Manchester Evening News

The Manchester Evening News paper is probably the biggest selling paper in Manchester. It has more than one edition a day now , I think three altogether and in the city centre itself it can now be picked up for free - this didn't used to be the case and some places that sell it in store will still charge for it at normally 30p. However if you are going through the city centre then there is no need to as it can be picked up for nothing! The paper covers a lot of topics including a sports section, general news and also nationwide news. There is also a travel section in the paper too, usually with some really cheap deals and the paper also has a retail section ...  Read the complete review

Local papers. They are a strange creature. I was brought up on the Dumfries and Galloway Standard and the Dumfries Courier. I am sure you have a similar paper. They are all usually the same. Pictures of local tots at their play school Halloween party, and local youngsters just graduated with their coo and gown and scroll looking pretty smug as they say bye bye to the regions to start a new career results from such exacting things as the local bridge society and the WRI jam making contest. Then there are the hatches, matches and dispatches and the listings of the court proceedings. What I am trying to say is the main point of reading a local paper is to find out who is ...  Read the complete review

We live in Cheshire, about 6 miles from city centre Manchester & although we have a good free weekly newspaper there's always a copy of the Manchester Evening News (MEN) lying around because it's such a good newspaper. I'm not quite sure why it's called 'evening' as we pick it up first thing in the morning but there is a later edition which comes out at lunchtime. The price is 40p & although today's edition is 56 pages sometimes it's more 'meaty' & holiday periods it's a lot thinner. Mondays are good for businesses, Thursdays for jobs & Fridays & Saturdays are great for sport & entertainment. The rest ...  Read the complete review

The great advantage that The Manchester Evening News enjoys is that it covers a wide enough area to be actually reporting news and genuine happenings rather than 'Dog barks at man' or 'Schoolgirl spotted in High Street', the standard of stories covered in my most local of papers, the Sale and Altrincham Messenger. There are any number of disadvantages in the MEN, most notably in its slavish, frequently front page coverage of the minutiae of events at Old Trafford. Much of the speculation - like today's front page about Ruud Van Nistelroy's possible transfer to United - belongs on the back page. Instead, if Alex Ferguson farts somewhere in ...  Read the complete review

The Manchester Evening News (MEN) are in my bad books at the moment, but you'll have to read the nice bit of the opinion first to find out why. This is a local(ish) paper that is published in tabloid form 6 days a week. Though Manchester by name is spans the whole of the north west and other areas of the country too - and even though at home we have weekly and daily free and not so free papers that cover a more local area, in the newsagents in which I used to work many people still asked for the MEN. It's an afternoon daily (as indeed most local UK publications are) but the time it hits the shelves depends on your location - I can get it around noon here in ...  Read the complete review