publishing founded 2012 headquarters london united kingdom key people david montgomery chief executive officer rachel addison chief operating officer chief financial officer owner trinity mirror website www.localworld.co.uk local world ltd. is a large regional newspaper publisher in the uk that publishes around 100 print titles and more than 70 websites . it was formed in 2012 by david montgomery a former chief executive of trinity mirror to buy the daily mail and general trust s northcliffe media business and the yattendon group s iliffe newspaper group . 1 in october 2015 trinity mirror reached agreement with local world s other shareholders to buy the company . 2 contents 1 history 1.1 titles 1.2 ilife news and media titles 2 references 3 external links history edit 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 . 1 the purchase of the businesses was approved by the office of fair trading on 28 june 2013 . 3 in september 2015 daily mail and general trust confirmed it had entered into talks to sell local world to trinity mirror ; 4 the sale was completed the following month . 5 titles edit adscene advertiser series hull anun a z ashby and coalville mail ashford herald axholme herald bath chronicle bath times brentwood gazette series brides in cornwall bridgwater times bristol post bristol observer series burnham and highbridge times burza nehnutel nosti cannock & rugeley mercury carmarthen herald carmarthen journal cheadle post and times cheltenham news clevedon mercury cornish guardian cornwall today crawley news croydon advertiser croydon post deal and sandwich express derby telegraph derby express group dover express essex chronicle east grinstead courier east lindsey target east kent gazette exeter times faversham times express and echo folkestone herald the forester forest of dean and wye valley review gainsborough target gloucestershire echo great barr observer grimsby target grimsby telegraph herne bay times hythe herald hull daily mail isle of thanet gazette kingston informer kent and sussex courier leek post and times leicester mail group leicester mercury lichfield mercury series lincoln target lincolnshire echo llanelli star series loughborough mail mansfield and ashfield recorder medway news mendip messenger mid devon gazette series mid somerset series moorlands advertiser neath & port talbot courier news in focus north devon journal north staffs advertiser nottingham post nottingham recorder plymouth extra profesia retford times romney marsh herald scunthorpe target scunthorpe telegraph sevenoaks chronicle somerset guardian standard south cheshire advertiser series south lincs target group south wales evening post the sentinel staffordshire stroud life sutton coldfield observer surrey mirror swansea herald of wales tamworth herald tamworth leader taunton times thanet times the citizen gloucester the cornishman the herald plymouth torbay weekender series torquay herald express uttoxeter post and times venue magazine bristol walsall advertiser wellington weekly news the west briton west wiltshire advertiser western daily press bristol western gazette western morning news weston and worle news whitstable times wolds target yeovil times ilife news and media titles edit cambridge news hertfordshire mercury herts & essex observer harlow star the advertiser bedfordshire on sunday dunstable on sunday leighton buzzard on sunday luton on sunday onemk milton keynes burton mail staffordshire newsletter ashbourne news telegraph uttoxeter advertiser black country bugle your leek paper nuneaton news staffordshire life references edit a b daily mail sells regional newspapers to local world . bbc news . 21 november 2012 . retrieved 15 september 2015 . trinity mirror buys newspaper rival local world . bbc news . 28 october 2015 . retrieved 28 december 2015 . gavriel hollander 28 june 2013 . oft clearance for local world deal . press gazette . retrieved 28 june 2013 . soumithri mamidipudi 14 september 2015 . trinity mirror in talks to buy rival local world . reuters . retrieved 15 september 2015 . sweney mark 28 october 2015 . trinity mirror confirms 220m local world deal . the guardian . external links edit official website v t e local world daily newspapers bristol post burton mail cambridge news derby telegraph gloucester citizen gloucestershire echo grimsby telegraph hull daily mail leicester mercury nottingham post nuneaton news the plymouth herald south wales evening post the stoke sentinel western daily press western morning news paid weekly newspapers ashbourne news telegraph bath chronicle black country bugle brentwood gazette carmarthen journal cornish guardian the cornishman dorking advertiser essex chronicle exeter express & echo hertfordshire mercury herts & essex observer isle of thanet gazette kent and sussex courier leek post and times lincolnshire echo llanelli star mid devon gazette mid somerset series north devon journal retford times scunthorpe telegraph sevenoaks chronicle somerset guardian and standard staffordshire newsletter surrey mirror tamworth herald torquay herald express uttoxeter advertiser uttoxeter post and times west briton western gazette selected free papers bristol observer bedfordshire on sunday the croydon advertiser onemk milton keynes milton keynes citizen retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title local world & oldid 744299288 categories daily mail and general trustnorthcliffe medianewspaper companies of the united kingdom2012 establishments in englandhidden categories use dmy dates from july 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured 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