I deposit 600 pounds on my monzo card and they charge me 16 pounds which is free on other pay…read morepoints.. fraud

Warning, this is more of a rant than a review ... about how it is near impossible to buy my…read morefavourite newspaper after 6pm on a Saturday. I love the Saturday edition of The Guardian and my weekend is not complete if I don't get hold of a copy. On several occasions now I've ended up rushing from supermarket to supermarket in Notting Hill (there's a Tesco, Waitrose and M&S all lined up the hill, another Tesco's next to Holland Park station) to find large stockpiles of The Times but not a single issue of The Guardian. No, I won't buy into Murdoch Press, is this a conspiracy? It's only desperation that drives me into supermarkets in the first place - gone are the days where you had a newsagent's at every corner, especially near the main tube stations ... shops that look like a newsagent's now only sell tourist tad and sweets. Except Embassy News - it really was worth walking up a little further towards Bayswater Road to finally come across Embassy News. Lovely man behind the counter who confirms that they don't pack up their newspapers to return to the distributors before midnight (most supermarkets remove all newspapers by 7pm, hence my panic). Not the most convenient location for me but this may well become a regular haunt as I keep remembering too late that there's something missing in my life.

This is one of those tiny newsagent shops that manages to pack a lot into a small space. It sells a…read morewide range of newspapers and magazines, as well as confectionery, greetings cards, tobacco and a small range of drinks and snacks. Staff are efficient, and it's often busy (lots of people paying their paper bills, so they must have an extensive service of paper rounds). Prices are par for the course (ie a little higher) for a small newsagents.

A small newsagents and convenience store, located in the former sub-post office in this row of…read moreshops in Kensington, just off the Cromwell Road. As well as newspapers and magazines, they sell confectionery, tobacco, stamps, and a small range of food and basic household groceries, and they have a photocopy machine. Friendly and obliging staff.

Very keen. I've won many of their competitions. First I won tickets to a Pogues concert at the O2…read morefrom this newspaper. Then I've won a couple of DVDs and late last year tickets to the Irish Film Festival London. The quirky films were over different venues (Tricycle in Kilburn, Riverside Studios in Hammersmith and a posh art institution on Pall Mall). Very good films and so interesting. Once I've finished with it I give it to the Irish cleaning lady in my block of flats. As with the Irish World Newspaper, I probably wouldn't agree with most of the published opinions. I'm in favour of having Northern Ireland as part of Britain even though I've got two great-grandmothers who were Irish - Murphy and Ryan. But the Irish Film Festival prize last year was most atmospheric taking me to different parts of London!

Good bookshops are dangerous places, and Daunt Books is one of the most dangerous of all. You can…read morelose yourself for hours, browsing through the recommendations temptingly laid out on tables. And while you're queuing to pay, there are more temptations on your way to the till - for book junkies this is worse than the sweet counters in supermarkets! Daunt Books is a small chain of independent booksellers with an emphasis on travel and literature. I like the way they curate their shops and always succeed to find a gift here - but not without buying one or two books to keep myself.

A trip to Holland Park is in order when I feel like I want to treat myself to a view of upscale…read morehomes, eat fancy deli foods, and, a recent discovery, peruse the Daunt bookshop outpost tucked into the main drag there. Compared to the Marylebone locale--the only other Daunt that I've visited--this shop is smaller, quainter, and, on my trip, super quiet. Ahh. I found an interesting-looking book, 'Mendelssohn Is on the Roof', quickly bought it and went on my merry way. http://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/05/books/trying-to-murder-a-statue.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm