R.I.P. The London Paper

...so last week saw the last copy of "The London Paper" rolling off the presses, the last of the cheerful (or otherwise) migrant workers handing them out on the street corner and station concourse -

- and the end of any sort of free daily evening newspaper for those of us working at Canary Wharf...great...

For some reason (unlike the rest of London) we don't get heaps of London Lite deposited around the place at "going home time"...As a result, I have observed lots of commuters now voluntarily purchasing copies of the "Evening Standard" shocking the sales guys (who had a rather easy ride beforehand, frankly) or resorting to picking up copies of "The Wharf" to read (which is a weekly local paper focusing just on matters Dockland)...we need some sort of campaign to get the London Lite over here!

The other annoying thing is that in the morning I like to get my daily fix of Nemi, the evening was traditionally for me to chortle over Em...but all is not lost, there is a complete (free) archive of all Em cartoons over here...(if you haven't read them before, then please do so, it's an incredibly entertaining cartoon strip and was the highlight of my tube journey)!

Humph...