Author: Nathan Bissitt

The Daily Mail’s owner has tabled a bid to buy the current affairs magazine The Week amid a hotly contested battle to break up the media group behind Viz. Sky News has learnt that Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) lodged a formal offer last week for the

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Is football coming home? With England now in the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup it’s closer than a lot of us can remember – and the effects are being felt in pubs, streets and supermarkets across the country. As fans throughout England prepare for the

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Amid data protection breaches, automation fears and social media harassment, calls are growing in Westminster for new independent internet regulations. Alongside the many social harms attributed to the internet, it has also earned hostile opposition from the companies

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Tim Martin, founder and chairman of pub chain JD Wetherspoon, has attacked Theresa May’s plans for leaving the European Union. Mr Martin, a staunch supporter of Brexit, criticised the prime minister for seeking a deal with “unelected EU

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J Sainsbury has named City grandee Martin Scicluna as its next chairman, as the supermarket chain tries to steer through a £15bn merger with Asda. The veteran of blue-chip boardrooms will replace David Tyler, who has been at the retailer for almost nine years. Sky

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Sky plc, the owner of Sky News, today agreed to a takeover by 21stCentury Fox, the US entertainment giant, valuing it at £24.5bn. Fox, which is already Sky’s biggest shareholder with a 39.1% stake, agreed to buy out other shareholders at a price of £14 a share.

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The Trump administration is threatening to impose fresh tariffs on another $200bn (£150bn) of Chinese goods – with Beijing branding the plans as “totally unacceptable”. More than 6,000 items could be affected – including burglar alarms, car

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Facebook is to be hit with the maximum £500,000 ($663,000) fine over data protection breaches related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The UK’s information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, said she would fine the social network as her office investigates how

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The leaders of Britain’s biggest business groups have met new Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, telling him that time is running out for a deal to be agreed with the European Union. Mr Raab met bosses of the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), Institute of

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The City grandee who leads RSA, the FTSE-100 insurer, is being lined up as the next chairman of J Sainsbury, as it tries to steer through a £15bn merger with Asda to create Britain’s biggest food retailer. Sky News has learnt that Martin Scicluna, a veteran of

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