Does Northern & Shell even exist anymore? They seem to have sold-off everything that I was aware that they even owned, since offloading Channel 5 to Viacom a while back. (e.g. the Express and Star "news"-papers (pah!) went to Trinity Mirror (as was) quite recently)
Do they still own the porno mags and channels? He's not called Dirty Des for nothing.
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That must be about all they own now.
Channel 5, Express, Star, celeb gossip magazines. All sold off AFAIK.
Sure I read somewhere that they've even sold off some of the porno stuff. N&S can't possibly fill that clunking great big building which is supposedly their HQ.
N&S must be a bit like UTV rattling around in Havelock House with swathes of empty rooms and corridors.
EDIT: Back on topic...
Do we know when That's Terrible will start broadcasting anything other than a holding slide in Scotland? (The holding slide may well be preferable to whatever the alternative will be...)
N&S must be a bit like UTV rattling around in Havelock House with swathes of empty rooms and corridors.
I think most of the titles they sold to Trinity Mirror are still based at the N&S Building. Express Newspapers always rented their office space from another company owned by N&S.
N&S must be a bit like UTV rattling around in Havelock House with swathes of empty rooms and corridors.
I think most of the titles they sold to Trinity Mirror are still based at the N&S Building. Express Newspapers always rented their office space from another company owned by N&S.
As part of the deal with N&S, Reach (formerly Trinity Mirror) signed a 10 year lease on the office space for the titles as there isn't the room at Canary Wharf.
The Northern & Shell Building has always been a business that rents space to other companies. One of the ways in which Desmond benefited significantly from various takeovers was by charging them rent. None of them were given office space, they all had to pay rent irrelevant of how well they were doing. It's a smart way of doing things but morally questionable considering the cuts made to the Express over the last 15 years.