PRESS DIGEST- Financial Times - Jan. 15

Jan 15 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

Headlines

- Six held over suspected plot to disrupt London Stock Exchange opening

- UK officials tried to block Fujitsu from government contracts in 2010s

- Labour's John Hutton to chair new PFI liaison body

- Five migrants die in icy waters as English Channel crossings resume

Overview

- British police on Sunday arrested six people who are members of the Palestine Action protest group as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to disrupt the London Stock Exchange.

- The British government tried to block Japanese software company Fujitsu implicated in the Post Office scandal from new public IT contracts in the early 2010s in a drive nicknamed "Project Sushi".

- Britain's opposition Labour Party's Lord John Hutton will start on Monday as chair of a new body that will represent investors in private finance initiative partnerships in the UK, hundreds of which are coming to an end over the next three years.

- Five migrants trying to cross the Channel to Britain died in French waters in the early hours of Sunday.

(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)