What Local Magazines is, and what it is not

Local Magazines is the front page of local news in the United Kingdom: an index of the Firefly local news magazines publishing across the country, and one place to read them. It is not a directory of every local magazine in Britain, and does not claim to be. It brings together 129 titles that each cover their own town or region, and puts the newest journalism from all of them in one place.

We are not a publisher. No article here was written by us. Every headline, summary and photograph belongs to the magazine credited on the card, and every link goes to that magazine’s own site. We host no article text of our own, deliberately: the readers, the advertising revenue and the search authority should reach the magazine that published the story, not the index that points at it.

The magazines listed here publish through Magazine.ad, and their contributors work to the network’s editorial standards, which set out how stories are checked, corrected and complained about. If you write about your own town and want to be published, you can submit content there.

How magazines are listed

A magazine appears here when the network it belongs to has verified that its own domain is genuinely serving its own site. That check is made against the live domain, not against a database field — a magazine whose site moves or lapses stops being listed on its own, without anyone here editing a list.

Coverage is the United Kingdom only. Magazines elsewhere in the network, including its Polish titles, are published on their own national sites rather than here. A magazine is never listed or delisted as a favour, and there is no paid placement in the directory.

Commercial content

Some stories in the network are paid partnerships or advertisement features. Where a magazine has disclosed that, we show its own disclosure on the card, not a generic label, and the link is marked as sponsored for search engines. If a story is commercial, you will be able to see that before you click it.

When the network is unreachable

If the source of this content is temporarily unavailable, the site serves the last good copy it has and says so at the top of the directory, with the time that copy was taken. It will not present saved content as though it were live.

Who runs it

Local Magazines is operated by Firefly New Media Ltd, registered in England and Wales under company number 15716066, and is part of the Magazine.ad network of local news magazines. The terms and privacy policy that apply are the network’s own, held in one place rather than restated here.