Daily Mail

SKY DEAL PROBE

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THE Government is seeking further advice from Ofcom on Rupert Murdoch’s £11.7bn swoop for Sky after receiving ‘new evidence and comments’.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport wrote to the communicat­ions regulator asking for extra input before Culture Secretary Karen Bradley decides whether the proposed tie-up should face an in-depth investigat­ion.

Bradley said last month that she was ‘still minded’ to refer the takeover to the Competitio­n and Markets Authority, following a report by Ofcom flagging ‘public interest concerns’ surroundin­g media plurality.

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