Welcome back Simon
I'm a big fan of .co.uk generics, hope you have a super plan for London.co.uk if that's still owned by you - WHAT A NAME WOW, I mean that's just insane in terms of potential.
I was really critical 13 years ago - there are some guys on here done some amazing things with geo generics (wrexham.com being one - "Read 1,237,621 times in last 30 days, and 98,619,423 times since we started in 2011".)
The market for geo niche online newspaper/magazines is strong now and getting more so, themanc.com being a new LadBible type super local one aimed at clickrates and traffic.
I'd honestly reach out to some of these younger generation of editors and writers and you'd do very well indeed. Best of luck with it all.