please empty your brain below
The typeface looks like the "London Paper".

Also the "playing away" city worker (who cares?) was lead story from "City Prices" to "West End Final".

Short stories as if the average attention-span is no more than 30 seconds.

Rubbish, even if it's not Daily Mail-backed.

Bowroaduk | 12.05.09 - 1:28 a.m. | #

i started my first regular London job 1994, when the Standard cost 25p. i quite liked the bonus 'ES' magazine which first you used to get on every Friday, and then became just the first Friday of every month.

i got onto first name terms with my vendor, i even tipped her a fiver at Christmas, and used to love reading the London Sports news, and to see who Victor Lewis Smith was ranting at the day. (the ultimate accolade being when he he did ME, when i was on TV and he upset my mum by calling me a geek)

would i still buy it now if i were in London? probably, but maybe not everyday. if i was on a 20-30 minute train ride, i really enjoy just dipping into the paper and then leaving it on the seat for someone else.

geofftech | Homepage | 12.05.09 - 2:05 a.m. | #

Hang on, didn't you tell us off the other day for not supporting our local papers?

martin | 12.05.09 - 2:31 a.m. | #

Hmmm. And who exactly are the sweepingly generalised "Putney women" that it's aimed at then? Is there some uniform breed of female that wanders the streets of SW15? I ain't seen 'em. Lazy indeed.

Steven | 12.05.09 - 8:20 a.m. | #

If there were more facts and less opinions it might qualify as a 'news' paper. I always used to hate the Grauniad because it was chock full of opinions dressed up as fact. They're all at it now. (And no wonder fewer people are buying)

Bina | Homepage | 12.05.09 - 9:46 a.m. | #

I noticed today that they're advertising the price as 25p if you have an Oyster Card - one of the "We promise" motos on the new posters. Interesting tactic.

Tom | Homepage | 12.05.09 - 10:22 a.m. | #

Bring back the Evening News and the Saturday Pink.

Johnny Topaz | 12.05.09 - 10:23 a.m. | #

Lets just get this straight once and for all, can we? The statue you refer to as "Eros" is only called that in the popular imagination. Its actually "The Spirit of Charity, flying swiftly as an arrow", otherwise known as The Shaftesbury Memorial" in memory of Lord Shaftesbury, an noted philanthropist, after whom Shaftesbury Avenue is also named.

Capability Bowes | Homepage | 12.05.09 - 10:40 a.m. | #

But would you pay to browse the ES website?

Blue Witch | Homepage | 12.05.09 - 11:07 a.m. | #

The journalists on the free papers sit on a PA (press association) news feed all day, watch SKY 24 on large screens in the newsroom, and regurgitate the stories they think are appropriate. They rarely investigate further into the story, and only occasionally pick up the phone to get a quote from the people involved. I’ve worked for one (with experience of another), and it put me off the free papers for life. To be slightly fairer, they do not have time or space spare in the paper to do a proper journalistic coverage as they assume their audience want ‘bite size’. In the days of twitter et all – they are all struggling.

Jayne | 12.05.09 - 11:47 a.m. | #

I got offered the paper about 3 times yesterday, after 6 o' clock, and it was the final edition which included the Tower Bridge & Whitechapel Gallery stories. If you didn't manage to get it, that's on you

So you have positive news, negative news, stories about rich boroughs and poor boroughs, financial news, reports on crime, fiction, sport, future events, local news... it's not hard-hitting journalism, but we're talking the Evening Standard, not Der Spiegel, and you got this FREE.

You have some good points but I think you're just bitter you didn't get your Kit Kat.

K | 12.05.09 - 11:51 a.m. | #

K, you were lucky to get one after 6pm - I passed any number of empty stands but no papers. (I didn't get a Kit Kat either).

Caroline | Homepage | 12.05.09 - 12:40 p.m. | #

I think Capability Bowes clearly went to the same charm school as Veronica Wadley.

