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Your London Evening Standard is now available through more than 500 retailers in an effort to meet overwhelming demand since it became a free newspaper.
The arrangements have been made with newsagents following requests from thousands of readers.
The Evening Standard is also now available at a
range of Tesco, Sainsbury, Waitrose, Morrison, Asda and independent stores as well as branches of WH Smith.
In addition, the Evening Standard is still being given away by more than 300 distributors outside or near all main line and Tube stations.
We are making every effort for copies to be available late into the evening. Please do particularly keep a lookout at self-pickup distribution points or in WH Smith outlets at the stations.
We appreciate that due to the unprecedented demand some regular readers have said they cannot get their copy where they normally pick it up.
Do keep checking with your local store as
we are continually working with retailers to meet requests from readers.
To find out the latest on where the Evening Standard is available ring our freecall helpline or go to our online map at the link below.
Thank you for your loyalty and, for those who have had difficulties picking up their copy regularly, for your patience.
If you are unable to get hold of your copy please call 0800 141 2629.
help@standard.co.uk
Freecall helpline 0800 141 2629
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IN PICTURES: READERS FLOCK TO GET FREE COPIES OF THE PAPER
Public figures reveal the FREE things in life they love most
Gordon Brown, Prime Minister
The NHS is loved in Britain because of the excellent care it provides and because it does so free at the point of need. I would like to wish the editor and all the staff the very best today as they offer Londoners their Evening Standard free for the very first time.
Andrew Motion, poet
London has always been the great city of free spirits and free thoughts, and is full of free pleasures as well — free museums, free libraries, free parks, all overlooked by free-to-walk-in Hampstead Heath. Now its best paper is free. Wonderful!
Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer
One of my favourite things is to spend a morning in the Tate Gallery, particularly in the Pre-Raphaelite bit.
Nigella Lawson, chef
Free speech, free time, free Evening Standard. Fabulous.
David Hockney, artist
Smoke-free, the Evening Standard free... What next, free tea? The best of luck.
Boris Johnson, Mayor of London
The best things in London are free. Free elections, free museums, free healthcare. The Evening Standard is the indispensable guide to London. I wish the paper well.
VS Naipaul, Nobel laureate
It is wonderful that the Evening Standard is free. Other free things I like are landscape and meeting new people and a good dinner party. And the love of my wife and cat.
Lawrence Dallaglio, former England rugby captain
The best free day for family Dallaglio is to go to the ceramic section of the V&A. It's absolutely fantastic.
Alain de botton, philosopher
I like to go to the nearest big hotel and take a seat in the lobby. I wish the Standard the very best.
Nicholas Hytner, artistic director, National Theatre
I can't wait to pick up my free Standard every evening, maybe as I listen to the free foyer music in the National Theatre or cross Waterloo Bridge to admire the view.
Anya Hindmarch, designer
London parks. Walking fast over the river, I love the bridges.
Reader views (7)
I can no longer obtain the paper which I have enjoyed over many decades and was happy to pay for. The outlets you say you distribute through eg Tesco do not stock in in St Albans.
Are you only interested in Greater London?
I used to obtain it from my local village store.
Please advise.
- Nicholas Barry, Sandridge, St Albans, England
Regarding Evening Standard Distribution, I would strongly recommend that Mile End Tube Station be an additional location as it is best suited for people living and working in the Bow Area.
- Jim Ives, London E3
I use to be able to buy a copy of the evening standard no matter how late it was on my way home and I was happy to pay for it. Now it is free I have to go hunting for a copy and today by 8.45pm I couldn't get a copy anywhere at Waterloo station. I am really dissapointed because it seems those who get them free now are those who didn't pay for it before and those who use to pay for it now have to hunt around in order to get a copy.
- Kofo Oyeleye, London, UK
my husband and myself are both disabled and unable to travel very far to get our copy of the evening standard,since it has become a free newspaper we have been unable to get a copy,the only places in stoke newington are hamdys and morrisons which are nowhere near where we live,pleasecan you advise us where else we can get it from or if its available through the post,we especially like it on wednesdays when you get the homes and property in it.
- Jacky Trew, stoke newington london
I have been buying the Evening Standard at Stratford Station on my journey home for many years but since becoming free it seems to have disappeared from view. I have seen it being distributed if I'm travelling at lunchtime, but that's only the early edition, which I see no point in picking up. However between 5 and 6 in the evening I can't see the Standard anywhere. By contrast I can't move for copies of London Lite being thrust at me. Can you tell me what your plans are for improving evening distribution at one of the capital's major transport interchanges.
Incidentally what happened to the two people who used to staff the kiosk at the station? They were always chatty, friendly and helpful and brightened my day. Please pass on my thanks to them
- Alastair Kidd, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, England
I cannot obtain a copy of London.Evening Standard here in New Malden. I am a 77 year old Londoner and regularly read The Evening Standard all my life. I miss it badly.
Today, I had to take the train into Kingston by riding on S.W.Trains,picking up the copy that an exiting passenger left on his seat at Kingston Station.
I used to buy my Standard from any of three news agents (one at the New Malden Station hallway)or a Tesco Metro store, all located in close proximity to New Malden Station.
I would appreciate knowing where is my closest pick up point?
Regards,
- Ron Gordon, New Malden
Would it not be possible to have a distribution point near City Hall in Victoria Street, London. To obtain a copy the nearest is by Victoria Station, could there not be one half way up Victoria Street as well?
Thanks.
- Sally Tierney, London, UK
