This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2007)

This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. No cleanup reason has been specified. Please help improve this article if you can; the talk page may contain suggestions. (June 2010)

Metro is a tabloid free newspaper available in parts of the United Kingdom and published by Associated Newspapers Ltd (part of Daily Mail and General Trust). It is distributed from Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays) on many public-transport services in selected urban centres across the United Kingdom and at a few other outlets such as selected cafes, workplaces etc. Distributors have also been employed to hand out copies to pedestrians.

History[link]

The paper was launched in London in 1999, and can now be found in several UK urban centres, plus some smaller railway stations. Localised editions are produced for Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Derby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Nottingham, Newcastle and Sheffield.^[1] It is part of the same media group as the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday, although in some areas, the paper operates as a franchise with a local newspaper publisher, rather than as a wholly owned concern.

The Metro concept comes from Sweden. Metro International, a different company, launched in the UK in 1999 and in Newcastle upon Tyne was distributed side by side with the Associated Newspapers' version on the Tyne and Wear Metro system. After battling alongside the Associated Newspapers' version with the same name, it changed its name to Morning News. It was short-lived, however, and Morning News was discontinued shortly afterwards (see Metro International). They have had plans to launch a rivalling free evening newspaper in London.^[2] Similarly, Rupert Murdoch is said to have regretted missing the opportunity of launching his own London paper. However, News International, a UK subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corporation, launched a London-based newspaper in 2006 called thelondonpaper. This was closed on 18 September 2009.

Content[link]

The newspaper was designed to be read in 20 minutes, containing small stories rather than big political or world news that would feature in non-tabloid newspapers, such as The Times or The Guardian.

The features section contains a mix of articles on travel, homes, style, health, celebrity life and so on, as well as extensive arts coverage and entertainment listings. The puzzles page contains the cartoon strip Nemi (by Lise Myhre), 118 118 (by Clive Collins) (advertisement comic strip) and This Life (by Rick Brookes), astrology readings by Nikki Harper, and Sudoku. Previously, it featured a crossword (in place of the sudoku puzzle), David J. Bodycombe's Think Tank brainteasers and a Judge Dredd strip. Since November 2011, it has featured the cartoon strip Buckles (by David Gilbert).

On 8 July 2009, the online version of Metro was merged with London Lite.^[3] This may have broken the site, or it may even have been hacked, as clicking on the T&C link leads only to a short page of yell.com links. Clicking on the Contact link leads to the same page, which means that this issue cannot be reported to Metro's admin.

In 2005, Metro launched a science page called MetroCosm. This is written, illustrated and edited by Ben Gilliland^[4] and has received acclaim from scientists and the public alike for its accessibility, accuracy and its fearless approach to complex subjects. In 2010, Ben Gilliland was nominated for the Arthur C Clarke award for Best Space Reporting and again in 2011 for the Arthur Clarke award for Achievement in Space Media. There is an online version (run by Ben Gilliland) called CosmOnline.^[5]

With the announcement of the UK General Election, Metro's ownership by Daily Mail and General Trust has seen it following the lead given by the paid-for Daily Mail in taking an openly pro-conservative line. This has seen it publishing a series of front page articles and headlines supportive of the Conservative Party and critical of both the previous Labour Government and the Liberal Democrats.

Distribution[link]

In its first five years, it achieved a readership of over 1 million daily readers, making it the UK's fourth largest daily newspaper, after The Sun, the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror. In October 2008, its total certified distribution for that month was 1,361,306. It now prints approximately 1.3m copies daily, and officially has some 3.5m readers, as of March 2010.^[6]

[edit] Metro Herald (Ireland)

The Dublin freesheet Metro Herald is similar in layout and content to its British counterpart, as Associated Metro provides much of the content.^[7] It merged with its main competitor Herald AM (published by Independent News and Media's Evening Herald) to form the Metro Herald.

