"News International, owner of free daily thelondonpaper, and Associated Newspapers (London Lite) are participating in a ‘phoney’ expansion was in the UK. Both companies are trademarking their brands and registering Internet domain names in several are

"As newspaper readership stagnates in the US and Europe, India’s newspapers are enjoying the kind of golden age the US saw at the end of the 19th century. These prospects are luring in international groups."

"British media organisations are besieging the Indian market, seeking growth that is hard to find at home."

"There are 10 cases listed in the legal diary of the High Court involving Associated Newspapers (Ireland) Ltd. — the Irish offshoot of Lord Rothermere’s British media empire."

"Atkins solicitors has scored substantial damages for the former prime minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie Booth QC of Matrix chambers. The firm managed to settle a privacy complaint for the Blairs against Associated Newspapers…"

"Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Irish Mail on Sunday and Irish Daily Mail, are to pay €225,000 in damages and costs to former Smart Telecom chief Oisin Fanning after he won his libel action last week."

Robert Andrews provides the context to Martin Clarke’s apparent u-turn in Media Week: "while we will concentrate on growing our UK readership for the moment, we would be foolish not to take advantage of our following overseas"

"The Daily Mail and General Trust has become the latest company to brush off fears that turmoil in the financial markets will hit its advertising revenues."

"Sources at [Associated Newspapers] say plans are in place to take the Standard further upmarket and distinguish it more clearly from its free siblings."

It’s nice to see online metrics aren’t the only ones that provoke rows. Associated and News International are squabbling over teh sample size used by the National Readership Survey for their london freesheets.

"The publishing group has tasked digital agency Conchango with developing new ways of accessing news content throughout titles including, The Daily Mail and The Evening Standard’s websites, in a deal believed to be worth £1m."

"Associated Newspapers is to increase the distribution of its free newspaper Metro by 250,000 copies from the beginning of October."

"Medialab, the company which publishes the Metro newspaper in Sussex, has gone bust. All 20 staff … have been made redundant after the firm went into voluntary liquidation."

Associated Northcliffe Digital is standardising the way it measures and analyses web traffic across its 113 sites.