Yattendon Group plc (formerly Yattendon Investment Trust) is a British-based private company owned by the

Iliffe family Baron Iliffe, of Yattendon in the County of Berkshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1933 for the newspaper magnate Sir Edward Iliffe. For many years the family controlled newspapers in Birmingham and Coventry ...

. It has interests in Vancouver, Seattle, agriculture,

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s and local newspaper printing and publishing.

Property

Yattendon owns

s via its subsidiary MDL Marinas. It also owns large areas of land in West Berkshire.

Media

Yattendon previously owned Channel Television, and sold this to ITV plc in 2011.

Iliffe Media

Iliffe Media publishes 38 local newspapers, magazines, KMFM radio stations and associated online products. In 2016, the Iliffe family launched a new weekly newspaper and associated media under the banner of the ''Cambridge Independent'' following the absorption of its former title, the ''

Cambridge News The ''Cambridge News'' (formerly the ''Cambridge Evening News'') is a British daily newspaper. Published each weekday and on Saturdays, it is distributed from its Waterbeach base. In the period December 2010 – June 2011 it had an average dail ...

'', into the Trinity Mirror Group after failing to return the title following the Local World venture. This publication quickly attained two newspaper awards, adopting a positive stance to news and strong local content printed on a higher grade paper and associated investment online. Yattendon's printing press in Milton, Cambridgeshire continues to produce full colour newspapers for a wide range of clients.

Acquisitions

In January 2017, Yattendon bought 13 newspapers in Lincolnshire and East Anglia from

Johnston Press Johnston Press plc was a multimedia company founded in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1767. Its flagship titles included UK-national newspaper the '' i'', ''The Scotsman'', the ''Yorkshire Post'', the ''Falkirk Herald'', and Belfast's ''The News Letter'' ...

. These include some very long established papers: * ''Bury Free Press'' * '' Diss Express'' * ''Fenland Citizen'' * ''Grantham Journal'' * ''Haverhill Echo'' * ''Lincolnshire Free Press'' * '' Lynn News'' * ''Newmarket Journal'' * ''Rutland Times'' * ''Spalding Guardian'' * ''Suffolk Free Press'' * ''

Stamford Mercury The ''Stamford Mercury'' (also the ''Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury'', the ''Rutland and Stamford Mercury'', and the ''Rutland Mercury'') based in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, claims to be "Britain's oldest continuously published news ...

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