
Northern & Shell owner Richard Desmond could be seeking close to the £125m he paid for the titles in 2000, the .
The company also owned Channel 5 between 2010 and 2014, when it sold the broadcaster to Viacom.
Trinity Mirror publishes the Mirror titles, Scotland’s Daily Record, the Sunday People, and a raft of local papers. It had previously discussed acquiring a stake in Express Newspapers.
