A long shot - and I'm happy to pay if anyone can help me out.
I placed an advert in the London Metro free newspaper to appear on Friday 25th July.
I wasn't in London that day, and I'm not certain if my advert appeared.
If anyone still has a copy about, I'm happy to pay you a few quid if you could post it to me.
(I actually paid for both the Evening Standard on 23rd July, which definitely did appear - and Metro 2 days later).
PS Scribus - excellent piece of freeware to produce press-ready artwork.