Lisburn Echo

If this came through my door, I wouldn’t be too impressed. The Lisburn Echo should probably be renamed the Lisburn Shadow… it’s clearly the skinniest newspaper in existence (though it did come in handy for batting away wasps), with a mere sixteen pages (including the back and front covers).
Of these sixteen pages, one page is dedicated to a secondary school advertisement, three pages are all about cars, there’s a page for public notices, another page for services, and a lonely hearts page (or whatever they’re calling them these days). So, if my calculations are correct, that leaves nine pages of news, all of which are taken up by at least half a page of adverts, meaning that there are approximately four to five full pages of just ads (I’ll go with four seeing as I’m generous like that). There’s also an entire page dedicated to the Hillsborough Oyster Festival (or ‘Osyter’ as it is now apparently spelt).
So, we’re now left with four pages of news, including a story on the huge amount of waste produced by the UK despite recycling, an article on ‘Used Clothing Co.’, and a story on the first Dobbie’s Garden World to open in the UK. Exciting.
Well, at least it’s free…