So it's goodbye to London's Standard, my old paper and to the heart of democracy, local news | Simon Jenkins
Briefly

They could as well have felled Big Ben, drained the Serpentine or butchered the ravens in the Tower. No more daily print edition of the Evening Standard. No headlines...
The Evening Standard, which has announced plans to shutter its daily newspaper in favour of a digital service and weekly magazine, was truly a London institution...
When I first joined the paper (I served as editor from 1977 to 1979), it was edited, printed and dispatched where it had been since its foundation in 1827, in Shoe Lane, just off Fleet Street...
The Standard was an active participant in London's public life. It deserved credit for championing the art centre that was added against the City's wishes to the new Barbican...
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