With our Black Friday sale ending tonight at 23:59, this is your last chance to get unlimited access to The Herald website for a whole year for only £20.
Also get full ad-free access within The Herald app which is available across devices and first look at the digital edition of our iconic newspaper. Don't miss out; this deal will only be available for a limited time.
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The Herald is where Scotland comes together to discuss the issues affecting us all. We have Scotland’s most authoritative and wide-ranging columnists and guest writers who set the agenda that the rest of the media follow. But the only way to take advantage of our full offering is by taking out a subscription.
Click here to get a year of The Herald for only £20.
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Get full website access for a whole year in our Black Friday sale – for the bargain price of £20 (Image: Newsquest)
Terms and conditions:
Terms and conditions apply. Offer ends 3 December 2024 at 23:59 GMT. Offer only valid on ‘Digital’ annual subscriptions. Subscription auto-renews unless cancelled. After the first year, annual subscription will be charged at £62.99 per year on ‘Digital’ subscriptions. Offer is exempt from gifting subscriptions. All subscriptions can be cancelled and refunded within fourteen (14) days of purchase. Non-subscribers have limited access on The Herald app. 'Digital' subscribers do not have access to The Herald Digital Edition. The Herald reserves the right to change or remove the offer at any time.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
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.
Read the rules here