please empty your brain below
And just WHERE is your local workplace?

Leuconoe | 07.11.09 - 8:47 a.m. | #

Seems especially odd that Smiths and Tesco in the Surrey Quays Shopping Centre only get the first edition -- they're only about 200 yards away from where it's printed, and you'd think they could just chuck a few copies of the final edition over the fence.

Mike Scott | 07.11.09 - 9:03 a.m. | #

toilet paper

siidiq | Homepage | 07.11.09 - 10:48 a.m. | #

They're not available at Stratford Station. I've never seen one on the westbound Central line at Stratford either. Rare as hen's teeth...

Eskimo Pie | 07.11.09 - 11:35 a.m. | #

Wouldn't be missing much by not having it.

stroppycow | 07.11.09 - 1:08 p.m. | #

Totteridge & Whetstone is my local station, there's nobody giving the Standard away there, but you can pick up a copy in Dixon's, three doors away, or in Waitrose, a little further up the hill.

You can't get much more Outer Suburbs than this.

chairwoman | Homepage | 07.11.09 - 2:33 p.m. | #

I've taken to taking out an online subscription. it appears magically in my inbox every day about 6ish (or earlier if you subscribe to both) and is just as easy to read. Free as well so can't complain.

Scott | 07.11.09 - 2:43 p.m. | #

I agree with you there. I work in Zone 1, so I can easily pick up the late edition of the Standard. However, out where I live in the suburbs, I can't think of a single independent newsagent who distributes the Standard any longer. After all, why should they allocate valuable shelf space to a newspaper which they're obviously not going to get any sort of return on?

Andrewh | 07.11.09 - 3:17 p.m. | #

is the point of the west end final that it is only available in the west end???

russ | 07.11.09 - 4:25 p.m. | #

And of course difficult access in the east end = less people bothering to go get one = more fuel to the "east is less important than west" argument.

CornishCockney | 07.11.09 - 4:31 p.m. | #

You can get a copy of the Standard at the City Thameslink station, which is on Fleet Street.

dg writes: ...which is on Ludgate Hill.

andrew | 07.11.09 - 5:57 p.m. | #

I'm glad you said a "supposedly pan-London newspaper", because the Standard doesn't really reflect how diverse and interesting our great city is. It's too preoccupied with the Kensington set, celebrities and restaurants where you'd need to apply for a loan to pay the bill. If you want to know what a proper newspaper for a big city should look like, check out the New York Times. It has a section called NY Region, which has some great stories about life in the five boroughs, and also some wonderful podcasts from ordinary New Yorkers. As far as the Standard is concerned areas such as Forest Hill, Plaistow, Willesden, Ruislip and Norwood seem not to exist. In fact, they might as well be in New York.

Greg Watts | Homepage | 07.11.09 - 6:48 p.m. | #

Where I live (my road was the Zone 2/3 boundary when that mattered for buses) there is an amazing 'white' space - corner of A23/A205 south of Brixton. I have a choice of 30 minute walks (or, okay, bus rides) either to central Brixton or to central Streatham (which is pretty far from any of the Streatham railway stations). Perhaps their omission of Streatham hill is because the station currently has a temporary entrance, and that will be remedied when the refurb is over.

However, compared to the number of newsagents and convenience shops that used to sell it!

It's fine for people who commute daily, but doesn't suit anyone who works part-time, works from home, works in the local neighbourhood, is retired, is a stay-at-home parent, is off work sick/injured (one can hobble to the local newsagent even if one can't go to work or the town centre)

Gert | Homepage | 08.11.09 - 2:41 p.m. | #











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