Details of Whitbread's plans to buy Allied's pubs - plus the balance in a jointly-owned off-licence operation and a 25percentnt stake in Britvic - are expected to be announced by this week.
Their commonplace use in cinematography has led to operators requiring licences for operation within populated areas, with accidents involving drone crashes highlighting the dangers.
BBC management pledged today to review its licence fee collection operation in light of the criticism from the BBC Trust.
It is not the only revolution being overseen by Horrocks, the 54-year-old former editor of Newsnight and Panorama, as his organisation is about to become the first BBC licence fee-funded operation to take advertising and sponsorship.
He also oversaw moves to make the World Service the BBC's first licence fee-funded operation to take advertising and sponsorship, a change that proved contentious and prompted accusations of a "facile" rush to commercialism.
The running of BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial subsidiary, is also expected to be brought closer to the broadcaster's main licence fee-funded operation, with changes which will effectively remove its separate board.
He was speaking as the shadow culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, responded to today's BBC Trust report on the BBC's licence fee collection operation by saying it has gone "abysmally wrong" with heavy-handed tactics that have damaged the corporation's reputation.
In its report published today on TV Licensing, the corporation's licence fee collection operation, the majority of which is contracted out to Capita Business Services, the trust said that feedback from market research into the tone of payment reminder letters sent to members of the public was that they were "too harsh".
It duly did so on February 9th, giving its first-ever combined construction and operation licences to the Atlanta-based Southern Company to build two new reactors at Plant Vogtle, in eastern Georgia, where they will join two existing reactors that have been in operation for 25 and 23 years.
These included potential offers that could be made if an auction system was to be used to allocate operation licences over specific routes as well as the use and running of stations.
Rather than join the party, Hackney council revoked the club's licence following an undercover operation into drug dealing at the venue.
