes from material sent to us (press releases and photos sent to editor@smallcapnews.co.uk, and submissions to Free Press Releases) or from primary sources such as official data, public registers and regulators.
- We do not rewrite other publications' articles. A story that is already online elsewhere is not one we run unless it was sent to us directly and we can add something.
- Each story names its source, with the date, and links to the company.
Facts, figures and quotes
- Facts, figures and dates come only from the source. Where the source leaves out something a reader would expect, such as a date, a cost or how a survey was carried out, we say so in the story.
- Quotes are reproduced word for word and attributed to the person who said them.
- We write every story in our own words.
How stories are checked
We use software tools, including AI language models, to help draft stories from the material they are based on. Automated checks run first: they reject a draft that contains a figure that is not in the source, a quotation that is not word for word in it, or a date that will go out of date. Supplied images are checked for signs that they were made with AI image tools.
Since 24 October 2026, Sam Allcock reads every story before publication, with three exceptions. Stories based on press releases submitted to Free Press Releases (our sister press release service) publish after automated checks against the release. Since 28 October 2026, stories written only from official sources, such as GOV.UK, the Office for National Statistics, HMRC, Companies House, the British Business Bank, the Bank of England or a regulator, publish after automated checks against those sources, at most three a day. Each of those stories carries a note on the page saying so. Since 2 November 2026, a story about a business (an announcement, an appointment, a deal, results, an opening or expansion, funding, or a regulatory decision) that passes every automated check and carries a real photograph supplied by that business, never a stock image, a generated graphic or an AI image, also publishes after those checks, at most six a day.
For every other story, passing the checks does not put it live: the story, including one that passes every check, is held for our editor, Sam Allcock, who reads it before it is published and decides whether it runs. A story he does not approve is not published. A Free Press Releases or official source story that fails a check, or that the checks are unsure about, is held for him in the same way.
Images
- Images are the company's own, credited, and checked for AI generation.
- We do not use stock photography, images made by AI or generated graphics on news stories. A story carries a credited photo sent by the business or organisation it is about, or no image.
Independence and paid content
We do not charge to publish news, and we do not publish paid content as news. Sponsored items, if any, are labelled.
Corrections
Send corrections to editor@smallcapnews.co.uk with the link to the story. We check them against the source and correct openly, with a dated note on the story.
Not investment advice
Nothing on this site is investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell any security. This includes the archive of stories about listed companies published before October 2026.
Send us news
Send releases and photos to editor@smallcapnews.co.uk. See Send us news for what helps us run a story.