Metro Ireland was launched on 10 October 2005, as was Herald AM. Both titles were loss making, despite a circulation of 145,000 between them in the greater Dublin area. The merger of the two titles faced scrutiny by the Competition Authority as the resulting match up drew together IN&M (publishers of the Irish Independent) and The Irish Times (the two Dublin-based broadsheets).^[8] On Thursday 2 July 2009, it was announced that the two freesheets were to merge,^[9] and by 2010 this merger was complete.^[10]

See also[link]

• GameCentral

References[link]

External links[link]

• Metro News Online version of Associated Newspapers' Metro newspaper
• Metro.mobi Mobile version of Associated Newspapers' Metro newspaper
• Hot off the Press, Steve Auckland, Metro MD discusses setting up the newspaper
• e-Metro Digital version of Associated Newspapers' Metro newspaper
• Metro Ireland
• e-Metro Ireland Digital version of Metro Ireland
• CosmOnline Online version of Metro's popular science column by Ben Gilliland (not owned by Metro)

v t e Media in the United Kingdom   Newspapers, magazines and other periodicals Newspapers National Berliner: The Guardian · The Observer · Broadsheet: Financial Times · The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph · The Sunday Times · Compact: i · The Independent, The Independent on Sunday · The Times · Middle-market: Daily Express, Sunday Express · Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday · Tabloid: Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror · Morning Star · The People · Daily Star, Daily Star Sunday · The Sun · Sunday Sport Regional and local Local newspapers in England · Regional newspapers in England · Newspapers in Northern Ireland · Newspapers in Scotland · Newspapers in Wales Other resources Defunct newspapers · Editors · Fleet Street · History · Journalists · Specialist newspapers · List by circulation Magazines and other periodicals Arts magazines · Business magazines · Comics · Defunct magazines · Fashion magazines · Literary magazines · Political magazines · Satirical magazines · Science and technology magazines · Women's magazines · List of magazines by circulation   Radio National stations BBC Analogue/digital: Radio 1 · Radio 2 · Radio 3 · Radio 4 · Radio 5 Live · Digital: Radio 1Xtra · Radio 4 Extra · Radio 5 Live Sports Extra · 6 Music · Asian Network · BBC National DAB (multiplex) Commercial Analogue/digital: Absolute Radio · Classic FM · Talksport · Digital: Absolute 80s · Absolute Radio 90s · Absolute Radio Extra · Amazing Radio · BFBS Radio · Digital One (multiplex) · Jazz FM · Planet Rock · Premier Christian Radio · Smooth Radio UK · UCB UK Regional and local stations BBC List of BBC Local Radio stations · List of BBC Regional Radio stations Commercial List of community radio stations · List of local commercial radio stations · List of semi-national analogue and digital stations Other stations List of hospital radio stations · Pirate radio · Restricted Service Licence (List of RSL stations) · List of satellite radio stations · List of student and schools radio Other Broadcasting companies · Broadcasting House · FM broadcasting · MediaCityUK · People · Programmes · Radio Academy · Radio Independents Group · RAJAR · Sony Radio Academy Awards · Most-listened-to programs   Television Principal channels BBC Analogue/digital: BBC One · BBC Two · Digital: BBC Three · BBC Four · BBC News · BBC Parliament · CBBC · CBeebies · BBC Alba · HD: BBC HD BSkyB Digital: Challenge · Pick TV · Sky1 · Sky2 · Sky 3D · Sky Arts · Sky Atlantic · Sky Betting and Gaming · Sky Living · Sky Livingit · Sky Movies · Sky Movies Box Office · Sky News · Sky Sports · Sky Sports F1 · Sky Sports News Channel Four Analogue/digital: Channel 4 · Digital: E4 · Film4 · More4 · 4seven · S4C Channel 5 Analogue/digital: Channel 5 · Digital: 5* · 5USA ITV Network Analogue/digital: ITV · Digital: ITV2 · ITV3 · ITV4 · CITV UKTV Digital: Alibi · Blighty · Dave · Eden · Gold · Good Food · Home · Really · Watch · Yesterday Services and platforms 4oD (Film4oD) · Analogue (Analogue terrestrial) · BBC iPlayer · blinkbox · BT Vision · Cable · Demand 5 · Digital (Digital terrestrial · List of channels) · Freesat (Freesat+ · List of channels) · Freeview (Freeview+) · Freewire (List of channels) · High-definition (List of channels) · ITV (ITV Player · STV Player) · Real Digital · Restricted Service Licence · Satellite (List of channels) · Sky (Freesat from Sky · Sky Anytime · Sky Anytime+ · Sky+ · Sky+ HD · List of channels) · Smallworld Cable (List of channels) · TalkTalk TV (List of channels) · Top Up TV · TVCatchup (List of channels) · Virgin Media (FilmFlex · TiVo · V+ · List of channels) · WightCable · YouView · Zattoo (List of channels) Studios BBC Pacific Quay · BBC Television Centre · Broadcasting House · Broadcasting House (Cardiff) · The Fountain Studios · The Leeds Studios · MediaCityUK · Granada Studios · Roath Lock · Teddington Studios Other Awards · Defunct channels · Edinburgh International Television Festival · History (List of years) · List of channels · Production companies · Programmes · Student television · Viewing statistics (Most-watched broadcasts)   Companies and organisations Companies Major companies Aegis Group · Archant · BBC · Bloomsbury Publishing · British Sky Broadcasting · BT Group · Channel Four · Chrysalis Group · Daily Mail and General Trust · Economist Group · EMAP · EMI Group · Endemol UK · Global Radio · Guardian Media Group · Haymarket Group · Informa · IPC Media · ITN · ITV · Johnston Press · Mecom Group · News International · Newsquest · Northern & Shell · Pearson · Press Holdings · Reed Elsevier · Reuters · STV Group · Syco · TalkTalk Group · Trinity Mirror · UBM · UTV Media · Virgin Media Other resources Broadcasting companies · Defunct media companies · Publishing companies (List of largest UK book publishers) · Record labels Government and regulatory bodies Advertising Standards Authority · BBC Trust · British Board of Film Classification · British Film Institute · Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee · Department for Culture, Media and Sport · Ofcom · Press Complaints Commission · UK Film Council · Welsh Fourth Channel Authority Industry and trades bodies British Academy of Film and Television Arts · British Phonographic Industry · Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union · Clearcast · Digital TV Group · Digital UK · Equity · Federation Against Copyright Theft · National Union of Journalists · The Publishers Association · Royal Television Society · United Kingdom Independent Broadcasting Other BBC Academy · National Film and Television School · National Media Museum   Regional and student media Regional media Media in England (Media in Birmingham · Media in London · Media in Manchester) · Media in Northern Ireland · Media in Scotland (Media in Aberdeen · Media in Dundee · Media in Glasgow) · Media in Wales (Media in Cardiff) Student media Student television Category ·  Commons

