Martins is a fairly large newsagents and general store which also houses the Edgeley post office in…read morethe back - it's never been a favourite of mine as everything is so over priced, it's kind of like Apu in the Simpsons when he charges $4 for a $1 tank of gas... a lot of drinks, sweets and food items are so expensive compared with other super markets and corner shops around. I've got to say though that I'm impressed that they open at 6am most mornings - that's when I'm just about stirring so God knows what it's like for the guys who actually have to work here at that time... Ok to pick up newspapers and magazines or hit the post office but avoid if after anything else - go to one of the many pound shops down this way instead...

This is a great classic newsagents. Its one of those old skool ones with the old Daily Telegraphy…read moresign at the top and the windows covered in adverts. Its got the feel of a real community newsagents. Its of course got a good selection of everything you'd expect from a newsagents, and as its so authentic a newsagent, that its not trying to do anything else.

Every Thursday this newspaper pops through my letterbox. Without fail, I put it right on the…read morekitchen table, put on the kettle and flick through the week's 'news'. This invariably involves hippy campaigners in Chorlton trying to save Chorlton Meadows (which last week I found out that they did - well done guys), a local celebrity's top 10 things to do in Manchester (and I use the word celebrity very very loosely), a shooting in Withington or Stretford, the opening of a new deli or bar or toy shop and (my favourite) photos of locals celebrating Paula and Patrick's 50th wedding anniversary or Steve and Vicky's wedding or Adam's welcome back party. All of the photos have captions with the names and ages of the people who appear in them. My boyfriend doesn't understand this. He even went as far as to say that the photos wouldn't even be interesting if they were of famous people. But he doesn't like looking at facebook photos of friends of friends of friends either, so what does he know? In addition to these regular features there are adverts for cars, houses, partners and everything else you'd expect in a local paper. OK, so there are frequent spelling and grammar mistakes, but it's free and I like it!