Guernsey Press Paywall: How to Read Guernsey Press Articles for Free

The Guernsey Press is Guernsey's daily newspaper and the main record of island life. Its reporters sit through the States of Guernsey, the island's parliament, and follow the Policy & Resources Committee, known to everyone as P&R, through its budgets and reform plans. They cover the courts and the prison, housing and the harbour, the parishes and the schools, and the small daily stories that only matter if you live on a 25-square-mile island. Many readers are islanders living away who follow a link from a family member or a social media post, and those links often stop at a subscription prompt. This guide explains how the paywall works and how to read a full story.

How the Guernsey Press paywall works

The Guernsey Press uses a subscriber paywall with a small free allowance. A non-subscriber can open a handful of articles before the body of the story is replaced by a prompt to sign in or subscribe, and the count is kept in a browser cookie. Because the allowance is small, anyone who follows island news closely runs out within a day or two.

The gate is applied in the browser. The site delivers the full text of each article in the page so that search engines can index it, and a script then checks your cookie and hides the body once you are over the limit. A crawler-style reader that fetches the page without running that script receives the complete article. Our explainer on metered versus hard paywalls sets out why that distinction matters.

Our tests on 13 October 2026 through Skip the Paywall:

• A 780-word Guernsey Press report on inmates due for release being held inside for months because of the housing crisis loaded in full, all 25 paragraphs.
• A 501-word Guernsey Press report on P&R facing calls to reveal its reform plan loaded in full, all 15 paragraphs.
• A 444-word Guernsey Press report on a medevac operator taking the States to court over a new contractor loaded in full, all 17 paragraphs.

Read a Guernsey Press article in full

• Copy the article link. Guernsey Press links look like guernseypress.com/news/2026/10/12/headline-slug, with the date in the path.
• Paste it into the box on the home page and press Read Article.
• The story appears in a clean reader view with the headline, byline and full text.

Other approaches

• Library access. The island's public library keeps the print edition, and many UK library services offer regional dailies through PressReader, so it is worth checking whether yours includes the Guernsey Press.
• Newsletters. The site offers email bulletins that summarise the day's stories and link to them. The summaries are free even when the full articles are not.
• Private windows. The free allowance lives in a cookie, so a private window starts it again.
• Related free sources. The States of Guernsey publishes its meeting agendas, policy letters and committee papers on its own website, and much of what the Press reports from the chamber can be traced back to them.

How it compares with other local paywalls

The Guernsey Press behaves much like the mainland local chains. KentOnline uses the same pattern of a full page with a script-applied gate, and it loads in full in the same way. Among the national papers, The i Paper works too. We have not tested the Jersey Evening Post across the water, so we cannot vouch for it yet. The full list of sites that work is kept current.

Subscribe if you read it regularly

The Guernsey Press is a small newsroom covering a jurisdiction of about 65,000 people, and nobody else sits in the States chamber or the Royal Court every day on the island's behalf. If you read it most days, a subscription is the right way to keep that reporting going.