Look up metro in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Metro is an abbreviation of metropolitan, and is the name of many products and services relating to urban areas, especially public transport systems.

Public transport[link]

Rapid transit systems[link]

• Metro (rapid transit), a passenger railway system in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency
• Metro, the name of hundreds of rapid transit networks around the world, named after the Paris Métro (see List of metro systems#List)

Non rapid transit rail networks[link]

These networks are not rapid transit systems, and are excluded from the list mentioned above.

• Metro Light Rail (Phoenix), in the Phoenix metropolitan area, Arizona, United States
• Metrolink (Manchester), a light urban tram system in Greater Manchester, UK
• MetroTrain, the rail services co-ordinated by Metro (West Yorkshire) in England
• Metro Trains Melbourne, the operator of the suburban railway network in Melbourne, Australia
• Muni Metro, the light rail system serving San Francisco, California, United States
• Tranz Metro, commuter rail in Wellington, New Zealand

Bus services and other transit authorities[link]

• King County Metro, serving King County, Washington and the Seattle metropolitan area
• Madison Metro, serving Madison, Wisconsin, United States
• Metro (Belfast), bus services in Northern Ireland
• Metro (Christchurch), the brand for co-ordinated public transport in Christchurch, New Zealand
• Metro (Houston) or the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, responsible for rail and bus systems in the Greater Houston area, Texas, United States
• Metro (St. Louis), the brand for the Bi-State Development Agency, serving St. Louis, Missouri, United States
• Metro (West Yorkshire), the brand adopted by the West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive in England
• Metro Tasmania, a state owned bus company that is the major public transport provider in Tasmania's five main population centres
• Metro Transit (disambiguation), a name used by multiple bus services
  • Metro Transit (Halifax), serving Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Metro Transit (Kalamazoo), serving Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
  • Metro Transit (Minnesota), serving the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area, United States
  • Metro Transit (Oklahoma City), serving the Oklahoma City metropolitan area, United States
• Metrobus (disambiguation), a name used by multiple bus operators
• NFTA Metro, in Erie and Niagara counties of New York, United States
• Swansea Metro, a bus rapid transit line in Wales
• Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, branded Metro, responsible for rapid transit metro and bus systems in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding suburbs, United States
• Metro, the brand for the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, United States, responsible for rail and bus systems

Airports[link]

• Detroit Metro Airport, Michigan, United States
• Metropolitan Airport, Palmer, Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States

Education[link]

• Metro Academic and Classical High School, a high school in St. Louis, Missouri, United States
• Metro State College in Denver, Colorado, United States
• Metro State University in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

Entertainment[link]

Books[link]

• Metro 2033 (novel), a novel written by Russian author Dmitry Glukhovsky
• Metro 2034, another novel by Dmitry Glukhovsky

