Last week, it was revealed that a locally-based consortium was believed to be close to tabling a bid to take over the Owls.

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's decision to withdraw a multi-billion-dollar bid to take over British Sky Broadcasting.

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In the Shropshire Premier League , Oswestry maintained their bid to take the title by recording a 79-run victory over Ludlow.

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Now comes Chief Executive Steve Ballmer's latest would-be Google-toppling tactic (after his failed bid to take over Yahoo): a sneak attack using the newly launched version of Microsoft's dominant Web browser, Internet Explorer.

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