A quick question...

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tim Regan" 
<tim_regan82 at h...> wrote:
> Hi All (especially Iggy)
> 
> The ones June gave you are the right `serious' ones. You'd want to 
> consider The Sun, The Daily Mail (called the Mail), The Daily 
> Express (called the Express) if you want tabloids.
> 
> Moving the other way, The Finacial Times is a broadsheet that has a 
> deeper focus on business news. It's very dry but is printed on 
> distictive pink paper
> 
> If it's a Sunday then The Times becomes The Sunday Times (and is 
> enormous) and The Guardian becomes The Observer.
> 
> In the olden days, many of these papers had different names, e.g. 
> The Guardian was The Manchester Guardian. 

Geoff:
changed its name in the 60s (I think). I used to read it in its MG 
days....



> Some also have nick-names, 
> e.g. The Guardian was known as The Grauniad becase of its terrible 
> spell checking.

Geoff again:
The Times was known in its much earlier days as The Thunderer. It is 
very much a top-drawer paper and carries things like the Court 
Circular - the doings of the Royal Family etc




 
> While the big UK papers are all national, there is another London 
> paper of note. The (London) Evening Standard is often read by 
> commuters travelling home since it contains news that broke after 
> the national dailys were printed.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Dumbledad.