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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Simon English

Sale of Telegraph Group "still wide open" -- bankers

THE race to land ownership of The Telegraph Group remains wide open City bankers insist in the face of reports that an Abu-Dhabi backed fund is close to taking control.

The group that also owns The Spectator has been up for sale for weeks after Lloyds Bank grew frustrated at a debt pile of £1 billion that owners the Barclays family had failed to pay down despite, reportedly, repeated promises.

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