The Guernsey Press editor has defended a 10p cover price hike to 75p as “preferable to readers” over making “damaging cuts” to its operations that would harm the newspaper.

The daily title, launched in 1813, has even published an eight-page pullout special “outlining the reasons behind the move” to explain its decision to charge more on the newsstand.

In an online article about the price rise, editor Shaun Green said “now more than ever before we are dependent on circulation revenue”.