Newspapers : Free Birmingham newspapers

[arcaduran]

Anybody remember or know the name of the local (I think free) newspaper that had a game where you had to find a little stickman in the pages?

 

[RobT]

Nothing to do with Martineau Gardens was it?

 

[jmadone]

Anybody remember or know the name of the local (I think free) newspaper that had a game where you had to find a little stickman in the pages?

I can recall that a weekly magazine had such a figure hidden in it's pages somewhere. It was either Reveille, Tit Bits or something like that.

 

[arcaduran]

i remember that game. the only free paper i remember was the bham bargain pages,

Not sure why but I can't get the name (for the paper)of ABC out of my head!

 

[arcaduran]

Nothing to do with Martineau Gardens was it?
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No it was definitely a newspaper

 

[RobT]

Apparently in 1984 the Birmingham Daily News came out as Europe's first free newspaper.
In 1991 we had Birmingham Metro News
Finally in 1999 we had the METRO which was given free to commuters travelling by public transport.

 

[Eric Gibson]

Long before that, late 1950s early 60s RobT we had a free newspaper in Brum which I think was called The Planet, I haven't been able to find anything about it though.

 

[sospiri]

Eric,

Several references to it on Google including this one - http://www.birminghamforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=12010.0

Maurice

 

[carolina]

Wasnt there one called 'The Voice'?

 

[jmadone]

Not sure why but I can't get the name (for the paper)of ABC out of my head!

There used to be a free circulation advertising paper in the late 60s early 70s called "The ABC Advertiser". It came out weekly and was full of private and commercial advertisements for goods and services.

 

[Eric Gibson]

Thanks Maurice, I obviously wasn't looking in the right place.