OneMK (formerly ''MK News'') was a local weekly free

newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...

and

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service, based in

Milton Keynes Milton Keynes ( ) is a city and the largest settlement in Buckinghamshire, England, about north-west of London. At the 2021 Census, the population of its urban area was over . The River Great Ouse forms its northern boundary; a tributary ...

. ''MK News'' launched in August 2002 and was delivered to homes across the

Milton Keynes urban area The Milton Keynes urban area or Milton Keynes Built-up Area is a designation established by the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics. Milton Keynes has no statutory boundary: the 1967 designated area only determined the area assi ...

and to commuters at

Milton Keynes Central railway station Milton Keynes Central railway station serves Central Milton Keynes and the surrounding area of Milton Keynes, England. The station is located on the West Coast Main Line about northwest of London. The station is served by Avanti West Coast int ...

. It re-branded itself to ''OneMK'' in early 2016 before its owners, Trinity Mirror, closed the publication in October 2016.Trinity Mirror closes newspapers in Milton Keynes, Luton and Northampton as Local World purge continues

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, 19 October 2016 The paper was delivered on Wednesdays (competing with the

Milton Keynes Citizen The Milton Keynes Citizen is the only freely distributed local newspaper in Milton Keynes. The newspaper is part of JPIMedia. The ''MK Citizen'' was founded by Bill Alder and Jerry West on 1 October 1981 and they sold to EMAP in 1987 and the pu ...

, which is distributed free on Thursdays). The newspaper claimed an audited adult readership of 130,000.

OneMK online

OneMK.co.uk (formerly

MKWeb ''This article describes a service that has been replaced. The information is retained here for archival and continuity reasons. For the current (as of 2016) service, see OneMK.'' The offices of MKWeb MKWeb was the portal operated by Iliffe News ...

) was the website counterpart to OneMK, the newspaper. Articles that appeared in the paper also appeared online at onemk.co.uk, along with extra daily news reports that may not have featured in the weekly newspapers.

Ownership

OneMK was 'published and originated by a division of

Local World Local World Holdings Ltd. was a large regional newspaper publisher in the UK that published around 100 print titles and more than 70 websites. It was formed in 2012 by David Montgomery, a former chief executive of Trinity Mirror, to buy the Dai ...

. In 2012, Local World acquired MK News owner

Iliffe News and Media Yattendon Group plc (formerly Yattendon Investment Trust) is a British-based private company owned by the Iliffe family. It has interests in Vancouver, Seattle, agriculture, marinas and local newspaper printing and publishing. Property Yattend ...

from

Yattendon Group Yattendon Group plc (formerly Yattendon Investment Trust) is a British-based private company owned by the Iliffe family. It has interests in Vancouver, Seattle, agriculture, marinas and local newspaper printing and publishing. Property Yattendo ...

.Daily Mail sells regional newspapers to Local World
BBC News, 21 November 2012 In November 2016, Local World became part of Trinity Mirror.

References

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