Thursday, November 23, 2006

£600m for Mirror?



Tycoon looking at 600 mln stg bid for Trinity Mirror national titles - report

Multi-millionaire conference organiser Marcus Evans is considering tabling a 550-600 mln stg bid for Trinity Mirror's Daily Mirror title, just over a year after 700-800 mln bid was rebuffed by the UK newspaper group, according to a report in the Times.

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