metro.co.uk

It was the news that the London Evening Standard was going to be given away for free, the newspapers that is, not the company, although the current owner - Alexander Lebedev - did only pay a pound for it, that prompted me to write this review. I remember years ago that my father used to bring home the Standard every evening and catch up on the events of the day before the days when we had a telly. Everything he needed to know, he reckoned, he could learn from the Standard. I'm not sure about that but what is certain is that it packed a lot of concise information into a compact form. Years later, when I was still working I used to spend a lot of time with ...  Read the complete review

The Metro is a free daily paper available at most of the major cities around the UK and can be picked up at numerous locations, usually based around public transport. The paper is available Mon - Fri, excluding all the usual bank holidays. The Metro is an easy to read newspaper, that is probably most similar to the red top tabloids, however you do not get quite as much gossip, self help columns and celebrity photo's (thankfully), as you would expect in the usual tabloid papers. The first 15 or so pages of the paper are taken up by the usual current affairs stories that you would expect in any newspaper. The stories tend to be quite brief and are ...  Read the complete review

Metro.co.uk is the website version of the metro newspaper which can be picked up each day from train and tube stations. It is essentially a news service website, but far more light-hearted than the likes of bbc.co.uk and other similar sites. In addition to covering the mainstream / important news stories that have a major impact on world events they also include reports on more bizarre and obscure events, which are enjoyable and humorous to read. Examples include the burglar who fell asleep whilst inside a house he was burgling only to be awoken by police and strange crop circles from around the globe. The website is very user friendly and is made more ...  Read the complete review

I regularly read the metro whilst traveling on public transport to pass the time. The website is very similar to the paper you can read on the buses/trains and personally i enjoy checking the website for the up to date news as well as more light hearted news. The site is so easy to navigate around, with a tab running along the top with a range of pages to click onto. These inlucde, news, sport, lifestyle, weird, shopping etc. Plenty of sub-topics to choose from depending on what you want to find out about! Also the main page gives you the est temp for London, helpful for Londoners! Personaly i find the job section very useful, ...  Read the complete review

I work in an office and live in Scotland so it is rare that I look out of the window on my lunch and think that I fancy a walk with all of that rain beating down on me and so I regularly go on the internet on my lunch and always take a look around metro.co.uk to catch up with all of my news. The website has 4 main areas which I like to visit which are the NEWS, SPORTS, FAME, WEIRD sections and these are the ones I go onto on a daily basis to keep upto date with everything. The news section has a good selection of news stories which are well laid out and informative. The sports section gives a little bit of everything from the world of sports with all of ...  Read the complete review