OneMK (formerly ''MK News'') was a local weekly free

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and online news service, based in

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. ''MK News'' launched in August 2002 and was delivered to homes across the Milton Keynes urban area and to commuters at

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. It re-branded itself to ''OneMK'' in early 2016 before its owners,

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'', '' ...

, closed the publication in October 2016.Trinity Mirror closes newspapers in Milton Keynes, Luton and Northampton as Local World purge continues

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, 19 October 2016 The paper was delivered on Wednesdays (competing with the

Milton Keynes Citizen The ''Milton Keynes Citizen'' is the only freely distributed local newspaper in Milton Keynes. The newspaper is owned by National World. The ''MK Citizen'' was founded by Bill Alder and 1981 and they sold to EMAP in 1987 and the purchase was c ...

, which is distributed free on Thursdays). The newspaper claimed an audited adult readership of 130,000.

OneMK online

The offices of MKWeb OneMK.co.uk (formerly MKWeb) was the website counterpart to OneMK, the newspaper. Articles that appeared in the paper also appeared online at onemk.co.uk, along with extra daily news reports that may not have featured in the weekly newspapers. MKWeb was the portal operated by Iliffe News and Media partially on behalf of

Milton Keynes Council Milton Keynes City Council is the local authority for the City of Milton Keynes, a local government district in Buckinghamshire, England. The council was established in 1974 as Milton Keynes Borough Council. Since 1997 it has been a unitary au ...

and accordingly described itself as the official website for Milton Keynes and North Bucks. The site was run under varying management from 2002. In June 2006, MKWeb was awarded the contract to deliver MK Council's web services for the following 5 years with an option for the Council to extend this for a further 3 years. The agreement was that MKWeb would develop and support two websites, www.milton-keynes.gov.uk and www.mkweb.co.uk, and present them as a single city portal. In 2007, MKWeb’s parent company, Apollo Digital Developments Ltd, was bought by the Iliffe News and Media group.

Ownership

OneMK was 'published and originated by a division of

Local World Local World Holdings Ltd. was a large regional newspaper publisher 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 Reach plc, Trinity Mirror, to b ...

. In 2012, Local World acquired MK News owner Iliffe News and Media from Yattendon Group.Daily Mail sells regional newspapers to Local World
BBC News, 21 November 2012 In November 2016, Local World became part of Trinity Mirror.

References

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