Best

Best

Yes, I’ll admit it! I’ve been reading rather a lot of magazines lately. Mainly by virtue of the fact that I went to Scotland for a week in August and travelled by train. It’s a five hour journey and whilst I can quite easily get my head stuck into a good book for such a duration, I do find ... Read review

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SIMPLY THE BEST?

Advantages: Easily readable, light, non-intellectual, aimed at the more mature woman
Disadvantages: A tad old fashioned, but perhaps I am too?

...and stories, money saving tips, best buys on certain products, clothes & hair features as well as fiction, letters, book reviews and puzzles to name but a few.

My conclusion is that I definitely liked this. I felt that it was solid and down to earth and was packed with lots of features, stories and information that made the 70p cover price feel like great value to me. Even better, it looked like it carried a minimal amount of advertising ...
...The magazines strapline is “Britain’s best weekly” and although I thought it was OK, I’m not sure I’d go quite that far, but that’s marketing for you. So, clearly it’s a weekly publication and it’s available in newsagents and other retailers for 70p, which is reasonable value. Subscriptions are also available direct from the publishers “National Magazines” for £44.95 for 51 issues, which means that you’re paying 88p per issue! Well, if I was going ... more

fantasybeliever 26.08.2004 (26.08.2004)
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"Best" isn't brilliant

Advantages: Not too hard for the brain
Disadvantages: Much of a muchness, same style as Bella, Woman etc.

...bill, I decided to buy Best Magazine. I bought issue 23/05 with date 14th June 2005 on the cover. At 70 pence and with the chance to win a trip to Paris, I just had to buy it. You can buy this on every newsagent's stand and every forecourt. It's as common as The Daily Mirror however I don't think you can take a subscription out on this, so you have to make that trip out each Friday. I used to buy Best regularly when it was just an unbelievably ...
...It's www.hairhistories.co.uk, don't tell Best I've told you! Log on and vote for your three favourite hair styles of the 60's, 70's and 80's and then enter your details for a prize draw to get the camera. YOU CANT CON US: A consumer complaint help page. So if your toaster stops toasting, this page will help you sort it. KATRINAS TRUE STORY: Better than the blondet bimbos and their boob jobs. These sisters fight Hodgkin's disease together. I can ...

mrsmopples 16.06.2005 · Read full review
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Nobody does it better

Advantages: cheap and helpful
Disadvantages: some far fetched stories

Best - Magazine read all about it. I won my new boobs on the Radio: Two women, two babies and one man. Best magazine is a weekly magazine aimed at women. It is a great magazine, which can be brought at most newsagents at the cracking price of 64p. I have been buying Best now for over 6 months maybe not every week but when I feel like reading a magazine a always pick up a copy of Best. The front page captures me every time, with its glossy cover, ...
...real life stories. Best magazine is usually about 65 or so pages long, but about 15 of those pages are advertisements for products such as Woolworth's, Ariel colour, Renault Kangoo and many more. Best has a contents page at the front of their magazine so if you want to read about a particular subject, you can find it quick and easy. Best has a wide variety of interesting topics to read each week. Real life - These pages talk about real life stories ...

misslook 24.08.2001 · Read full review
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Sometimes, Your BEST Is Just Not Good Enough

Advantages: Some interesting articles
Disadvantages: Far too much space given to things I'm not interested in

...cover refines this to ‘Britain’s best weekly’. Well, I’m not sure exactly what the competition is like, but this is my opinion, based on the issues for May 15th and 22nd. The magazine costs 64p, but it looks cheap. The pages are thin, the models are thinner. It is a strange contrast between the perfect teeth and perfect skin of the beauty industry employees, and the sheer ordinariness of those in the real-life articles. The ...
...some Selotape, I think it’s best not to comment. I then trawl through colour photos of delicious desserts that I dare not eat, if I ever aspire to fit into those bikinis on page 10. The celeb bit is on page 36-37, where Craig Fairbrass (EastEnders, London’s Burning) and Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing and, erm, not much else) are interviewed. Not really interested in these two, except reading that Craig is 6’ 3” sends me a ...

KarenUK 24.05.2001 · Read full review
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Is Best Really Best?

Advantages: Cheap, easy read
Disadvantages: Tacky, non-challenging

...to just one question: is Best best? BEST FOR TRASHY REAL LIFE STORIES? Probably, yes, if you want really and truly atrociously trashy tales to make you laugh / cry. A typical claim? “My flab saved my life”, “I’m 60, he’s 23, why I love my toy boy husband”, “How can I tell dad I’m a glamour model?” (not, I hasten to add, the same story). Yep, as far as trashy goes, Best’s pretty much got ...
...what you’re after. BEST FOR CELEBRITY NEWS? For a magazine not selling itself on having all the latest gossip (like Ok or Now do, for example), Best doesn’t do badly. They seem to extract a scary amount of pleasure from showing photos of the rich and famous looking the worst they ever have in their lives, but then what’s wrong with that? Seeing as it’s weekly, if I get the latest issue I can often find out some interesting, ...

zoe_page 09.07.2003 · Read full review
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THE NAME IS NOT TRUE

Advantages: Light reading
Disadvantages: Not as eye catching as some others

...two pages titled Its your best club. It contained readers letters and tips. I am 38 but I felt the letters and tips would have been sent by someone like my mother. There was also a peice asking you to join the best club. To do this you had to ring a a number at 75p per minute and calls would last for up to 2 minutes. Some of the real life stories were very interesting, like I lost 13 1/2 stone to look like my mum. There was a true crime story which ...
...found this uninteresting. The Best fashion page tried its best to look young but they focused on Top Tunics (get that sixies look). Fashion and beauty peices took up 5 pages. Next was the cooking and food pages and I have to admit they all looked very nice and took up six pages.All the recipes were the kind my mother would make( eg. Honey mustard roast loin of pork and Herb & Garlic Chicken. I then came to a Snip and Save page. This page offered ...

vichar68 22.02.2007 (16.04.2007) · Read full review
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Here we go again! This is another one of those shows where you are urged to call and vote. How cliche! 'Best Inventions' is a show hosted by ex-Blue Peter presenter Katy Hill and the incomprehensible Rowland Rivron. The bulk of the show features three budding inventors who have all invented some life changing device (or not) and are hoping to hit the big time. They are helped out by three existing inventors who have already had success and have gone past the stage of hardships and rejections. The show that I managed to watch had three, drastically varying inventions. The first invention was a childrens train set that featured no track. Instead, a 'track' of hose pipe, any length and shape, could be placed and the train would stick to it like glue. But I wonder how you would cross the tracks? Hmmmmmm..... The second invention ...

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