In an almost unprecedented example of something London doesn’t need but is bloody well getting anyway, a new London free paper is due to launch in the capital on February 1 next year. The London Weekly will apparently be distributed at train, Tube and bus stations on Fridays and Saturdays.

But don’t worry, the London Weekly is different. Instead of employing loads of those lazy professional writers, 30 per cent of the newspaper’s content will be generated by readers. After all, who needs nice words and pretty pictures when you’ve got Joe J Johnson from Hackney ranting about his local roadworks with accompanying snaps from his mobile?

Content will be drawn from “entertainment, light politics, music [and] sports”. Sounds fairly identical to the editorial offered by London Lite and the London Paper, which both recently closed shop, so it’s unclear what the paper will be able to do differently to avoid the same fate.

So in conclusion: a new freesheet - good news for people who like their politics light, bad news for street cleaners. And trees.

(Source: The Guardian)