Why is The London Weekly claiming a circulation in "the central belt" when the central belt is in Scotland? The answer appears to be found in the media pack of the Metro newspaper in Scotland, which was making the same circulation claims as The London Weekly is – in 2007.

This detail of the investigation into The London Weekly was first mentioned by chrisunlimited in the comments to a Guardian article, but I thought it worth blogging here as we've now cached the Metro's media pack and screengrabs of the salient passages in that and on The London Weekly's website. They're included in this post for your perusal…