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I get two different ones each week in Croydon.
Emma | 23.03.06 - 7:45 a.m. | #
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I also get 2. Are there none for your area or does your local paperboy/girl just happens to miss out your box?
stroppycow | Homepage | 23.03.06 - 8:18 a.m. | #
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none here
Phin | 23.03.06 - 8:50 a.m. | #
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Not sure why you would want one. In my experience, the local free newspaper comprises adverts sandwiched between a couple of stories that appeared in the previous week's paid-for local newspaper. Hardly "news".
There can also be a problem with getting people to deliver them and accessing blocks of flats with security doors etc.
31Fahrenheit | 23.03.06 - 9:05 a.m. | #
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I get 3 per week! And sometimes the local delivery person (think it's a schoolkid) just dumps a load that he/she can't be bothered to deliver in my wheelybin. Whilst I agree with you re being in touch with the ordinary and mundane in the immediate neighbourhood(s), I think I'm overdosed on it. And half of each weeks paper is estate agents and houses for sale. Which I suppose is a great way of keeping in touch with house prices. The good news is that most of the paper gets used as "wrap" for organic kitchen waste or kids papier mache stuff. You should call up your local paper distribution number and ask them to deliver you for free. I once called them up to stop them dumping in my wheelybin, and they are usually quite responsive.
Jag | Homepage | 23.03.06 - 9:08 a.m. | #
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By the way - the reason I get 3 of them is because I live metres away from the border of London Boroughs Of Harrow and Brent. So I get a few from either side.
Jag | Homepage | 23.03.06 - 9:16 a.m. | #
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Do you not get East End Life put through your door? Have a look at http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/d...ta
ews/
eel.cfm
A quality rag - even the bad news is given a positive spin.
Anonymous | 23.03.06 - 9:34 a.m. | #
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I used to get a fantastic free paper when I lived in East Finchley. http://www.the-archer.co.uk/ The Archer had decent stories and interesting news items. I'm sure DG would love it.
Where I now live in Southwark, I don't get a free paper delivered but all the local news and gossip comes from the local community site - http://www.london-se1.co.uk/ Perhaps DG could set up something similar for Bow?
Michael | 23.03.06 - 9:36 a.m. | #
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two in waltham forest. both go straight in the bin.
er, recycling bin that is.
dave | Homepage | 23.03.06 - 9:39 a.m. | #
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Everyone else in the village gets 2. Because we live in a hamlet 2 miles from the village, no-one wants to deliver out here, so we don't.
Last time I moaned to the best one I was told they'd send it to me - for £72 a year(!!), or I could drive 8.2 miles each way to their town office and pick it up for nothing. I'm surprised they didn't print my response... (actually, thinking about it... I'm not...).
Blue Witch | Homepage | 23.03.06 - 9:48 a.m. | #
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"Advertiser" is an awesome name for a "newspaper". It's like, "Eh, who are we kidding?"
hmmm | 23.03.06 - 10:16 a.m. | #
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I get free magazines every couple of months. They're mostly estate agent advertising, but there is *some* decent content to them. And they're pretty. 
No papers aside from Ken's occasional updates, though. I can't say that I miss them.
Chz | Homepage | 23.03.06 - 10:21 a.m. | #
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We had some local free paper in Bounds Green (The Haringey Advertiser, maybe? It was so terrible I used to throw it in the recycling bin as soon as it arrived) and here we get the Camden New Journal, which isn't quite so bad.
And now you've made me start browsing http://www.mediauk.com
ewspapers to see what other local papers I might be able to find.
Storme | Homepage | 23.03.06 - 10:23 a.m. | #
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We used to get the Wanstead and Woodford Guardian free, and then we had the Yellow Advertiser for a while (no news really, but good for housing and stuff). Now we only get the council-sponsored 'Redbridge Now', which only comes every month anyway.
Best place for freesheets? Try the local library! Thursday morning at Wanstead is an unholy scrum for the Guardian and the Ilford Recorder, let me tell you...
chloe | Homepage | 23.03.06 - 11:00 a.m. | #
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Here on the outskirts of London we get the Barnet Press and the Finchley Times. I'm sure you have a local freesheet, it's probably a distribution problem. Give them stick, your house is probably included in their ABC FIGURES.
Chairwoman of the bored | Homepage | 23.03.06 - 11:06 a.m. | #
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just been onto the local paper website for St John's Wood http://www.woodandvale.co.uk/whatson/
the most interesting thing reported was that 2 UFOs were sighted in 2004...
k | 23.03.06 - 11:10 a.m. | #
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Weymouth and Portland Advertiser, which gets chucked over our wall on a Friday and is merely a regurgitation of stories from the Dorset Echo, and loads of adverts.
