Interflora today looked set to change hands for a second time in 18 months after management backed its sale to a US-based trading partner for £65.7m (€94.7m).

Florist network Interflora is considering selling out to a private equity firm in a move that would end decades of independence, it was reported today.

Unemployed Stephen Butters has been jailed for life after being found guilty of murdering his wife of just four days.