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,

marina A marina (from Spanish , Portuguese and Italian : "related to the sea") is a dock or basin with moorings and supplies for yachts and small boats. A marina differs from a port in that a marina does not handle large passenger ships or cargo ...

s and local newspaper printing and publishing. It is named after the village of

Yattendon Yattendon is a village and civil parish northeast of Newbury, Berkshire, Newbury in the county of Berkshire, England. The M4 motorway passes through the fields of the village which lie south and below the elevations of its nucleated village, c ...

in Berkshire.

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

Channel Television ITV Channel Television, previously Channel Television, is a British television station which has served as the ITV (TV network), ITV contractor for the Channel Islands since 1962. It is based in Jersey and broadcasts regional programmes for i ...

, 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 Milton base. In the period December 2010 – June 2011 it had an average daily c ...

'', into the

Trinity Mirror Reach plc (known as Trinity Mirror between 1999 and 2018) is a British newspaper, magazine and digital publisher. It is one of the UK's biggest newspaper groups, publishing 240 regional papers in addition to the national ''Daily Mirror'', '' ...

Group after failing to return the title following the Local World venture. Yattendon's printing press in Milton, Cambridgeshire produces 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 titles: * ''Bourne Local'' * ''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, Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, claims to be "Britain's oldest cont ...

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