Robert Maxwell

Court adjourns hearing for son of Maxwell

Kevin Maxwell, a son of Robert Maxwell, the late media tycoon, and once the biggest bankrupt in British history, is again facing bankruptcy over money owed to a London pawnbroker. Mr Maxwell, 50, was due to appear at the High...

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Brian Monteith: Don't play along with this waste

Published Date: 19 November 2009 DOES Scotland really need to be hosting a Commonwealth Games in 2014? It might seem a pointless question now that we are less than five years away from Glasgow's sporting jamboree – but I...

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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: How libel laws silence our democracy

Never mind the fatwas, I say, and don't get hyper-agitated by the PC platoon, we who do not find rape jokes hilarious and who rebuff the fond nicknames "Paki" and "retard" and believe careless language can sanction cruelty and...

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RESTAURANT: Take it Slo as winter sets in

Write your own review Paul Stammers enjoys laying down a few calories at Moya in St Clement’s Flamboyant tycoon and one-time Oxford United owner Robert Maxwell was dubbed the Bouncing Czech by Private Eye magazine. But the...

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Cashing in On Electronic Books

Jeff Bezos Hawks the Kindle It's still not clear whether electronic books are the wave of the future or a consumer products cul-de-sac. Technology continues to improve, and there are certainly lots of good reasons for a device...

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Trinity Mirror advertising revenue fall slows to 20% drop

Trinity Mirror, the newspaper group, said today that the rate of decline in advertising revenues is beginning to slow, following a 25 per cent drop for the year to date. The publisher, which owns the Daily Mirror and The...

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Roy Greenslade: Journalists must promise not to use the libel law

It is time for newspaper publishers, editors and journalists to stop using the libel law. We must all make a pledge never to sue for libel as long as the current law remains on the statute book. I made that point at yesterday's...

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Mirror's pension decision no surprise

It is little surprise that Trinity Mirror wants to close its final-salary pension scheme . As long ago as June last year, the Sunday Times was reporting that trustees were concerned about the state of the funds. In March, Media...

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Norwich City give minnows Paulton Rovers a 70 wakeup call in the FA Cup

After Paulton Rovers' 7-0 defeat to Norwich, Jim White tells of how the Somerset side 'lived the dream'. It is not often Norwich City are the subject of fantasy, but here they were, in post-industrial Somerset, acting against...

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Trinity Mirror closes final pension schemes

NEWSPAPER publisher Trinity Mirror is joining the list of companies closing their final-salary pension schemes to existing members. The owner of the Daily Mirror and numerous regional titles is entering a two-month consultation...

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