Shiv News

Shiv News, Brighton’s most insensitively named newsagent, is your basic newsagent/​corner-​shop, although it does sport Brighton’s worst service, selection and price. It’s worth going to to look at the sign outside in disbelief, but don’t go in.
Yes, it is called Shiv News. I’m sure it means something else in another language, but to see a newsie called Shiv News selling papers about stabbings really appeals to my love of black humour. I think most Brits have some kind of funny-​bone for this kind of bizarre humour: it is strangely funny every time I walk past.
Beyond musing about this shop’s name, there is little I can say that is positive. The service is atrocious: I’ve been sworn at, treated poorly, charged absolutely excessive card rates… Just rubbish. Add that to the already super-​inflated prices, and the one star review is already more than justified. Mercifully, the selection is quite poor: there’s little reason to have to be faced with prices or the service.
In my mind, this is Brighton’s worst corner-​shop. Badly staffed and run, with a bizarre name that just shrieks bad humour, my only advice is stay away.

Shiv frustrated me… There’s not much you can say when you really need some gum, walk in a store that doesn’t have any prices on its Orbit rack, you hand over a pound and get a penny back…
Obviously its my fault for not asking, but 99p is extortionate for a pack of gum… I was half expecting to find that out that Orbit was a code word for some kind of underground drug that was being dealt from Shiv and Shiv alone. I was unsurprised to see this was not the case… Still, everything else is as you would expect from a news agent, with a particular focus on confectionery, so any sweet tooth should be satisfied here. And the rest of the prices are okay and all.

The latest newspaper headlines have been frightening me as of late. «Man stabbed in apartment» or «Stabbing victim knew assailant» or «Stabbing victim now looking for new apartment far away from assailant.» But due to my repeated visitations to newsagents, I can’t help but glance at the headlines.
Shiv News is another newsagent that I stumbled upon while I was just walking with no destination in mind. There are advertisements splattered on the windows, so the only way to get a look inside is to actually… go inside. They have a wide assortment of magazines, newspapers, the usual selection of snacks and drinks and phone vouchers (I purchased another £5 phone voucher). The staff also have a knack for giving easily understandable directions to tourists who are lost.