UK: RIP London Paper

http://www.thelondonpaper.com/thelondonpaper/news/london/news/thelondonpaper-2006-2009

Riding the tube will not be the same.

I was very annoyed when I heard they were shutting - tlp is ten times better than its rival, the London Lite.  I can understand why, as they were clearly making heavy losses, it's just a pity it couldn't be the crappier paper that shut down instead of the one that was actually professional, clean and stylish.

That's exactly what I was thinking. I got someone to get the very last one for me, since I'm not there to do it myself. Hopefully the website will continue. I follow them on twitter and it's a great way to keep up with all the local stuff going on in London from over here in GA!

Rest in peace? More like good riddance! Hopefully now the remaining Lite hawkers will dwindle to only one or two per station so you can actually walk the streets in the evening without having 20 different pushy jerks shove papers repeatedly into your face even after you've shouted no. Honestly, I was beginning to loathe them almost as much as chuggers.

Aw! It was fun for me, I guess. Yeah, sometimes they are in the way, but so are all the other millions of people in the streets of London. I liked having something mindless to read on the tube.