Local World Holdings Ltd. was a large regional newspaper

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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 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'', '' ...

, to buy the

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Northcliffe Media Northcliffe Media (formerly Northcliffe Newspapers Group) was a large regional newspaper publisher in the UK and Central and Eastern Europe. In 2012 the company was sold by Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) to a newly formed company, Local Worl ...

business, and the

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. It is named after ...

's Iliffe newspaper group. In October 2015 Trinity Mirror, now

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, bought the company. The sale was completed on 13 November 2015. In April 2017 the Local World website started redirecting to the Trinity Mirror website.

History

Local World was established in 2012 by David Montgomery, in order to purchase local newspaper businesses. In November 2012, it was announced that it would purchase Northcliffe Media from Daily Mail and General Trust, and separately, the Iliffe newspaper group from the Yattendon Group. The purchase of the businesses was approved by the

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on 28 June 2013. In September 2015, Daily Mail and General Trust confirmed it had entered into talks to sell Local World to

; the sale was completed the following month.

Titles

Local World

Iliffe News and Media titles

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'' *''

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'' *'' Herts & Essex Observer'' *'' Harlow Star'' *''The Advertiser'' *''

Bedfordshire on Sunday ''Bedfordshire on Sunday'' (BoS) was a free local newspaper published in Bedfordshire, England. It was distributed as two editions, one covering the Borough of Bedford, the other edition serves Central Bedfordshire. The gross distribution was ar ...

'' *''Dunstable on Sunday'' *''Leighton Buzzard on Sunday'' *''Luton on Sunday'' *''

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'' (Milton Keynes) *''

Burton Mail The ''Burton Mail'' (formerly the ''Burton Daily Mail'') is a British daily newspaper published each weekday and on Saturdays. It covers the East Staffordshire, South Derbyshire and North West Leicestershire areas. In the period December 2010 t ...

'' *''Staffordshire Newsletter'' *''Ashbourne News Telegraph'' *''Uttoxeter Advertiser'' *''

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'' *''Your Leek Paper'' *''

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'' *''Staffordshire Life''

Websites

*Kent Live

References

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