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Do we need a new generation of Evening Standard sellers?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active over 2 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...
Have you read the news today?
Posted by whenthiswasfields about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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Have any real people actually written to Metro? It’s letters page seems to have turned into the Daily Mail recently – homeless (they earn more than we do you know), immigrants (see previous), the disabled (aren’t they brave), gay and asian policemen (aren’t they disgusting) all ge...
Anybody else a fan of crappy local news?
Posted by whenthiswasfields about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
8 responses
I love local newspaper headlines, and the hilariously inconsequential and parochial stories they often introduce. In my hometown rag, the Stamford Mercury (“Britain’s Oldest Newspaper!”), it’s always silly season – one legendary report headed “Toaster Fire in Drift Road” tel...
Freesheets two the Wind?
Posted by Robo about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
1 response
You can’t count, can you? Unless Simon Cowell on a jet ski is such a stunning addition to the “news” that you counted it twice. Which is plausible, I suppose.
Demise of the free sheets, are we bothered?
Posted by archetype about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
19 responses
If the freesheets are forced off the streets of central London (as not enough copies are recycled) would anyone miss them? Actually I have a sneaky fondness for the trashiness of the one that isn’t the Lite, and having a regular lesbian columnist is refreshing at least
Where do you go to recouperate on a Sunday?
Posted by Juvey about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
12 responses
You’ve been out for the bender of all benders on Saturday night, but finished at a reasonable enough time so that you fancy a recouperating and soul-preserving Sunday lunch. This will preferably be in a pub somewhere. Where do you go? Recommendations please for decent places that will look after your shrivelle...
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