bhowells

I rarely buy my local newspapers The South Wales Echo and The Merthyr Express.

The South Wales Echo was once a good paper but I started having it delivered two years ago for a while and felt it was dumbed down drivel with too many vox pop interivews from readers. A far cry from when I read it in the sevenites and eagerly awaited the sports supplement on a Saturday from my local newsagents,I was never a sports fan, but I always loved the cinema listings for films being shown in Cardiff.

I love buying local rags when I am on holiday in Bourmemouth and Torquay, I think the Bournemouth Echo is a genuinely good paper.

The Omninternet website has a marvelous site which features newspapers from around the world.

batman

I haven't bought a newspaper, national or local since 1997.

I'm the cutest bottom judge!

Harleybloke

The Welwyn-Hatfield Times & The Watford Observer.

Local papers that kick butt!

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

bhowells

If their online I will have a look.

BristolUK

Yes. Times and Transcript.

Not very good but essential reading to know what's happening locally.

EHV_Emmetts

Me too. Since I've had access to the internet I see no reason to buy a newspaper as I get all my news etc from news sites.

I do believe the era of newspapers, as we know them, is changing forever. I read an article about an ipaper - a hand-held "newspaper", it looked interesting, but it was very expensive.

Chevyman

I don't bother with my local any more; I get three free newspapers, like it or not stuffed through the letter box

I never bother with dailies either.

I used to have subscriptions to specialist car and motor racing mags but they lapsed.

I did start collecting one or two cookery magazines but I find I get everything culinary on the 'net.

Only journal I do read now is my car club's quarterly mag.

I mind my own, and my own minds me

bhowells

I used to buy The Times up and until last year, but I ended up not reading it on the day and as a result had a month long backlog.

I buy The Stage newspaper every week, Folk Roots monthly, the ocasional edition of Gramophone classical magazine. My brother buys Mojo, Record Collector and the other music magazines,so I can read them free when I visit my Mum.

bhowells

I listen to many candadian radio stations on line, so I am quite familiar with whats happening across the country.

One of my favourite stations is CKWR in Waterloo and also CBC, and I have read quite a few newspapers online on the Omninternente site.

I dont have any family connections in Canada but I really want to visit there one day I am hoping to go to Vancouver or Toronto next year.

Chevyman

I used to spend ages thumbing through Record Collector before the 'net came along

I often pick up a copy of Private Eye if I'm travelling anywhere

Local papers seem very overladen with "Advertorial" as well as conventional ads.

Still, they have to make ends meet?

I mind my own, and my own minds me

CaptainWaggett

I browse through the paper local to my work most weeks - worth it for the shoddy editing which often means pictures have captions on the lines of 'Check bloke's name with Colin' or 'XXXX at garden party - leave space for name'!

bhowells

Record collector is my favourite music mag they cover genres that are neglected in other publicaions.

The Records for sale and Records wanted lists have dwindled down to almost nothing these days. At one time it was my favourite portion of the mag.

Also read my brother copy of Spectator from time to time.

CHEERS
B.H.

SirOllyBolly

Same here - and perhaps for even longer than that.

Fed up of their irritating pun-based humour, their ongoing colonial attitude of looking down at certain other countries, their perpetuation of cutural sterotyping... grrr, my list is longer than I thought!

If there was a paper that just delivered unadulterated facts I may consider buying it.

SirOllyBolly

"What fresh lunacy is this?"

jaycad

i buy the express on a monday for the quizword and the mail other days for the crossword,otherwise i can do well without!
as for my local newspaper,someone buys it in work and i read it for it's comical content-for instance,a couple of weeks ago page three was emblazoned with the headline '13 yr old boy steals box of roses chocolates from 'wilkinsons' shop' ha ha ha pathetic!!!

''no diggin'!!!!!!''

batman

I wouldn't even buy one of those .... my family was on the receiving end of some serious newspaper grief in 1997/98, even the so-called 'worthwhile' papers such as those scumbags at The Guardian and The Independent joined in. Among the tabloids the only one that was OK was The Daily Mail (hence my thread on the subject), but I am sure they would have if the others hadn't got there first.

All newspapers are written by people with their own agenda, regardless of their particular politics et al, and are therefore worthless.

I'm the cutest bottom judge!