Independent News & Media is expected formally to reject rebel shareholder Denis O’Brien’s plans to refinance the company and sell off its British newspapers... more
To write about the problems now besetting the company that owns The Independent is rather like intruding on personal grief because of its significance to the O’Reilly family, most notably its patriarch, Sir Anthony John Francis O’Reilly... more
An uneasy six months of truce at Independent News & Media collapsed as its second-largest shareholder Denis O’Brien called for an immediate sale or the closure of The Independent and The Independent on Sunday ... more
Independent News & Media, beleaguered owner of The Independent, confirmed it is looking at a massively discounted rights issue and wants the deadline for refinancing its debt extended from this Friday to the end of next month... more
Rugby union: The British & Irish Lions depart for South Africa later this month to do battle against the Springboks. Here we look at five classic matches involving the Lions... more
One of Britain and Ireland's great newspaper barons has given up the game as Sir Tony O'Reilly stood down for the sake of peace at the warring Independent News & Media (INM)... more
To quote from its understandably immodest blurb, The Independent opened a bright new chapter in its history yesterday with a full-colour revamp that was, well, colourful... more
My overriding ambition as a cub reporter in the mid-1960s was to become a Fleet Street journalist. For reasons I now forget I became convinced that the quickest way to get there was to become a sub-editor.... more
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