A nasty squabble has broken out between two of Britain's press empires as they prepare to fight for control of London's newspaper market. News International, set to launch a free daily named
thelondonpaper next month, has accused Associated Newspapers' rival title--
London Lite, due out this week--of plagiarism. A senior executive at News International says: "They have copied
from our dummy presentations." But Associated, which gave out preview copies of the paper last Friday, calls the claims "pathetic," describes News International's own plans as "pie in the sky," and
says executives there are "rattled." News International's free paper is likely to hurt Associated's
Evening Standard, which has had a monopoly for over a decade.
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