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And meanwhile, Page Three of the Sun remains on display in every newsagent and supermarket in the UK.

The SIM card was also purchased in cash from a newsagent without having to provide any identifying details.

Walk up to a newsagent/kiosk, hand over a small amount of money, and voila, you have your news.

Remember the pre-internet days when the porn mags were on the top-shelf at the newsagent?

Imagine browsing a newsagent with all the magazines flickering images trying to compete for attention, like myspace spilt into the real world.

I even saw an antique one in a newsagent in Broken Hill (way outback Australia) a few years ago.

However, my local newsagent sells only a fraction of the magazine titles (conservatively 25%) of what it sold two to three decades ago.

But I persisted and each week I'd go and buy it at the newsagent.

I needed a first class stamp a few years ago in NY and I asked at the local newsagent if they sold them.

The newsagent chain Menzies (plural implied) was pronounced Ming-is-es.

Physically getting into a strip club or having to look the newsagent in the eye as you purchase a porn mag are much higher barriers to access than there are currently.

In Australia, you go to any store or 7-11/newsagent, buy a SIM starter kit, show photo ID and sign a document saying you're not a terrorist, then out in the SIM and activate it online or over the phone.

The typical father going to the newsagent every day to get a newspaper would also buy something like "Glamour" for the wife and "Topolino" (Mickey Mouse) for the kids at least once a week.

Also, in the US most "newsagents" are actually convenience stores with a magazine rack; in Europe, this is very different: every town has (or used to have) a centrally-located, fully-dedicated newsagent stocking as much as it can of every publication under the sun.