Time to get your monies worth (The Sunday Times)

Member Name: Surfbabe13

Product:	The Sunday Times
Date:	16/02/09 (59 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Lots of bits so whole family can read it

Disadvantages: Lots of bits to trawl through

The Sunday Times is great for dipping into throughout the week so you don't need to buy a newspaper every day!

There are loads of sections, so everyone in the family can have a piece to read. Appointments section gets ditched straightaway though.

There is the main section which takes more than one cup of tea and slice of toast to read through. I tend to dip in and out of this section.

Culture, lists not onlly the television and radio for the coming week, but has in depth articles about concerts, films, plays, art exhibitions and books. Again a good section for dipping in and out of.

Style, drives me round the bend - it is aimed at the high spending end of the market, and whilst some of the articles are quite good it is basicallly glossy and light weight. It does contain some good recipes sometimes and some helpful advice at others. Mrs Mills needs to get a life though!

The Sunday Times Magazine is alwyas a good read, and I can usually lose myself in this for an hour. The day in the life of article at the back is usually interesting and features ordinary people as well as celebs. It always contains good high quality photographs on intersting subjects and its editorials are good reading.

Now on to the actual broad sheet supplements;

Money is worthwhile reading - down to earth advice, usuallly written so you can understand it. The articles featuring real people are informative and sometimes you can relate to the situation they are in. The postbag help column is good for advice on how to deal with truculent companies!

News Review - don't read it if you don't like Jeremy Clarkson, although his column is only a small one compared to others. The front page story is usually a good read - occasionally I start off reading it but then get bored though. The education pages are geared very much to slating the state sector and promoting the private sector. Mr Woodhead has nothing good to say about the state sector and doesn;t apear to have lived in the real world of education depsite being head of Ofsted (need I say more). WInners Dinners is always good for a laugh and the letters and the addition of a quick synposis of the week is handy to catch up on the news you missed by not buying a daily paper!

Sport - Ok if you are a football fanatic - I tend to look up the Hammers score and have a quick flick through to see if anything of interest grabs my attention.

Business - forget this unless you have stocks and shares, run a business or suffer from insomnia.

There are then three further newsprint supplements

In Gear - featuring cars, bikes, technology and usually a good read.

Home - well we can all dream can't we - although it is interesting to see how much property is, what people do it nad see what we should be doing in the garden.

Travel - again aimed at those who either have limitless pots of money, time on their hands and no children. The articles on places are interesting and it is nice to see places that would otherwise be out of reach.

My Sunday morning read consists of tearing open the plastic bag the Style, Culture and Magazine come in and disposing of all the marketing stuff in it. Then tackling in this order; News Review, Culture, Money, Style, Main Paper, Magazine and so on until I've fininshed the lot.

A good value, quality paper, whose bias I don't always agree with but which is well written and informative.

Summary: A good quality paper, with good writers and a good price