Comcast has beaten Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox in the battle for Sky after offering £30.6bn (€26bn) in a dramatic auction to decide the fate of the pay-television group.

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Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox shareholders have approved the sale of the company’s entertainment assets to Walt Disney, moving one of the biggest media mergers in history nearer to completion.

Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox has hiked its bid to take full control of Sky to £14 a share as it looks to beat rival suitor Comcast in the battle for the pay TV giant.

Walt Disney has raised its bid for Twenty-First Century Fox assets to $71.3bn (€61.5bn), sweetening its offer with cash as it looks to scuttle Comcast’s $65bn offer from last week.

US cable operator Comcast is asking investment banks to increase a bridge financing facility by as much as $60bn (€50.6bn) so it can make an all-cash offer for the media assets that Twenty-First Century Fox has agreed to sell to Walt Disney for $52bn (€44bn).

US media giant Comcast has unveiled a formal £22 billion offer for Sky, setting the stage for a bidding battle with Rupert Murdoch's 21st First Century Fox and Walt Disney to snap up the pay-TV group.

US media giant Comcast has announced a £22 billion rival bid for Sky in a move that threatens Rupert Murdoch's £11.7 billion deal to take full control of the pay-TV group.

British regulator Ofcom is facing a High Court battle over its ruling that Sky would remain "fit and proper" to hold a UK broadcasting licence if snapped up by Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox.

On a starry, frosty night last week, I heard piercing, almost eerie cries in the countryside, writes Donal Hickey

The proposed £11.7 billion takeover of Sky by 21st Century Fox is not in the public interest as the combined group would have too much control over UK news media, the British competition watchdog has provisionally found.

Walt Disney has mounted a takeover of 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets.

A report that Rupert Murdoch held talks about selling film and television assets to Walt Disney added another layer of uncertainty to his £11.7bn (€13.3bn) bid to buy all of broadcaster Sky.

The British government yesterday said it had received the additional advice it had requested on Rupert Murdoch’s bid to buy broadcaster Sky, and it would decide whether to refer the deal for an in-depth review as soon as possible.

A fox which trapped itself in a small gap between two gravestones has been freed by the RSPCA.

While some people regard the fox as a pest and an unwanted predator, the animal can keep down the rabbit, mice, and rat populations.