Jan 9 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
The Times
- The chief executive of Lloyd's of London is set to move to Aon AON.N after six years in charge of the world's leading insurance market.
- British drugmaker GSK GSK.L is closing in on a $1 billion deal to buy a U.S. biotech company IDRx in the latest acquisition to bolster its drugs pipeline.
The Guardian
- Piers Morgan is leaving Rupert Murdoch's media empire to take control of his Uncensored YouTube channel, three years after signing a multimillion-pound deal focused on leading TalkTV, which shut its traditional TV channel last summer.
- The former Brexit negotiator Oliver Robbins has been appointed as the UK Foreign Office's most senior civil servant, taking over from Philip Barton.
The Telegraph
- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has hired the architect of Theresa May's soft Brexit plan as the most senior civil servant at the Foreign Office.
- Leon Black, co-founder and former CEO of Apollo Global Management is reportedly in talks to back the bid spearheaded by Dovid Efune, the publisher of the New York Sun website.
Sky News
- Britain's power grid operator has issued a call for electricity providers to bolster output this evening to avert the risk of blackouts.
- Britain's former City minister Bim Afolami is to become a non-executive director of HSBC HSBA.L - the bank he worked for before he embarked on a career in politics.
(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
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