Jan 9 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on

the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not

verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

The Times

- The chief executive of Lloyd's of London is set to move to

Aon after six years in charge of the world's leading

insurance market.

- British drugmaker GSK is closing in on a $1

billion deal to buy a U.S. biotech company IDRx in the latest

acquisition to bolster its drugs pipeline.

The Guardian

- Piers Morgan is leaving Rupert Murdoch's media empire to

take control of his Uncensored YouTube channel, three years

after signing a multimillion-pound deal focused on leading

TalkTV, which shut its traditional TV channel last summer.

- The former Brexit negotiator Oliver Robbins has been

appointed as the UK Foreign Office's most senior civil servant,

taking over from Philip Barton.

The Telegraph

- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has hired the

architect of Theresa May's soft Brexit plan as the most senior

civil servant at the Foreign Office.

- Leon Black, co-founder and former CEO of Apollo Global

Management is reportedly in talks to back the bid spearheaded by

Dovid Efune, the publisher of the New York Sun website.

Sky News

- Britain's power grid operator has issued a call for

electricity providers to bolster output this evening to avert

the risk of blackouts.

- Britain's former City minister Bim Afolami is to become a

non-executive director of HSBC ( HSBC ) - the bank he worked for

before he embarked on a career in politics.

(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)