I deposit 600 pounds on my monzo card and they charge me 16 pounds which is free on other pay…read morepoints.. fraud

Warning, this is more of a rant than a review ... about how it is near impossible to buy my…read morefavourite newspaper after 6pm on a Saturday. I love the Saturday edition of The Guardian and my weekend is not complete if I don't get hold of a copy. On several occasions now I've ended up rushing from supermarket to supermarket in Notting Hill (there's a Tesco, Waitrose and M&S all lined up the hill, another Tesco's next to Holland Park station) to find large stockpiles of The Times but not a single issue of The Guardian. No, I won't buy into Murdoch Press, is this a conspiracy? It's only desperation that drives me into supermarkets in the first place - gone are the days where you had a newsagent's at every corner, especially near the main tube stations ... shops that look like a newsagent's now only sell tourist tad and sweets. Except Embassy News - it really was worth walking up a little further towards Bayswater Road to finally come across Embassy News. Lovely man behind the counter who confirms that they don't pack up their newspapers to return to the distributors before midnight (most supermarkets remove all newspapers by 7pm, hence my panic). Not the most convenient location for me but this may well become a regular haunt as I keep remembering too late that there's something missing in my life.

This is one of those tiny newsagent shops that manages to pack a lot into a small space. It sells a…read morewide range of newspapers and magazines, as well as confectionery, greetings cards, tobacco and a small range of drinks and snacks. Staff are efficient, and it's often busy (lots of people paying their paper bills, so they must have an extensive service of paper rounds). Prices are par for the course (ie a little higher) for a small newsagents.

Very keen. I've won many of their competitions. First I won tickets to a Pogues concert at the O2…read morefrom this newspaper. Then I've won a couple of DVDs and late last year tickets to the Irish Film Festival London. The quirky films were over different venues (Tricycle in Kilburn, Riverside Studios in Hammersmith and a posh art institution on Pall Mall). Very good films and so interesting. Once I've finished with it I give it to the Irish cleaning lady in my block of flats. As with the Irish World Newspaper, I probably wouldn't agree with most of the published opinions. I'm in favour of having Northern Ireland as part of Britain even though I've got two great-grandmothers who were Irish - Murphy and Ryan. But the Irish Film Festival prize last year was most atmospheric taking me to different parts of London!

Good bookshops are dangerous places, and Daunt Books is one of the most dangerous of all. You can…read morelose yourself for hours, browsing through the recommendations temptingly laid out on tables. And while you're queuing to pay, there are more temptations on your way to the till - for book junkies this is worse than the sweet counters in supermarkets! Daunt Books is a small chain of independent booksellers with an emphasis on travel and literature. I like the way they curate their shops and always succeed to find a gift here - but not without buying one or two books to keep myself.

A trip to Holland Park is in order when I feel like I want to treat myself to a view of upscale…read morehomes, eat fancy deli foods, and, a recent discovery, peruse the Daunt bookshop outpost tucked into the main drag there. Compared to the Marylebone locale--the only other Daunt that I've visited--this shop is smaller, quainter, and, on my trip, super quiet. Ahh. I found an interesting-looking book, 'Mendelssohn Is on the Roof', quickly bought it and went on my merry way. http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/05/books/trying-to-murder-a-statue.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

I have had many dealings with Metro over the years. I have called on them to publicise events on…read morequite a number of occasions, and they've always come through for me, and the organisations I've been representing. When I lived out at Coed Hills Rural Artspace last year, I called on them again to help spread the word about a fundraising event to be held at this 'not for profit' organisation. As always, they came up with the goods, even though they had undergone a series of regional rationalisations and were down to a skeletal staff in the provinces of South West England and Wales. Everyone I have ever dealt with at Metro has been more than gracious... they are downright, upstanding, lovely people! Over the last couple of years I have relied very much on a chap called Velmir, and never a more professional and all-round good guy there was. He used to be based at the address in Bristol below, but I've just done a search on the internet to see if these offices are still around... nothing came up! Velmir, if you are still out there, i send you my very best! So! What of Metro? What can I say? It's free. It's exceptionally well informed, and it's daily. It features loads of stuff that's of real interest, and as well as being colourful it's really well laid out... Best of all, their listings are always on the money! The only thing is, I have no idea how they do it! Clearly they deploy some kind of magic! METRO Bristol News & Media Temple Way Bristol BS99 7HD

The Metro is a great paper. The best thing about it, is that it's free :) other than it being…read morefree, it's informative, and it always has a quirky story on the 3rd page. The always have light hearted articles running throughout. There are celebrity pages on in the inside, sports pages at the back, readers comments, travel updates and holiday ads on the back pages. The main reason I pick up the Metro is down to Nemi, Nemi is fantastic, it is my favorite comic strip (next to Snoopy) she is really funny. On the same page as Nemi you will get some cool games to play if you are bored on the train :) You can pick up the train at pretty much every tube station in London, normally these run out in the morning so be quick :P As Coralia mentioned an E version is available, if you have an iphone, it is available for download. Note: the ink does rub off on your hands :( rubber gloves might help stop that though or the E version ;) After you have read your paper you can do many things with it, you can keep your hair dry if it suddenly starts to rain by placing the paper on your head, you can make some paper aeroplanes, you can use it as a pee mat for your dog or alternatively you can put it in the recycle bin at work :)