As for the new Standard - meh. Strange to see so many people reading it yesterday, though - a bit like going back in time.

darryl853 | Homepage | 12.05.09 - 12:42 p.m. | #

I'm totally underwhelmed with it. I'll still pick it up however as I don't have access to the freebies and I do like to have a London read before lights out

Christian | 12.05.09 - 1:43 p.m. | #

I had the late edition practically thrust in my hands by one of 5 distributors at London Bridge around 7pm yesterday. Orange - yuck. Editor's note - interesting. Headline and news - not great. Opinion and features, interesting. It's certainly not a fail, but as my commute is so short, the freesheets will suffice for the time being.

s | 12.05.09 - 1:50 p.m. | #

I've bought the Standard on a Monday and Tuesday for the job section whenever needed, but have always found it to be a light-weight read, pretending to be a serious paper.

At least now it looks like the free ones as well - the evil, bad, environmentally unsound ones.(They tend to get binned, not recycled at the end of the day.)

I'll probably keep buying it when I need it, and may read the rest of it, but only as a distraction from travel rather than how I get my news. It's that or read the ads on the tube, I suppose.

kelly | Homepage | 12.05.09 - 2:26 p.m. | #

I'm with DG yet again. I also picked up the paper and was hoping to be impressed, but I wasn't. I really wish there was a decent evening paper. It seemed much the same content to me, and I think they really boobed with their lead story - surely this would have been the day to focus on something people actually give a monkeys about rather than some rich banker we've never heard of getting divorced. Who the hell cares about that (apart from him, obviously)?

SELondoner | 12.05.09 - 2:33 p.m. | #

Delivery was delayed due to unexpected traffic congestion in Central London - somewhere around Parliament Square I believe.

Tim | 12.05.09 - 9:59 p.m. | #

I got my free Monday copy at Waterloo at 6.15pm. I prefer the Standard to the free papers as it has better puzzle pages.
I also forked out 50p and bought the Tuesday edition next evening.
I hope the "Standard" succeeds. I still remember when we had 3 London newspapers papers, the Evening News, The Star and Evening Standard. Only the Standard remains.

John | 12.05.09 - 11:07 p.m. | #

I read the Standard along with a brief flick through the free papers. A Londoner's Diary has always been a fascinating column, along with the puzzles and letters pages. The quality of writing in the Standard also far exceeds that of the freesheets.

However, I do feel the Standard, like many papers, has fallen into the trap of jumping on the bandwagon of covering scandals and divorce settlements that, really, no-one cares about, as the front page story demonstrates, and perhaps focusing too much on celebrity gossip.

Is it worth 50p? Maybe, or maybe not. However, I still buy it out of loyalty from my way home from work (plus I get it for 25p at the moment with my Oyster card). I do prefer the old colour scheme though.

Andrewh | 13.05.09 - 12:28 a.m. | #

local paprers are &/\\%&( compared to the quality of national papers...you stated before you didnt like locals either...

spammer | Homepage | 13.05.09 - 6:33 a.m. | #

I was handed a copy for free outside Tottenham Court Road station at 9.15 last night - I'd heard they were selling it for 10p late at night in stations, so wonder if it's also going to be free in other places to get rid of unsold copies once the other freesheets have gone home.

Having actually read it, it seems to have a reasonable amount of news in it - though that might perhaps be because I'd spent the day asleep, rather than with half an eye on news channels.

martin | 13.05.09 - 8:40 a.m. | #

I got lifted at my local Waitrose when I spotted the large "FREE TODAY" message on the ES bin on the way out and picked one up. Seems that nobody had told their security staff. Haven't been stopped (or indeed indulged in) shoplifting since I was clocked stuffing my pockets with pick 'n' mix in Woolworth's, aged about nine.

ES is still a nasty rag though.

Gavin | 13.05.09 - 10:07 a.m. | #

I'm an alumni of Robert Clack - the school mentioned and my brother is a teacher in Dagenham.

He holds less hope for most of his kids, who, because this is a sink school, can barely write their name let alone anything else.

Tom Reynolds | Homepage | 13.05.09 - 2:27 p.m. | #











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