All last week I noticed that UK newspapers like the Times/Telegraph , were a day behind in the kiosks at the main station. There were no papers today just a motheaten Sunday Times. Needless to say the assitants at the kiosk know nothing!!
Anybody know whats changed? For the last 5 years I have wandered down to the station got my paper and gone for lunch. (note for modern people: I really like a paper paper and not that internet thingy)

Probably strike related - the Continental editions are usually printed in Belgium, and there was a strike on.

Consider a kindle. The daily rag arrives each morning regardless of Belgian waffles.

I've never seen English newspapers here but only here about 4 or 5 months. Let me know if they come back though.

The Times not the Sun I hope!

I get The Times delivered every morning at 4am, and the Sunday Times each Sunday for £8.50 a month.

That's delivered to my iPad - nothing to bundle up for the paper collection either...

I do alot of reading on my iPad -although I must admit I don't have any newspaper subscriptions.

I would probably only go buy the papers when I'm feeling homesick rather than every day. It would be good to hold something familiar

Just installed the telegraph app it's a chuff a day or 14 a month.

Ipad!

It even opens the page at where you last left the paper. Just a little more simple than leaving the paper folded on the page you were reading.

Christopher

I have also noticed the decrease in UK newspapers - no big, multi sectioned one to read on the train on Sundays. However, a new one to the stands recently is the China Weekly News. Why's that then???

The Sun on Sunday is coming soon


BBC

Down the toilet -- about 10 years ago?

Good news-shops here have
- the Times
- the Daily Telegraph
- the Financial Times
- the Guardian
- the Independent
plus two or three boulevard-journals
and on Sunday
- Sunday Times
- Observer
plus weekly
- the Economist

but this may become a subject to change

Compared to how The Age, the SMH and The Australian have gone down the toilet since, they're actually holding up quite well.

Some of the kiosk shops, Zürich HBF for instance, have newspaper printers that allow you to choose many global newspapers from a list, print them out and pay at the kiosk, what these cost I have no idea as I have never used one

I suspect demand for them became another victim of the internet.
I used to buy the Observer from Zurich HB once in a while & was always a bit pissed off that they left out all the magazines. Same with the Guardian - no Weekend mag included & they still charged 7.50 for them.
As iPads/tablets become more & more ubiquitous, why would you pay £5 for half a paper when you can read either for free on the website or pay £10 a month to download daily iPad editions including the mags?

Didn't the dailies just become sensationalist and the weekend editions purely contain celebrity lists of "likes & "dislikes"?

No - the Daily Mail's always been like that.

Fair point. I've yet to cancel the subsciption for Private Eye though...