7 JULY 1984, Page 21

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he next big offer of shares for sale looks I like Mirror Group Newspapers (Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and others) — being spun off by its owner, Reed International. Mirror, like Enterprise, has come to seem rather more difficult as the deadline nears. The stake in Reuter is not worth as much as the more fanciful projections made it, and hopes for the trading profits of the papers are being scaled down. So will some bold spirit emulate RTZ, and put in for half the shares on offer, or even for all of them? Which merchant banker will be first to seize the telephone and ('We have an idea which might interest you, Sir') ring up Robert Maxwell?