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Can anyone help me find old copies of the Evening Standard?
Posted by OneFishTwoFish over 3 years ago
Last active over 3 years ago
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I’m trying to do some research for a dissertation on the role of local newspapers in last year’s local elections, but have come across a HUGE stumbling block: local libraries chuck the Standard and Metro away after 3-6 months, but the British Newspaper Library in Colindale don’t get them on file fo...
What's the worst headline of the week?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 3 years ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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A great game to play after work…. Find the most terror-inducing, Livingstone-hating, London-is-doomed headline from the week’s Standard. At the end of the week compare headlines and see who wins. Pointless but fun. Previous winning headlines include: “TONIGHT WE BOMB!” “LIVINGSTON...
Do we need a new generation of Evening Standard sellers?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 3 years ago
Last active over 3 years ago
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Has anyone noticed how old many of the Evening Standard sellers are? There’s an old woman by St Paul’s station who is all hunched over and looks about 70, and I’ve seen lots of others. My favourite is the guy that is (used to be?) by Camden station. He had been shouting Standard for so many years t...
A new journalistic low?
Posted by comradem over 3 years ago
Last active over 3 years ago
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Hey, who wants to see half a dozen photos of a very attractive woman? Oh yeah, she was just brutally murdered. The web monkeys over at thisislondon (London Lite and Evening Standard) think it’s somehow newsworthy to slap up not one, not two, not three four five but six photos of the woman who was murdered the ...
Choked goat - we want the truth
Posted by Galvatron over 3 years ago
Last active 3 months ago
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From today’s Standard… “Man widowed after goat dies A goat who married a Sudanese man has died after swallowing a plastic bag. The beast became famous and was named Rose after elders ordered Charles Tombe, who had been found having sex with her, to “marry” him in order to shame hi...
premiumBag a bargain at Foyles!
Offered by willster over 2 years ago for 1 kudos
Last active over 2 years ago
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Now I love a bargain, me. And I love books. And I only just discovered as an Eros Card holder – the Evening Standard loyalty programme thingy (not that I ever buy the Evening Standard, though), you can get books reviewed in the Standard for HALF price at Foyles, (and you cna buy them on line too) and a nice 10...
