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LONDON – Guardian News 8 Media’s plans for a club for its most loyal readers are moving ahead with the hunt beginning for someone to set up and head the scheme.

LONDON – Regional publisher Johnston Press has denied reports it is to sell its flagship title The Scotsman to a consortium of Scottish businessmen.

LONDON – Campaign celebrates England’s Ashes victory and Andrew Flintoff’s retirement from test cricket with a collection of ads featuring the cricket players who have lit up the series.

LONDON – Somerset House is creating a web tour for its forthcoming SHOWstudio fashion exhibition.

LONDON – BBC Radio 2’s “obsession with youth” is proving disastrous for commercial competitors, according to RadioCentre, the trade body for commercial station owners.

LONDON – Marks 8 Spencer has retained Efficient Frontier as its search engine marketing provider.

Lads’ mag FHM is partnering with retailer House of Fraser to revive its style flip-cover FHM Collections, which it last published in 2006.

LONDON – ITV1 enjoyed big ratings on Saturday night with 9.9m viewers watching the return of ‘X-Factor’ and 5.6m staying tuned for new gameshow ‘The Cube’, according to unofficial overnight figures.

NEW YORK – Tribune Inc, owner of the Los Angeles Times, is to sell the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team to the Ricketts family for $845m (£513m) as part of its effort to reduce its debts.

NEW YORK – Twitter has failed in a bid to trademark the word ‘tweet’ after the US Patent and Trademark Office ruled that three other companies developing applications for the site already had a prior claim on the word.