A local corner shop thats not on a cornerStars is twinned with a post office and serves the…read morecommunity very well whether you need that morning paper or to post a parcel that's to big for the letterbox. This place always has friendly staff and is very competitive on price and is in a great place to capture a lot of local trade and perhaps some people who are driving into Birmingham.

Stars News Shops is the local newsagents, this store is based on Telford Estate in Shrewsbury. The…read moreshop is in the hub of the community, offering services such as newspaper delievery, be that the daily papers, sunday papers, or the local evening paper the Shropshire Star. The shop stocks newspapers, magazines, small sweet selections, a lottery facility, so you can buy those lucky numbers just incase you have forgotten to get your lottery ticket. The shop itself is in a small parade of shops, and there is a large car park at the side, which is free to use.

I'll be honest ... Its a newsagent. It sells paper, fags and assorted other stuff. It may be a…read morequicker option than the Spar next door and there's parking out back. Try not to park on the double yellow lines out front if you don't want to face me tutting mightily. But IT'S A NEWSAGENTS. Do you really need a review? Do you care about the ambiance when you are buying your copy of the Sun, your 20 B&H and your scratchcard??

I've been using this branch of Stars News for years and was pleasantly surprised to see it was…read morestill open (seemingly unchanged!) when I moved back to the area last year. Stars is great, it's like a step back in time for me as the general shop is still the same as it was when I was a little kid in the 80's. You can buy magazines and newspapers from here, as well as a small selection of groceries such as tea bags, sugar, Oxo cubes, Pot Noodle and things like that. Prices on the groceries are a little higher than other local shops, but I love the fact that I can be in Stars buying my mags and also get a few essentials without having to brave the queues in the Co-Op next door. They also sell stationery, a selection of cheapo pocket money toys (and don't knock them, they're a lifesaver when it comes to distracting the kids), greetings cards and lots of other bits and pieces that I couldn't possibly remember or list at the moment. This branch sells a bit of everything, in a good way it reminds me of a bric-a-brac shop because looking around the shop you'll see little unusual things that you want to buy for absolutely no reason at all. Another excellent thing about Stars is their Christmas club. Around May they'll start putting the Christmas catalogues out which you can take home to look at. When you've decided what you want to buy you order it at the till and you'll be able to pay however much you want each week, providing the balance is paid by the beginning of December. Then a week before Christmas simply pop into the shop and pick up your goods. The shop is laid out well and also houses a Post Office which is convenient for me, it's completely wheelchair friendly although turns can be a little tight towards the back of the shop so beware of this.

this is a small newsagents part of west heath shops. the size of the shop is small which limits the…read moreamount of items they can sell. they have a good magazine section and will reserve weekly/monthly editions for you. they also offer a newspaper delivery service. they sell cards, gift wrap and stationery and the usual confectionery and a small range of toys. they have recently added a small range of alcohol but personally i think that this eats up valuable space and is unnecessary as they is an off license a few doors up. they prices are more expesive than a supermarket but no higher than you would expect from a small shop. they do the lottery. major problem is the amount of space. it is difficult to get into the shop with a pushchair because of a heacy door and step. Once you are in it is hard to get round the shop as the aisles are very narrow. The staff are pleasant but you can queue for quite a while during busy times due to only 2 staff being on.

This is a great newsagent/sweet shop/toy emporium and purveyor of frozen goods - in fact this place…read moreis so versatile you can pop in for a copy of Cosmo, a kids BB gun, a half pound of gob stoppers and then pop upstairs for a guitar lesson - it does everything! Staff are really lovely and friendly - they seem to know most of the customers who go in which I think is a good sign and they do sweets in those lovely plastic, screw top jars. The toy selection is also really impressive - I think they even sell jigsaws. There's a small freezer section and they also sell cigs, papers and the like. Based just over the road from The Court Oak pub and a few minutes away from Queen's Park, this is a lovely place that's well worth a visit.

They sell old fashioned sweets .... Re-live your childhood here…read more This shop sells newspapers, sweets, ice creams, gifts, toys and cards. Everything you want from a classic newsagents they have here under one roof. Can't fault it really. But it is a little tired and outdated. I have known the shop owner for a long time now having lived in the area for over 10 years. most of their regular customers are known by name so its very much a community shop.