We also get the Wyke Examiner, an A4 sized booklet filled with local news and adverts monthly; and the Bridport and Weymouth Diary, which is yellow, has all the adverts in the world and features really rather uplifting articles on how to look after horses. You don't get THAT in the East End of London.
Scaryduck | Homepage | 23.03.06 - 11:13 a.m. | #
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Also: You might find that there IS a local freesheet, but you don't get one for the simple reason that they can't recruit a paperboy to deliver the thing.
Scaryduck | Homepage | 23.03.06 - 11:34 a.m. | #
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We get two newspaper style things shoved through our letterbox (technically shoved into it as they never ever push them all the way through, rendering the doormat inside a sodden mess on rainy days). Both are advert full and newsless.
And as for London news, isn't that what the tabloids cover? 
Gordon | Homepage | 23.03.06 - 11:54 a.m. | #
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I get two free newspapapers every week, both for the City and the council area. Population is for the City 85,0000 and for the council area 120,000. You can even ask for the newspaper in various languages if Dutch is not yur first language. I always smile when people can tell you who is the President of France is, but do not KNOW who their own Mayor is.
michael | 23.03.06 - 12:09 p.m. | #
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Two a week in our area - one quite good (delivered properly) the other that seems to be compiled by a teenager who needs to learn English (and is always left sticking out of the door).
Handy to find out what's on at a weekend, even handier for lining the rabbit cage...
GoodTwin | 23.03.06 - 12:27 p.m. | #
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That's v strange...
Do you not get Docklands News either or the new - and very packed - Docklands weekly that's been brought out this year...? Did you even get this week's issue of the Londoner (the Mayor's paper)?
I actually look forward to having a read through East End Life on a Sunday morning to find out about any free local events and really like the in-depth history articles about the borough (which are on a par with some of the interesting posts to be found here ). Plus I like to see if I recognise any of the residents featured... I've lost count of the number of ex-school friends that pop up every so often.
As well as not receiving East End Life, I remember you posting about not having green box/pink bag recycling either (and thinking at the time this was unusual - our ward has had the doorstop collection service for nearly 5 years now). LBTH launched a massive campaign at the end of last year to get everyone in the borough to recycle (more). This was advertised very heavily in East End Life - which might explain a lot!
Why not have a word with LBTH about EEL delivery (and the recycling - no resident should miss out on the chance of owning one of those shocking pink recycle bags and winning £50 worth of M&S vouchers)...? It probably is an oversight of some sort.
Another LBTH-er | 23.03.06 - 12:38 p.m. | #
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We get three a week here (Northampton) - two come on Thursday, the 'Mercury & Herald' which is published by the same people as do the local daily, and the 'Herald & Post' which is part of one of those bigger groups whose name I can't remember.
I prefer the H&P.
Then on Sunday, we get another one, which might be called 'Northants on Sunday'. Its a bit rubbish though that one.
SM | Homepage | 23.03.06 - 1:22 p.m. | #
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No, I don't get 'Docklands News' (presumably because I'm not in Docklands).
No, I don't get Ken's 'The Londoner' any more (although I used to once).
No, I don't even get this supposedly weekly 'East End Life' council newspaper, which is a bit galling considering that my taxes pay for it.
And yes, my letterbox is very easy to access from the street.
Sigh.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 23.03.06 - 5:14 p.m. | #
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East End Life, great read. But we're lucky enough here in Poplar to get it delivered more than once a month.
cmd | 23.03.06 - 11:36 p.m. | #
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What about the Walford Gazette, then?
Scaryduck | Homepage | 24.03.06 - 2:22 p.m. | #
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Ring up 7364 3179. There was a period a few years ago when East End Life got a bit erratic but for a long time it's been very regular (until last weekend). After I rang up the deliveries went back to normal. You should be getting your copy. John Rennie does an interesting local history page every week you'd enjoy.
Owen | 25.03.06 - 8:00 a.m. | #
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If you haven't got the pink recycling bag (I don't know if they still hand out the green buckets) ring 7364-3364. I'm a bit doubtful about the current recycling contract - we used to have to separate the different types of waste and there was really efficient team of sorters with the van, now they just bung everything in the back of one of those big compacters and all the sorting is apparently done mechanically when the load is processed.
Owen | 25.03.06 - 8:06 a.m. | #
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The free weekly is having a rough time over here in the states as well. I used to write for one that went out of biz about 5 years ago. It's a bit of lost artform.
minijonb | Homepage | 30.03.06 - 2:40 a.m. | #
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