A Mirror-Express merger would once have been huge. Now it’s just hugely depressing

Fifty years ago the two titles sold nine million copies a day between them. That’s fallen to just over a million today. And this deal just delays the inevitableThe historically mighty Mirror Group and the equally mighty Express Group announce that they’re in takeover-cum-merger talks. The shades of Cecil King and Lord Beaverbrook shimmer with portent. It would have been a big story 50 years ago.Back then the Daily Mirror sold 5.1m copies a day. Now that’s 733,000. Back the