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Sunday Round Up: BBC, Aegon, Facebook, Google,

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

September 26, 2010 | 3 min read

A round up of some of the media and marketing stories making the Sunday newspapers.

Biscuit firm United Biscuits is in secret talks with a Shanghai company Bright Food over a £2 billion take-over deal, reveals The Sunday Times. The talks come as several other US based companies were looking to buy the British company.

BBC soaps Eastenders and Holby City face budget cuts, claims the Sunday Express as the organisation looks to slash £200 million off its drama bill. The cuts could affect actors fees and the amount of outdoor, location filming being done for the long running dramas and could mean the end for programmes such as Doctors, the paper says.

The Mail on Sunday reports that search engine giant Google had been selling advertising space on the message board on which two people met and arranged a suicide pact. The paper says that Google has admitted to selling advertising space next to the board, on which the couple arranged to gar themselves in a car. The father of one of the two, who had never met ahead of the act, has called for the message board to be closed.

The Telegraph features a report on a new HP printer which ‘talks’ directly to mobile devices and does not need a computer at all, working remotely. The ePrint comes with an email address which allows documents to be emailed to the printer ready to be printed out.

Scotland on Sunday reports that the economic contribution of tourism to Scotland has been ‘grossly underestimated’ with the financial benefit possibly double what has been reported, according to Deloitte.

The report claims that the total contribution could be worth around £11.1 billion.

Meanwhile, the same paper says that financial company Aegon will also reveal who will be affected by £80 million of cuts that it plans to make at some stage this week. The budget cuts could see the loss of up to 600 jobs in Edinburgh, and has already seen marketing boss Jayne Ponzio leave, as revealed by The Drum.

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