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 . For many years the family controlled newspapers in Birmingham and Coventry , including the Birmingham Post , the Birmingham Mail and the Coventry Evening Telegraph , and were also part owners of The Daily Telegraph . The first Baron also represented Tamworth in Parliament as a Conservative .
3-837: 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 the village of Yattendon in Berkshire. Yattendon owns marinas via its subsidiary MDL Marinas. It also owns large areas of land in West Berkshire . Yattendon previously owned Channel Television , and sold this to ITV plc in 2011. Iliffe Media publishes 38 local newspapers, magazines, KMFM radio stations and associated online products. In 2016,
6-652: A media company in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Iliffe family As of 2010 , the title is held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his uncle in 1996. He is the current Commodore of The Royal Yacht Squadron of Cowes, Isle of Wight. Lord Iliffe and the rest of the Iliffe family holds (2006) an estimated fortune (according to the Sunday Times Rich List ) of £200m. The family surname and
9-962: 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 , into the Trinity 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. In January 2017, Yattendon bought 13 newspapers in Lincolnshire and East Anglia from Johnston Press . These include some very long established titles: This article about
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