Richard Desmond poised to sell Express and Star to Trinity Mirror

Fears for media plurality as potential £130m deal for Express and Star papers plus magazines such as OK! signals exit of one of sector’s most ruthless operatorsBillionaire Richard Desmond is poised to sell his Express and Star newspapers and celebrity magazine OK! in a £130m deal, ending a 43-year publishing career that had its roots in music and pornographic magazines.Trinity Mirror, the publisher of the Labour-supporting Daily and Sunday Mirror titles has made an offer to tak