News UK 16 September 2014 by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson. Times Newspapers Limited publishes the compact daily newspaper "The Times" and the broadsheet "The Sunday Times". Times Newspapers was formed in 1967 when The Thomson Corporation purchased "The Times" from the Astor family and merged it with "The Sunday Times", which it had owned since 1959. The company was purchased by Murdoch's News International in February 1981. The acquisition followed an intense 21 days of negotiations with the print unions conducted by John Collier and Bill O'Neill. "The Times Literary Supplement", "Times Educational Supplement" and "Times Higher Education Supplement" were
News UK UK. News UK's main competitor is DMG Media, which is in turn owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. Between 1987 and 1995, News International owned, through its subsidiary News (UK) Ltd, "Today", the first UK national newspaper to be printed in colour. All of News International's newspapers (with the exception of "The London Paper", launched in 2006) were founded by other owners, in some cases hundreds of years ago. In October 2005 News International sold TSL Education, publishers of "Times Higher Education", "Times Educational Supplement", and other education titles, for £235m ($415m). "The Times Literary Supplement", previously part