Trade digest

CABAL COMMUNI - CATIONS is open to take - over offers of morethan £20 million, Andy Sut - diffe , the managing direc - tor , has told Press Ga - zette . Rumours persist , that some of its maga - - zines — which include. Good Health mdJReal Homes — could go to Fu - ture Publishing or IPC. v Meanwhile, the editor of f Cabal's Pro Cycling .has -? resigned, angry about al-. leged late payments ,: to ^ contributors, \ - •' : y. B THE LAST ITV com- / mercial of the millenni - um will be for Guinness, and the first in 2000 for Bell's whisjcy, reports Campaign. But ' Toyota will have the very last - word of 1999 bn'lTyVas sponsor of its new year .programming. .

THE AUDIT Bureau of Circulations is review - ing procedures after the disclosure that circula - tion figures for some of Trinity Mirror's regional titles were inflated. Mar - keting says the system may have to be made more robust . BBC1 HAS EDGED ahead of ITV in the battle ' of the crinolines , reports Broadcast. Last Sunday Wives and Daughters,. at - tracted 7.9 million view - ers , against 7.6 million for ITV's Oliver Twist. CHANGING FACES: Us Howell/ executive vice-president of Flex - tech , leaves to form her own company (Broad - cast ). Fru Hazlitt from Capital Radio to be sales director for Yahoo Eu - rope (Media Week). Shei - la Ableman quits as edito - rial director of BBC Worldwide to become an agent (The Bookseller).