TELE readers have been swift to log on and enjoy our exciting new breaking news website since its big launch earlier this week.

A steady stream of users have already subscribed to a fantastic �2.99 deal that signs them up to our premium news, views and sports service.

The introduction of the subscription service follows a full redesign of the www.greenocktelegraph.co.uk website and the introduction of all our top content.

It now offers all the biggest and best headlines, giving readers unrivalled coverage and breaking news updates throughout the day. The small fee of �2.99 a month for the additional content now on the site represents a cost of less than a pound a week.

The Tele website also remains open to ALL of our users, with a wide selection of free read news and sport stories available every single day.

More than 30,000 people have registered for the Tele site amid phenomenal demand over the past year and it has proved a huge success.

Tele editor Anne Caine said: "We have been delighted not only with the numbers of people who have signed up over the last 12 months but also with the very encouraging early response to our subscription offer.

"Although we are asking people to pay a modest fee to access some content on our site, the same number of stories that have always been free to read are still available free of charge - in fact there is more content than ever, with double the number of free stories now on the site every day as compared to just a few months ago.

"We have free to read news AND sports stories. And our opinion section, with views and opinion from across Inverclyde, is now available on the site for the first time, and it's free of charge too.

"What we are asking readers to pay for is not what they received before for free - that is still free - but the vast amount of additional content that we are now providing.

"This also includes our nostalgia-packed Talk of the Towns pages, which have been warmly received not just in Inverclyde, but by expats all over the globe. For those who choose to subscribe to that additional terrific content, the �2.99 deal is exceptional value for money for all our loyal and valued readers.

"The Tele has proudly been the home of local news for more than 150 years and this is an exciting new era for the paper as we deliver a breadth and depth of local content which is unmatched anywhere else.

"Our readers can count on our award-winning and dedicated editorial team delivering the best stories, top exclusives and comprehensive Morton coverage, plus all the up-to-the-minute breaking news right across Inverclyde."