Northern & Shell

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British publishing and television group

Northern & Shell was a British publishing group, founded in December 1974 and owned since then by Richard Desmond. Formerly a publisher of pornographic magazines including Penthouse and Asian Babes, it published the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday, and the magazines OK!, New! and Star until these were sold to Trinity Mirror in February 2018. Northern & Shell also owned three entertainment television channels: Channel 5, 5* and 5USA until 2015. It owned Portland TV, which operates pornographic TV channels including Television X and Red Hot TV; the company sold Portland in April 2016.

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Northern and Shell Media Grouo and Northern and Shell

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Richard Desmond loses £1.3bn claim

Richard Desmond lost his £1.3 billion lawsuit against the Gambling Commission over the National Lottery contract.

Richard Desmond loses £1.3billion lotto jackpot claim that The National Lottery bid was unfair and now faces huge legal costs after a judge ruled there was 'really no basis' for his complaints Daily Mail — Apr 17, 11:51 AM
Richard Desmond loses £1.3bn lawsuit over National Lottery contract Financial Times — Apr 17, 11:42 AM
Judge throws out Richard Desmond’s billion-pound lottery case City AM — Apr 17, 11:08 AM
Richard Desmond loses damages battle with Gambling Commission, ending national lottery dispute The Guardian — Apr 17, 09:41 AM
Richard Desmond loses £1.3bn claim over national lottery The Times — Apr 17, 10:50 AM