Remnant Media was a British company which published a variety of

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sold a package of 45 titles, for about £20m, to Remnant Media in order to help reshape Desmond's image as part of his strategy to bid for ''

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became embroiled in controversy by lending Remnant Media £5 million towards the financing package.

Overview

The company's best known title was ''

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'' magazine. Other magazines published under its ''Fantasy Publications'' brand included ''Readers Wives'', ''Horny Housewives'', ''Mega Boobs'', ''Mothers-in-Law'', ''Big Ones'', ''Just 18'' and ''60 Plus''. Remnant Media also published the

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lifestyle magazine '' attitude'' until January 2007.

Administration

Remnant Media entered administration in late 2007. The assets of the company were soon sold to Trojan Publishing, itself soon acquired by Interactive Publishing. Trojan went into liquidation from 2010 and was dissolved by May 2013. In December 2005, Remnant Media created an offshoot publishing company SMD Publishing which was dissolved in July 2010. Publications under SMD included '' Hotdog magazine'' and '' Front magazine''.

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