Attempted Takeover Of Bristol Evening Post Plc

EDM number 760 in 1989-90, proposed by Jonathan Sayeed on 20/03/1990.

That this House expresses its deep concern that Mr David Sullivan, a newspaper publisher who has served a prison sentence on charges relating to prostitution and who has been convicted for sending obscene material through the post, should be seeking to take a controlling interest in the Bristol Evening Post plc; and urges the Monopolies and Mergers Commission to take into account the importance of a locally based newspaper group maintaining its independence from such an unsavoury influence and to recommend rejection of his proposals.

This motion has been ammended, see 1413A1.

This motion has been signed by a total of 30 MPs.