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.

I've been popping in and out of this shop since I was about 10 years old. My earliest memory of the…read moreplace is when Granddad lived around the corner on Dyas Road and would always pick up his Evening Mail from there. I find it very satisfying that the shop is still there and looks pretty much as I remember it as a kid. Whilst it's changed hands a few times over the years it's still a reassuring fixture of the Kingstanding Road. These days I drop in once a month or so to buy tobacco, or some other 'essential' (is tobacco an essential?) as I pass through Kingstanding. As well as a newsagent this is also an off licence - it wasn't like that in my Granddad's day! - so, if the mood takes you, you can always pick up a beer or two for a reasonable price.

Selling a wide range of newspapers, magazines and everyday household items, this small…read morenewsagent-come-convenience store is a handy place to stop by whenever you're passing through Kingstanding. A large public car park is located just over the road, for shoppers visiting the Hawthorn shopping centre and several bus stops are within walking distance. Inside, the store is clean, spacious and very well organised. Though small in size, logical organisation and lack of makeshift shelving make ensure that the store never feels cramped, and friendly staff make every visit here a pleasant one. The prices are surprisingly good too.

Standard newsagents that I often pop to for a newspaper or lottery ticket. Friendly service and…read moreeverything you would expect from this type of shop. They may even have that extra bit of luck we are all looking for in life as the last time I bought a lottery ticket from here I won a tenner!

This is just a typical newsagents as they have what you'd expect from a newsagents; magazines,…read moresweets and drinks. As you many know Hall Green is a large residential area therefore there are a lot of news agents so I think what would make Sai news stand out is having a larger selection of food and drinks and possibly sell stamps. I thought the owners were friendly as they gave a good greeting when I walked in. The prices are cheap, which is great for everyone who wants to save money and especially as I am a student.

So ummm it's not often that | give a newsagents 4 stars, because they tend to be much of a…read moremuchness, let's face it. This one, however, was great. The chap who was working there (Mr. Sai? Who knows...) was lovely - really smiley and pleasant. It was also extremely well-stocked - with anything you could ever want from parcel tape to plastic toys - oh, and plenty of newspapers/ magazines, of course. They also had a great selection of general groceries, and the shop was clean and well-presented. Probably the best newsagents I've been to in the past few weeks. Also, they seem to be very reasonably priced - for example, the chewing gum I bought was only 40p - I've paid twice that in some newsagents....

This is more of a small supermarket than a convenience store. You name it, they sell it. They have…read morea pretty good selection of cold beers and a decent wine shelf. It's also the only place on the Raddlebarn Road where you can get a newspaper and they also have a fairly good selection of magazines. Of all the small shops on the strip they are always open first, so if you wake up early (as I do) then you know that by 7am you can wonder down and get a pint of milk, or some tobacco. You can pay by card and they don't add on the spurious 35p charge that some local stores have taken to doing and the staff are always friendly and welcoming. They are also National Lottery agents, so it's a place you can throw away £1 on the chance of the big score!

I have very fond memories of this shop and the chap (Mr Guraya I presume) who runs it - my Nan used…read moreto live up the road so we sometimes used to pop over to pay her paper bill and have a chat. He was always really lovely and twinkly with my Nan but these days the shop is run by a younger crowd - who are equally sweet if a little heavy handed on the remote control (when Coronation Street is on, it can get LOUD in there). Popular with students and people from the nearby flats Guraya's is a corner shop and off license whose frontage is pretty much entirely covered by signs - they offer special deals on booze and you get a free bottle of wine if you spend over 20 pounds in store -no fags. They also do a pretty mean samosa here and I sometimes stop off on my way to work to pick up a coffee - half the time they make it out the back for me because the coffee machine is broken. Anyway I really like it here and if you are a student in need of a late night snack or bottle of wine for under a few quid then I suspect you could do worse.

I'm in the shop every day, every single day 7 days a week to buy foods and a few cans of beer. It…read moreis immaculate and the proprietors, Laki and Guraya are extremely helpful and kind, so the person who wrote this..."this is a very small run down and usty off-licence. keeps a small selection of essentials only." Is just flat out lying. I would hardly buy my food there if it wasn't spotless. This is a top little shop!

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.

This branch of WH Smith is very small compared to some of their other stores, it seems a bit poky…read moreinside actually and I noticed last week that the interior looks a little tired. If you're prepared to overlook the style of the store, you can expect to find all the excellent books and magazines that are available in the larger Smiths. At the moment they have a good sale on with many of the hardbacks having huge reductions, I'm not sure if this is the case in other WH Smiths stores but this Northfield branch has included absolutely loads of bestsellers and fairly new releases in this sale. As you go in the store you'll see an excellent range of magazines and newspapers, the choice of mags in here is second to none and I can get all my celeb news, a boxing mag for my fella and comics for the kids. I always have a mooch around the paperbacks as sometimes you'll find a book on the shelf which has been unceremoniously reduced in price and then you feel that you've had a real bargain! There's a brilliant choice of paperbacks ranging from classics to new chick lit releases. There's also a decent non-fiction section which included biographies, reference books, craft books and anything else you can think of. Prices for these are quite expensive and I'd rather borrow these from the library than pay over the odds like this. Staff in WH Smiths are generally knowledgeable about the books they sell, I've never been given any bad advice in this branch and whenever I ask for the location of a specific book they have taken me straight there without sending me all around the shop!