Browsing: The Metro

The Metro is a freesheet tabloid British newspaper that is politically neutral. The paper never endorses a political candidate and claims to remain neutral in its reporting.

The paper is distributed each morning on trains and buses, and at railway/Underground stations, airports and hospitals across selected urban areas of England, Wales and Scotland. Copies are also handed out to pedestrians.

Prince Harry has lost a High Court challenge against the government’s decision to take away his right to automatic police protection when he is in the UK.

Metro reports a packet of 20 cigarettes is set to rise to £16 as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt launches a war on smoking and vaping in the upcoming spring budget.

The Metro counts the cost of Russia’s war on Ukraine as the second anniversary of the conflict approaches, describing it as “two years of lunacy”. The paper refers to “tyrant” Vladimir Putin’s campaign in Ukraine, which the paper says has killed at least 10,000 Ukrainians.

Metro leads on claims David Cameron’s government knew the Post Office dropped a secret investigation that could have proved the innocence of jailed sub-postmasters. It adds that ministers were told about the probe in 2016 but it was “ditched” by the Post Office anyway.