The shropshire star- a good read most nights (Shropshire Star)

Member Name: mummy2twogirls

Product:	Shropshire Star
Date:	04/11/08 (38 review reads)
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Advantages: keeps you upto date with local and national news

Disadvantages: sometimes the paper is not worth buying

The Shropshire star is my local evening paper, and covers the whole of Shropshire and mid wales,printing eight editions a day, six days a week.
It's first every copy went on sale back in 1964, and since then has kept Shropshire residents up to date with all the local, national, and international news. It was the first ever evening newspaper in Europe to be printed by web-offset, right up to the present day, with the introduction of the electronic newspaper, vast investment in new technology has helped to provide readers and advertisers with products second to none.
Each day averages around 223,000 readers, which is just over half the population of adults in Shropshire and mid wales.

The newspaper has lots of different sections, each relating to various subjects, The main cover normally is dominated by the top story, and then there are 5-6 other stories around it, which are carried on in the main news section.
Opening up the paper you are greeted by whats on the tv tonight- they give you full listings of programes right up until the next day- very handy if you need know what a time a show starts,or whats on!.
For the next 10 or so pages it focus's on news, and things happening around the area.
In the middle section each night they do a feature on different things ranging from cars to clothing.
There is also quite a large classified section, where people can advertise things they want to sell, things they want to buy etc. There is also a birthday, anniversary, births and deaths column, for people wanting to announce different events.
Towards the back of the paper, there is a daily horoscope column, and the last 6-10 pages is focusing on sport, football, rugby, horse racing, fishing,etc. While covering the national sports they also try to include the county's local teams as well.
The paper costs 32p to buy and can be found in any shop around Shropshire, or like me you can arrange with your local newsagent to have it delivered ( at a small charge).
On a Thursday the paper tends to be a lot more bigger as this is job night, where local business's advertise job's etc, and on a Saturday the paper is bigger because they focus on various events happening in the area, local plays, theater productions, cinema listings, and also review different restaurants, cafes, takeaways in the area.

Summary: A great local newspaper to keep you upto date