Save your cash on this sub Standard effort!

No rest for the wicked!
We were planning a day off, but thought that in these troubled times you might like our top tip for saving 42p as we go into the New Year.
The answer is very simple - if you haven't bought this week's Boston Standard yet, don't bother.
A measly 44 pages include four devoted to a list of last year's news, and six - yes six - pages of "comic" horoscopes.
If the hack who had written these had devoted half the effort to turning out a few stories instead, we would have had something approaching value for money, and not this insult to loyal readers.
Understandably, the paper's circulation is falling, and its owner company Johnston Press fell out of the FTSE 250 last month due to declining revenues.
It also imposed a pay freeze, which, given the state of this week's paper seems entirely justified.
In August, the Standard's circulation was 11,305 ... a year-on-year fall of 6.9%.We know many people who remember the great days of the Standard in the 60s and 70s, when people would queue every Wednesday afternoon to buy their papers hot off the press at the office in Wide Bargate.
In those days the paper was a broadsheet packed with news.
Now, even though the town is probably twice the size, the paper is a shabby, shadowy, cheap (in all but price) and nasty production that goes from bad to worse with each passing week.

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