newsagent
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newsagents
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noun
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Origin of newsagent
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Michael O'Brien was one of three men wrongly convicted of the 1987 murder of Cardiff newsagent Philip Saunders.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Michael O'Brien was one of three men wrongly convicted of the 1987 killing of Cardiff newsagent Phillip Saunders.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
On 8 September he was recorded in a newsagent reading articles about his alleged escape in the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, before buying the former paper.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2024
Amit Patel, who works in a newsagent opposite Marylebone Train Station said their trade on a Friday had trailed off since the pandemic.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2024
They followed him out of the school and up the road, past the corner newsagent, and across the railway bridge.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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Claire Bailey, who runs the Sun newsagents in Shepshed, Leicestershire, was told in April she had six to nine months to live.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Amjid Hafiz owns Latte Caffe on Abbeydale Road in Sheffield, which has served as a newsagents and sweet shop since it was first built as a toilet.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025
The exterior was used for the 1980s-set ITV underwear drama Brief Encounter, while in 2022 the Disney TV series of Sheffield-based The Full Monty used the store as a newsagents.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2024
But the books and comics were not initially collected by libraries as they were distributed via newsagents rather than bookshops and deemed to be ephemeral.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2023
We count it.We take it to the newsagents.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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