UK News: Breaking News & Local
See what's happening right now and what happened today in your city or region.
Total ratings
4.48
(Rating count:
56,331)Review summary
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- Speed of breaking news updates
- Ability to cover various news sources
- Informative and decent user interface
- Works well with smartwatches
- Option to comment without signing in
Cons
- Excessive ads and clickbait
- Subscription required for full article access
- Poor local news updates
- Frustrating app layout and functionality
- Invasive cookie consent pop-ups
Most mentioned
- Too many ads
- Need for subscriptions to read articles
- Poor design and usability issues
- Inconsistent access to local news
- Frequent notifications and pop-ups
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User reviews
Recent rating average:
2.60
All time rating average:
4.48
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-23 |  | | I thought this app has reasonable reviews so I thought I would give it go..... BUT you can't continue to read certain news stories and some news stories require to subscribe and pay. Usual rubbish app and the reviews don't reflect what you find in use are the reviews real I wonder? Look elsewhere my friends this isn't what you are looking for. |
| 2024-12-03 |  | | AVOID. This app is Purley designed to get news websites subscribers i didn't get a single free to read story and the "breaking news" notifications are constant and its hardly ever news worthy, it just wants you to subscribe to a news outlet. Id rather use the bbc news app and i hate the bbc that's how bad this app is. |
| 2024-11-17 |  | | What can I say well to start with you see other peoples points go up to 2.4 k etc in months if not weeks and some get 77 likes for few words and smileys yet sentences get up to 15 likes you get to about 150 points and it sticks yet lower scores go up quickly 😉 very strange app also breaking news quick downloads itself . |
| 2024-11-11 |  | | The only local news you load is by the eastern daily press,and have to subscribe to it ,, totally useless (Breaking News) 👎👎👎 |
| 2024-09-18 |  | | Used to be excellent but now there are a lot of ads and clickbait. Plus they've started charging to read the most interesting stories and we don't have freedom of speech on their comments! Not as good as it used to be. I advise you to look at alternatives or look at the headlines and then search for the story using your usual search engine (Google etc) |
| 2024-08-27 |  | | Excellent I haven't checked it out properly yet only downloaded it the other day it's good for putting comments on story's it gives you breaking news alerts. I recommend |
| 2024-08-09 |  | | An absolute ad fest and badly designed so it looks like your just looking at spam links. I'm not paying for a news harvesting algorithm. Deleted. |
| 2024-07-11 |  | | like the speed of breaking news .. on is always real information ect ..trending - breaking..sports .. alsorts n covers local areas if u wish ect |
| 2024-06-24 |  | | A bit clumsy sometimes but it does what you want. I just wish it was a bit better at letting you share stories. Various sources on it do not have that feature. |
| 2024-05-28 |  | | awful! You decide what I watch, not me! I, want an 'easy select' for Evening Standard, Daily Express etc etc. What I get is a page on Sidcup - 5 light years from where I live. Damned thing asks me where I live. Then, locks up. Doesn't even offer choices. So what use is that? So I've binned it. Is far too complex by trying to cover all bases. Want a Simple choose a paper, read it! This App ain't it. I believe the writer understands it - but he/she/they aren't the majority |
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