Descent to destruction

Yet another air disaster! Germanwings flight 4U9525 crashed during its route from Barcelona to Dusseldorf when it suddenly descended on the mountains of the French Alps. This is the fourth such disaster which has happened in the last couple of years of aviation history.
We first read about the Alps plane crash in Asian Voice on my smart phone while on holidays in Sharm el Sheikh last week.
I am glad to say that while I am away, I do not miss my favourite Asian Voice and Gujarat Samachar newsweeklies.
I log into the ABPL website in my Nokia’s browser and can then get up to speed on what is happening in England and around the world by reading the two papers on the ABPL website.
It is a great relief and reassurance that the e-editions of these papers are providing me with the facility to read Asian Voice and Gujarat Samachar even from abroad.
In addition, now that I have registered with Gujarat Samachar, I receive a brief version of that paper emailed to me every week as well.
I wonder whether a similar facility is available to readers of other papers. I also wonder however that if people could read the papers online like this then there is little incentive to subscribe to them or to purchase them at the news agents.
Having said this, I will state most categorically that there is no comparison with the hard copies of the actual full sized versions.
However, I must confess that I always pre-empt the arrival of the papers through the post by first having a glimpse on the website a day or so before!
Dinesh Sheth
Newbury Park, Ilford