Daily Mirror owner strikes £200m deal to buy Daily Express and Daily Star publisher
Newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror has agreed a near-£200m deal to buy a string of Northern & Shell titles including the Daily Express and Daily Star.
The deal will see the publisher of the Daily Mirror snap up national newspaper titles the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday and three celebrity magazines OK!, New! and Star.
It will also hold a 50pc slice of the Irish Daily Star.
The acquisition price is £126.7m, but Trinity Mirror will also make a one-off £41.2m payment into the Northern & Shell pension scheme, then a further £29.2m through to 2027.
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