Les Hinton might have severed all professional ties with his great friend Rupert Murdoch, but now, it seems, he will be living close enough to pop round to comfort the ageing media baron who is currently going through a third divorce. Hinton, the former chief executive of News International and Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal, has bought a new Manhattan apartment on Fifth Avenue, just four blocks away from Murdoch, according to city records. Both apartment blocks are classified as "co-ops", a word not normally associated with Murdoch's businesses.