I always find this newsagent so convenient. The inside shop itself is a decent size for what it is…read more I've been in a number of times and the shelves are always full of stock. In my opinion, there is nothing worse than going to badly stocked shop that struggles to even have the basic of chocolate bars or pints of milk! If you literally need a sugar hit, magazine or a drink then the selection on offer should tickle your fancy. The woman who works there barely cracks a smile but when you're just buying a kitkat.. who cares. Overall, handy little shop that's bound to have something you want for sale. Prices are pretty average, if you're looking for cheap deals you'd be better going to a supermarket.

In my humble opinion, one of the most consistently reliable and excellent local services that the…read morecity of Birmingham has to offer is its newsagents, and an excellent example of this is S & Z News on Oak Tree Lane in Selly Oak. Their range of products is exactly what you'd expect from a small newsagents, not selling an awful lot more than magazines (of which they have what I've found to be an exceptionally good selection), newspapers, sweets, drinks, and a few basic essentials, such as tea bags. All their prices are extremely fair, more than competing with the nearby Sainsburys, and, despite having been in numerous times and been served by several different people, the staff are always friendly. If you're looking for any of the above in the area, then I'd heartily recommend S & Z News.

Located just above New Street Station in the Pallasades shopping centre, Newsflow is a small,…read moreunassuming newsagent. However, despite its appearances, don't be fooled. If I'm every after a drink, snack, or something to read on the train, I always head here instead of the much larger Smiths down on the station concourse. Newsflow's main selling point is the surprisingly expansive selection of magazines that they have on offer, with more than their wall space seems capable of holding. The prices haven't been ramped up with the proximity to the station in mind, either (a sharing bag of sweets retails for less than £2, which is competitive for anywhere, even large supermarkets), and the staff are always friendly. Even better, there's rarely a queue, meaning it can often prove to faster to go upstairs to Newsflow and then come back down to catch your train than it is to go to the nearby Smiths and queue for five minutes.

Bournville Stores appears to mostly sell greetings cards, ice cream and pet food…read more There are, of course, also newspapers, magazines, general groceries, snacks and toiletries - what with this being a newsagents and all - but for some reason this particular newsagents seems to be have a definite weighting towards those three items. Perhaps the good folk of Bournville love nothing better than to feed their pets whilst eating ice cream and writing greetings cards. It sounds like Pleasantville. But to be fair, it kind of is. In which case, Bournville Stores is ideally placed to meet these needs. Other than that, nothing to report - the service was fine, the prices were fine and it's a general, useful local store.

I've mentioned in other reviews of the Bourneville area just how lovely it is around these parts,…read morebut it bears repeating. A visit to Bourneville really is like visiting some sort of imagined, chocolate-box version of the past. It's like an idealised version of the 1950s around here and as such it's a pleasant place to spend an afternoon. Bourneville Stores is like a general store you'd find in a small, remote village, where they only stock what the locals want or need on a regular basis. As such, and beyond newspapers and the like, you'll find various other items that you wouldn't expect from what, at first glance, looks like a newsagents

Whenever I'm shopping on the Hawthorn Road in Kingstanding I will always pop into the appallingly…read morenamed Supercigs for some sweets for the kids - and my cigs, of course! It's a great little newsagents which I believe is part of a chain, but this branch is absolutely brilliant. They have a large selection of magazines and newspapers which is great for me as I love my trashy celeb mags, the magazines are laid out logically which is great compared to the newsagents nearby who seems to think it's a good idea to place Heat magazine next to Coarse Fishing books! They have a couple of fridges stocked with a nice selection of soft drinks which are reasonably priced and always well stocked. The 'munchies' section is the best part of Supercigs; they sell a brilliant range of crisps, boxed cakes, chocolate bars, sweets, chewing gum and bagged sweets. My daughters' love the bagged sweets because as well as the usual pineapple chunks and jelly beans they can also choose more exciting sweets such as chocolate Brazil nuts or dried banana chips. The sweets are all very reasonably priced, not just the bagged ones but across the board in this branch. The use-by dates are aways a way off in the future so I'm not such how they can offer such large discounts, but on my last visit I bought multi-packs of Monster Munch for £1 and a bag containing six Cadbury's chocolate bars for just 99p! My kids love it in here because the couple of quid I give them for sweets lasts so much further than if they spent it in the Co-Op. You can also buy greetings cards in here and in the centre of the shop are usually some discount baskets which can hold anything from kids' gardening sets (£1.99, although this was a couple of Summers ago) to huge boxes of marshmallows. Another thing I love about this branch of Supercigs is the fact that I can pay all my bills in there, it's a Paypoint outlet so any bill I have which requires a card or statement for payment I would simply hand over for them to scan and pay the money owed with no charges for this service. Saves a trip to the bank, and believe me I'd much rather be in a shop than a bank!