The parent company of the Daily Mirror is understood to be zeroing in on a deal to buy Richard Desmond’s Daily Express after being blocked from making a move on its other potential
target, regional paper group Local World. Trinity Mirror, which also owns the Sunday Mirror, Sunday People and a portfolio of regional titles, has been locked in talks with Desmond since at least
March over a sale of “certain” newspaper assets owned by Northern & Shell.
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