Person: Andrew Flanagan

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world

Forced marriage to become a crime in UK

Forced marriage is “little more than slavery”, Prime Minister David Cameron has said as the UK Government announced plans to make it a criminal offence.

business

New BT fundraising service guarantees 100% of donation to charity

world

Baby P’s mother jailed indefinitely

world

Baby P ‘stepfather’ guilty of raping girl aged two

business

ITV considers Scottish Media Group takeover

business

SMG report cools UTV merger hope

SMG and UTV in £400m merger talks

The owners of Virgin Radio and talkSport were today in talks over a merger thought to be worth around £400m (€588m).

Fri, 18 Aug, 2006

Falling share price at SMG sparks takeover speculation

Speculation was mounting today that Ulster TV could be preparing a £300m (€439.7m) move for the media group SMG, which owns Grampian and Scottish TV, Virgin Radio and the Pearl & Dean advertising business.

Sun, 23 Jul, 2006

ITV offered licence fee cuts

Broadcaster ITV was today offered deep cuts in its licence fee to help it cope with the challenge of the digital age.

Wed, 29 Jun, 2005

Williams 'unaffected' by SRU crisis

Scotland star Chris Paterson is convinced Matt Williams’ position as coach will not be affected by the current crisis which has ripped apart the Scottish Rugby Union.

Mon, 17 Jan, 2005

Anderton becomes fifth SRU casualty

Scottish Rugby Union chief executive Phil Anderton has become the latest casualty of the bitter battle for power in the game.

Wed, 12 Jan, 2005

TV firms reach deal on advertsing income

The owner of ITV franchises Grampian and Scottish Television today said it had done a deal with the newly-merged ITV group to insulate itself against falls in advertising income.

Mon, 10 May, 2004