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,

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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

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Media

Yattendon previously owned

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, 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 dai ...

'', 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

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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 The ''Lynn News'' is published by Iliffe Media and appears each Tuesday and Friday in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. It was previously owned by Johnston Press, but in January 2017 it was bought by Iliffe Media, along with 12 other titles for £17 ...

'' * ''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 new ...

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