Why Trinity Mirror's renewed merger talks with Express Newspapers are more likely to succeed this time around

The long-running ‘on-off’ courtship of Richard Desmond’s Express newspaper arm by Trinity Mirror seems to be back on again. And this time, according to insiders, there is a more realistic chance of a deal being struck.
The initiative was launched by Trinity Mirror – Britain’s biggest publisher of local newspapers as well as the Daily and Sunday Mirror and Sunday People national titles – as part of chairman Simon Fox’s declared ambition to try and expand