Film[link]

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), the leading film studio during the first half of the 20th century
  • Metro Pictures, one of MGM's predecessor companies
• Metropolis (film), a 1927 silent film directed by Fritz Lang
• Metro (1997 film), a 1997 film starring Eddie Murphy
• Life in a... Metro, a 2007 Bollywood film starring Shilpa Shetty
• The Metro (film), a 2011 Malayalam-language film

Games[link]

• Metro 2033, a first person shooter video game published by THQ
• Metro: Last Light, an upcoming sequel to Metro 2033

Music[link]

Artists[link]

• Metro (Hungarian band), a Hungarian rock band in the 1960s and 1970s
• Metro Station (band), an alternative rock group with hit single "Shake It"
• The Metros, an English indie band

Songs[link]

• "Metro" (The Vincent Black Shadow song), a 2006 single by the Canadian band The Vincent Black Shadow
• "The Metro" (song), a 1983 single by American new wave band Berlin

Companies and venues[link]

• Metro Chicago, a popular music venue in Chicago, United States
• Metro Recordings, a record label
• The Metro Theatre, a music venue in Sydney, Australia

Language[link]

• The word for metre, a unit of length, in several languages including Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
• Metrosexual, a neologism for a heterosexual male

Government[link]

• Metro (Oregon regional government), the regional government for the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon, United States
• Metropolitan Toronto, the former municipal government body of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in Nevada, United States

Media[link]

Broadcasting[link]

• Metro Broadcast Corporation, with a variety of Hong Kong based Metro-branded radio stations
• Metro FM, a national radio station in South Africa
• Metro Radio, a radio station in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England
• Metro TV, Indonesia's first 24-hour news channel

Magazines[link]

• Metro (magazine), a monthly lifestyle magazine published in New Zealand
• Metro Magazine, a trade magazine published for bus and rail transit and motorcoach operators since 1904 (since 1975 under that title)

Newspapers[link]

• Harian Metro, a newspaper published in Malaysia
• Metro (Belgian newspaper), separate versions in Belgium's two main languages, published in Brussels
• Metro (British newspaper), a free daily newspaper in the United Kingdom and Ireland
• Metro International, a Swedish media company that runs dozens of city and country editions in Europe, Asia and the Americas
• Metro Newspapers, a newspaper company in California, United States, which publishes:
  • Metro Santa Cruz, the former name of a weekly newspaper published in Santa Cruz, California, later renamed the Santa Cruz Weekly
  • Metro Silicon Valley, a weekly newspaper published in San Jose, California
• Zimbabwe Metro, a newspaper published in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Populations[link]

• Metro, Indonesia, a city in Lampung, Indonesia
• Metropolitan area, a large population area and its adjacent zone of influence
  • For individual metropolitan areas, see the list of metropolitan areas by population

Retail businesses[link]

• Metro (department store), a department store chain based in Singapore
• Metro (supermarket, Greece), a Greek supermarket chain
• Metro (supermarket, Indonesia), previously an Indonesian supermarket operator* Metro AG, Germany's largest retailer
• MetroCentre (shopping centre), largest indoor shopping mall in the European Union, located in Gateshead, England, UK
• Metro Cash and Carry, a cash-and-carry hypermarket chain owned by Metro AG
• METRO Foods Trading, retailer in Cyprus
• Metro Inc., a Canadian supermarket chain

Sport[link]

• Metro (wrestler), a Mexican masked luchador
• Metro Conference, a defunct NCAA Division I athletic conference
• Metro F.C.
• MetroStars, a former United States Major League soccer club, now known as New York Red Bulls

Technology[link]

• Metro (design language), crafted by Microsoft for Windows Media Center, Zune, Windows Phone 7, Windows 8 and Xbox 360 Dashboard
• GlassFish Metro, an opensource web service stack that is part of the GlassFish project
• Metro Ethernet, a computer network based on the Ethernet standard and which covers a metropolitan area* Metro, former code name of the XML Paper Specification, Microsoft's document framework

Vehicles[link]

• Austin Metro, or MG Metro, produced by Austin Rover in Europe
• Fairchild Metro, a turboprop, 19-passenger commuter airliner
• Geo Metro, sold by General Motors in the United States
• International Harvester Metro Van, a delivery van made by International Harvester

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

Look up British in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

The word British is an adjective referring in various ways to the United Kingdom or the island of Great Britain and its people and language.

