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Bright future for your Evening Standard
09.10.09
From Monday your London Evening Standard will become the first leading quality newspaper in the world to go free.
The Evening Standard will be accessible to more Londoners than ever before with 600,000 copies available throughout London and beyond.
There will be 260 merchandisers and vendors handing out copies. Readers will be able to pick up an Evening Standard at all main line stations, at all 65 Underground stations in Zone One, at 43 Underground stations in other zones, and in 225 supermarkets.
In addition to all over central London, the Evening Standard will be available in as many neighbourhoods as we can possibly arrange: from Chiswick to Croydon, from Ealing Broadway to Epsom, from White City to Watford, from Staines to Stratford, from Dagenham to Dulwich, from Hayes to Holloway, from Walton-on-Thames to Wembley.
It may be that you are unable to pick up your Evening Standard from your regular spot. If this is the case, please accept our apologies and do let us know at the phone number below. We promise to do our utmost to make papers available to as many readers as possible.
You may find that you cannot get your Evening Standard from your local shop as normal. We will though continue to work with traders to ensure that demand is met. It may be helpful to go to the online map at www.standard.co.uk/findme which shows where the Evening Standard will be
available.
You will, of course, also be able to read the latest news, sport, City and arts coverage online on standard.co.uk. From Monday, it will be possible to read the Evening Standard page-by-page online free of charge with a link to the e-edition on standard.co.uk
You have our assurance that your Evening Standard will remain the same newspaper with the same award-winning journalism.
All your favourite writers and columnists will be in your Evening Standard as normal. All the daily sections will remain on the same days.
Homes and Property will continue to be published on Wednesdays and ES magazine on Fridays. If for whatever reason you are unable to pick up a copy of ES Magazine, you can now sign up for your copy to be mailed to you each week.
To do this go to standard.co.uk/es Monday will be an historic day for the Evening Standard. We hope you will stay with us on this pioneering journey. Thank you for your loyalty. When you read Monday's new free London Evening Standard you will not be disappointed.
Freecall helpline: 0800 141 2629
www.standard.co.uk/findme
Reader views (14)
Very dissapointed ! despite numerous assurances from the careline: that The Evening Standard would still be available down here;
at the main Railway station, initially, this has not materialised to date.... please
Brighton being known as 'London by th Sea' !
- Susan Nortje, Brighton
The free London Evening Standard, without doubt, is a kind gesture at this current economic climate. I'm grateful to the owners and management of the newspaper and the people who came with this great idea . I hope that some other early newspapers and other organisations will do the same to cushion the pains of economic hardship. It can only get better and better for Londoners----waooooooo
- Festus Imade, Hackney, London
I hope its avalibe on buses aswell and street vendors
- David, london
Personally I would rather buy it, have bought it for the last 10 years-Can't stand freebies most of the people that pick them up are just after showbiz photos.
I personally like to have something different and better than the majority.
Also very bad for the environment, most of them will also be dumped on the trains.
- Adam, Essex
I just hope the move will not impact on the vendors at tube stations who are very much part of London life and it would be a shame to see them go.
- Ray, Dublin Ireland
I wonder how long it will be before other national newspapers go "free"?....
- William Grierson, Kimpton-UK
Yes Ken you are right The Evening Standard has to be avialbe to those of us who do not commute not just given out at railway stations like the other free papers
- David Smith, Croydon
Wonderful News and a wonderful paper.
The only one to read I do hope that there are more places to get it as it is so hard to get in the shops in Brighton which I do not understand as lts of people ask for it and shops can't get it.
Please make sure more can get it and enjoy a piece of London to the full...
enjoy
- Garry Morrill, Brighton
How will the move to free distribution affect where and how far out the Standard is distributed.
For example, I live in West Drayton (on the edge of West London) and work in Hook, Hampshire. Both locations have shops that sell the Standard. When the paper switches to free distribution, will retailers in locations such as Hook continue to receive the paper?
- Chris Green, West Drayton, Middlesex
Whenever I visit london I make sure the newsagent keeps my copy of the Standard,now that its free I may not be able to get one.
Naji
- Naji Al-Zaid, kuwait,kuwait
I have loved my Evening Standard for more years that I care to remember and only hope that the formatting stays the same as now and is not dumbed down like the other freebies to something resembling a cross between the Mirror and Sun. Please, please keep to your high standards.
- Yvonne Hall, London and Cambridge
In my youth I used to make a very good living selling a London evening newspaper at football grounds and race tracks so much so that when I left school in 1968 and started doing a full time job( it was a 44 hour week back then) I only got paid £6:00 a week when I had been earning a least twice by shouting "REEEEAD ALLLLL AAAABOUT IIIIT" as a newspaper seller. So what becomes of the newspaper sellers?
- Mike M, Bedford England
Delighted - but would have been nice to find out directly from the paper and not from another source.
I hope it won't mean that we lose the supplements and magazine tho!
Guess this is a really brave move and I hope it works for everyone, the paper included.
Cheers
- Ann Lyon, Greenwich
This will only be welcomed in the suburbs if it is available to non commuters. Since I retired I have continued my long tradition of buying the Standard. This habit goes back to when I had a choice between the Star,News and Standard
- Ken Mcaleer, Morden
