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As Viscount Rothermere, proprietor of the Daily Mail, announces he& #39;s buying the & #39;i& #39; newspaper, a reminder that he also owns c5,000 acres of Dorset, some via a Jersey-based company, and got £57,000 in public farm subsidies last year... (1/?) https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/nov/29/daily-mail-owner-buys-the-i-newspaper">https://www.theguardian.com/media/201...
(2/?) Viscount Rothermere - Jonathan Harmsworth - owns Ferne Park, an imposing stately pile in Dorset (pictured). Some of the parkland is registered to & #39;Harmsworth Trust Company (PTC) Ltd& #39;, based in the British Virgin Islands:
(3/?) As the DEFRA farm payments website shows, "Lord Rothermere t/a Ferne Park Estate" received £57k in farm subsidies in 2018 (search here: http://www.cap-payments.defra.gov.uk/SearchResults.aspx).">https://www.cap-payments.defra.gov.uk/SearchRes... He got £50k in 2017.
(4/?) Looking on Companies House for & #39;The Fourth Viscount Rothermere& #39;, you can see he& #39;s the director of various companies: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/Aw2NGqF8MvDUlKaDeOOJaFXawQ0/appointments
Besides">https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/... the Daily Mail firms, there& #39;s this one - Bryanston (RFE) Ltd: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09586323">https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/0...
Besides">https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/... the Daily Mail firms, there& #39;s this one - Bryanston (RFE) Ltd: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09586323">https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/0...
(5/?) In 2015, Viscount Rothermere bought the 4,700-acre Bryanston Estate from the Crown Estate for an undisclosed sum: https://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/en-gb/media-and-insights/news/2015-the-crown-estate-sells-bryanston-estate/
It">https://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/en-gb/med... was registered to Bryanston (RFE) Ltd; here& #39;s a map of it:
It">https://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/en-gb/med... was registered to Bryanston (RFE) Ltd; here& #39;s a map of it:
(6/?) Whilst Bryanston (RFE) Ltd& #39;s registered address is in the UK, it& #39;s intriguing that several of its Persons with Significant Control have correspondence addresses in Jersey (though not the Viscount himself): https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09586323/persons-with-significant-control">https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/0...
(7/?) Examination of Bryanston (RFE) Ltd& #39;s 2018 accounts reveals it is "a joint venture between trusts held for the benefit of the Rothermere family. The immediate shareholders are... both incorporated in Jersey." https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09586323/filing-history">https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/0...
(8/?) Bryanston (RFE) Ltd& #39;s registered charge for acquiring the Bryanston Estate off the Crown also shows, intriguingly, that it acquired some unregistered land. I& #39;ve not seen this before; usually, any land that changes hands should become registered.
(9/?) There is, it so happens, a big chunk of unregistered land right next to the edge of the Bryanston Estate - this bit at Tunworth (shown in orange) (from http://unregistered.whoownsengland.org/ )">https://unregistered.whoownsengland.org/">... -
