Making the front cover of my local newspaper

I have starting working on Indesign to create my local newspaper, these are the page measurements I used:

Here is a mock up of the way I would like the front cover of my newspaper to be layed out:

 I have used the local newspaper "Ham&High" as a guide as to how to layout my newspaper. I measured the gaps between each article as well as the bleed and slug and then used these measurements. I would like to design my local newspaper similar to this layout yet changing a few things around as I feel this layout is slightly cramped and include more images and puffs too make it seem more tabloid like.