Today is your last day to get yourself a gift card and an annual subscription to The Herald at an incredible price.
To celebrate Christmas, we're giving readers 20% off an annual subscription to our online service - and throwing a £25 M&S gift card in there, too.
To subscribe, head over to our subscriptions page. You’ll see three options:
- Our Premium subscription, for £1.75 per week
- Our Premium Plus subscription, for less than £2.50 per week
- Our Print Only subscription, which could save you 25% if you enjoy buying the paper.
Our special offer can be found under the “Premium Plus” plan under annual option, and you'll get your gift card through there.
But hurry - this offer ends at midnight tonight.
Why you should take out a Herald subscription?
A subscription will give you access to unrivaled coverage as well as a number of unmissable perks.
With that subscription, you’ll see 80% fewer adverts on our website and have unlimited access to all our stories, including premium articles.
This means you will be able to read The Herald's online coverage from our award-winning team uninterrupted.
As a Herald subscriber, you will also have access to exclusive "Premium" articles. Around one in five of our stories are only available to people who have signed up for a Herald subscription.
These articles are the very best of what we do - written by our top writers across a range of specialisms, from politics, to sport, to business, to arts. They could be analysis, comment, insight, interviews, features, or exclusive investigations.
We also cannot forget about Voices Live, our section created specifically to give our online subscribers exclusive, instant analysis on some of the largest stories in the Scottish news scene each day.
As a subscriber, you'll instantly have access to our new and improved newsletters on The Herald.
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Every weekday at 6pm, you can get our brand new evening political newsletter, Unspun, straight to your inbox.
It promises readers an exclusive analysis of the day in Scottish politics - and a look at what's coming next.
Finally, you will also get access to our enhanced digital package including a news app to keep you up to date on the go and our e-edition of the paper.
You can enjoy the digital page-turning edition of The Herald & Herald on Sunday as well as our magazines and special publications.
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Terms and conditions apply. Offer ends 6th January 2022. Only new UK subscribers are eligible for gift. Subscription auto-renews unless cancelled. Digital subscription will be charged at £91.99 per year. Offer is exempt from gifting subscriptions. Gift will be posted or emailed in January 2022. Any issues with your gift must be made known to the subscriptions department within 7 days of receipt. All digital subscriptions can be cancelled and refunded within 14 days of purchase. Digital subscriptions can be cancelled at any time. This offer is available while stocks last and The Herald reserves the right to change or remove the offer at any time or to offer an alternative gift. Please see www.newsquest.co.uk/digital-subscription-terms-and-conditions for full details
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It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
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