The Sunday Times ... or is it?

[wellinghall]

I walked round to the shop to buy our usual Sunday Times. Leaving, I opened the platic around the magazine sections, and took one out to leaf through on the way home. Hmm, different front cover, must have had a redesign. Hmm, different content too ... hold on, this is from the Sunday Telegraph! As, indeed, all the magazine sections are.

Back to the shop; talk to the assistant; he checks the other copy of the Times on the shelf, only to find that it, too, has the Telegraph magazine sections in. And there were no copies of the Telegraph left on the shelf. But he went into the storeroom, and found me a Times bundle.

And one of the newspaper sections has Brian May on the cover. It's the home and garden section.

Comments

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

The Telegraph now print at the same site as the Times titles, which would explain it if the bundle was shrink-wrapped at the printers'.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

That could well explain it. So how many copies are affected, we wonder? 2 or 2,000?

[sally_maria]

Was the newspaper actually shrink-wrapped with the supplements, or were the supplements shrink-wrapped separately?

My experience is that the supplements get delivered in separate bundles and then need to be put into the papers, and it's not unheard of for the wrong supplements to go in the wrong papers, particularly when the person doing it is half-awake - no, it never happened to me, obviously not guv. ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

The latter - the supplements were wrapped separately.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

How funny.

We had the (full) Telegraph bundle, as I tend to avoid NewsCorp, (and actually we only get a paper when we're out and about), as my daughter said she fancied a big bundle of papers to read all week. I ended up reading a lot more of it than she did so I am not sure I will part with my £2 next time I'm asked to, especially as it was also rather boring. (She also conned me into buying her a very expensive chocolate cake with equally big eyes, on Weds, although she did at least eat that.)

What did Dr May have to say for himself? And, are you planning to go and see their show with Adam Lambert? I wondered about it myself...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'm not planning to go. If it had John Deacon as well, I might, but not with only two of them.

The article was about a badger sanctuary near his house.