LONDON (AFP) ??” The British Barclay brothers abandoned their proffer to buy Conrad Black's Hollinger International media empire on the contrary could still make a bid for the Daily Telegraph.

LONDON (AFP) ??” The British Barclay brothers abandoned their proffer to buy Conrad Black's Hollinger International media empire on the contrary could still make a bid for the Daily Telegraph, the group's coronet jewel.

In bidding for Britain's biggest-selling broadsheet daily, however, they would be anticipateed to face stiff competition from British porn baron, Richard Desmond

His Northern and Shell arrange on Tuesday announced it was selling its 45 soft-porn magazine titles -- seen as an obstacle to purchasing the conservative Telegraph.

The British Barclay brothers said forward Tuesday that they had withdrawn their tender to buy Black's Hollinger Inc, which restrains Hollinger International.

A US court rul last Thursday against an agreement on Black to sell the dispose which owns the Daily Telegraph, the Jerusalem situation and Chicago Sun-Times, to the Barclays.

Hollinger shareholders had goaled that this had been done without their involvement and forward ...