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Former Observer editors voice ‘profound concern’ over proposed sale of title

Roger Alton, John Mulholland and Will Hutton are latest to round on The Scott Trust.

By Dominic Ponsford

Three former Observer editors have written to the Scott Trust expressing their “profound concern” over the proposed sale of the newspaper to Tortoise Media.

Will Hutton, Roger Alton and John Mulholland have together racked up 20 years editing the UK’s oldest Sunday newspaper.

They claim that safeguards about the Trust’s commitment to The Observer, made when it was bought in 1993, “are plainly being abrogated”.

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