James Mitchell

News International will close its loss-making News Magazines unit, publisher of the SkyMag customer title, and is likely to appoint a chief marketing officer across its four newspaper titles.

Openly gay journalist and broadcaster David Self - who famously wrote the questions for ITV’s Sale of the Century and who took part in one of the country’s first civil ceremonies for gay couples - has died at his Fenland home.

US soldiers who killed a Reuters journalist in Iraq acted within military rules, but the Army’s probe of the incident was tainted by its failure to preserve evidence, a Pentagon investigation said on Monday.