It’s 8.15 on Friday morning and Malcolm Denmark has just got into a taxi on his way to Heathrow airport when he takes a call from The Currency, made by prior arrangement. It’s five and a half years since we last spoke. How is he? “Same as ever,” he deadpans, “overworked and underpaid”. He’s on his way to Ireland, where he is by far the biggest owner of local newspapers and websites. As related in Part 2, Denmark bought most of those titles from Johnston Press in a 2014 fire sale, for four per cent of what they’d been sold for…

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