People

• British people, Britons, or Brits, subjects of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, one of the Channel Islands, or of one of the British overseas territories, and their descendants
• Britons (historical), ancient Celtic inhabitants of the island of Great Britain south of the Firth of Forth.
• British nationality law, which governs the citizens of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the British Crown dependencies

Language

• British English, the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom
• British language (Celtic), also known as Brythonic, the ancient Celtic language once spoken in Britain, ancestral to Welsh, Cornish and Breton

Geography

• British Isles, an archipelago in north-western Europe
• British Islands, a legal term describing the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, collectively
• British Empire (historical), the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom when it was an imperial power
• British Commonwealth, an organisation of member-states mostly from the former British Empire

Other

• British cuisine
• British Airways, flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom

See also[link]

• Alternative words for British
• Britain (disambiguation)
• Britishness

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

This article may contain original research. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding references. Statements consisting only of original research may be removed. More details may be available on the talk page. (November 2010)

Zane Lowe
Playing at Radio 1's Big Weekend
Birth name	Alexander Zane Reid Lowe
Born	(1973-08-07) 7 August 1973 (age 38) Auckland, New Zealand
Show	The Zane Lowe Show
Station(s)	BBC Radio 1
Time slot	7–9pm Mondays–Thursdays
Style	Disc Jockey
Country	United Kingdom
Children	Jackson and Lucius
Website	zanelowe.com

Zane Lowe (born Alexander Zane Reid Lowe on 7 August 1973) also known as 'Zipper', is a radio DJ and television presenter. He was born in New Zealand and grew up in Auckland,^[1] where he was a presenter on the local music station Max TV, before moving to England.^[2] He presents BBC Radio 1's evening show, where he plays a variety of alternative music, including rock, punk, dance, drum and bass, and hip hop. He was also the presenter of the MTV Rocks show Gonzo, having been a former VJ on MTV since 1997, where he presented Brand:New.^[2] Lowe currently resides in London with his wife and two sons, Jackson and Lucius. He is best known for his boundless sycophancy.

Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1[link]

Lowe about to take the decks at a Radio 1 event in Preston

Lowe's radio show can be heard on Mondays to Thursdays from 7pm to 9pm. Past and present features on his show have included:

• On Mondays, Fresh Meat is where the show's chatroom rate three songs from three upcoming bands; the winning track is played throughout the rest of the week
• The Hottest Record In The World this week, where a song from a hotly-tipped band or new album is played
• Sunsetter where a more mellow track is played as the sun sets each night, (seasonal)
• Encore, when listeners can text in to request a repeat of a track that has already been played, the winning track being the track most requested. (discontinued)
• U-turns, a phone-in request slot (signified by 'the screech and the beat'), also discontinued (now 'What have we missed')
• Crowd Rocker, where an anthem from the past is played (discontinued)
• Mixtape, a ninety minute themed mix which only broadcasts to listeners in England while the rest of the UK do their regional shows (Discontinued)
• Live performances and interviews with bands and artists

Lowe reading the papers while sitting next to Edith Bowman at Glastonbury 2007.

Lowe's method of DJing is rather enthusiastic and fast-paced, similar to many hip hop DJs, with samples of radio stations, interview clips and Radio 1 stings thrown in between songs, along with the occasional sound of Lowe singing along to the music.

He is extremely dedicated to new music, and many of the bands or musicians who won Fresh Meat have gone on to be very successful; Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, The Killers, Editors, Kasabian, The Wombats and Kaiser Chiefs are examples of bands who have benefited.

Zane Lowe played "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley for the first time on radio. The song was frequently played on Radio 1 thereafter, helping it to reach number one on the UK Singles Chart on 2 April 2006. "Crazy" was the first song in British history to go to number one based on sales of legal downloads alone; the download was made available a week before physical copies went on sale. The song also featured in Zane Lowe's TV advert, which aired in early 2006.

Prior to Muse and Foo Fighters emerging onstage at their concerts at Wembley Stadium, Lowe 'entertained' the crowd on DJ decks. More recently Zane Lowe played a large role in the Festival/Large concert "Warrior's Dance" hosted by The Prodigy, and DJ'd two sets through the evening.

Masterpieces[link]

Between 2007 and 2011, one week of Zane Lowe's show was dedicated to albums considered 'masterpieces'. Each show focused on a different album which Lowe and his team considered to be a bonafide classic. The first half of the show was dedicated to interviews and an in-depth look at the album's cultural impact. In the second half of the show, the full unabridged album was played in its entirety, complete with gaps and no lyric censorship.