Yattendon Group plc is a private British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 company owned by the Iliffe family

Baron Iliffe

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...

. It has interests in the UK and Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, and interests in newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 publishing, television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

, electronic media

Electronic media

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, marina

Marina

A marina 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 from freighters....

s and property

Property

Property is any physical or intangible entity that is owned by a person or jointly by a group of people or a legal entity like a corporation...

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Iliffe News and Media is a major part of Yattendon Group. It comprises:

• Iliffe Digital http://www.iliffedigital.co.uk/
• Cambridge Newspapers, owning the Cambridge Evening News
  Cambridge Evening News
  The Cambridge News is a British daily newspaper published each weekday and on Saturdays. It is distributed from its parent company Cambridge Newspapers Ltd's Milton base which was opened in 1991 as a print works, and became the Evening News main operational hub in 1998...
  
  
• Herts and Essex Newspapers http://www.herts-essex-news.co.uk/, owning the Hertfordshire Mercury, Our Time
• LSN Media (purchased 2005) http://www.lsnmedia.co.uk/, owning Bedfordshire on Sunday
  Bedfordshire on Sunday
  Bedfordshire on Sunday is a free local newspaper published in Bedfordshire, England.The newspaper is distributed as two editions, one covering Bedford borough and its surrounding villages, the other edition serves Central Bedfordshire...
  
  , Dunstable on Sunday, Leighton Buzzard on Sunday, Luton on Sunday, MK News
  MK News
  The MK News is a local weekly free newspaper based in Milton Keynes. MK News was launched in August 2002 and is delivered to homes across the Milton Keynes urban area and to commuters at Milton Keynes Central railway station. It is delivered on Wednesdays...
  
  
• Staffordshire Newspapers http://www.staffordshirenewspapers.co.uk, owning the Burton Mail
  Burton Mail
  The Burton 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-June 2011, it had an average daily circulation of 12,198...
  
  , Staffordshire Newsletter, Ashbourne News Telegraph, Uttoxeter Advertiser , Black Country Bugle, Your Leek Paper, Heartland Evening News, Staffordshire Life

The group also owns Marina Developments Limited http://www.mdlmarinas.co.uk/, a marina operator based in Southampton

Southampton

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, and the Vancouver

Vancouver

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-based Westminster Management Corporation, a commercial property organisation.

Yattendon Group owned the ITV

ITV

ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...

 franchise in the Channel Islands, Channel Television

Channel Television

Channel Television is a British television station which has served as an Independent Television contractor to the Channel Islands since 1962. It is based in Jersey...

 until November 2011, when the station was sold to ITV plc

ITV plc

ITV plc is a British media company that operates 12 of the 15 regional television broadcasters that make up the ITV Network, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom...

. http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/broadcasters/itv-completes-channel-television-takeover/5035027.article

Yattendon Estates, formed by the amalgamation of the Iliffe family properties at Yattendon

Yattendon

Yattendon is a village and civil parish northeast of Newbury, Berkshire. The M4 motorway passes about south of the village.-Geography:Yattendon stretches from Everington in the west to the hamlet of Burnt Hill in the east and the woodland just east of Yattendon Court, including Mumgrove Copse,...

 in 1955, became part of YIT in 2003.