Northern & Shell

Northern & Shell is a British publishing group, founded in December 1974 and owned since then by Richard Desmond. It published the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday, and the magazines OK!, New! and Star until these were sold to Trinity Mirror in February 2018. Northern & Shell also owned three entertainment television channels: Channel 5, 5* and 5USA until 2015. It owned Portland TV, which operates adult TV channels including Television X and Red Hot TV; the company sold Portland in April 2016.Northern & Shell has operated The Health Lottery in the UK since it launched in 2011.