A more “streamlined” Sunday Herald designed to better suit the demands of modern living is to be launched this weekend.

The revamped newspaper will have three sections, rather than the previous four, all of which have been reorganised to help the reader find what is relevant to them.

The relaunch coincides with a planned strike by National Union of Journalists members at the paper, on Friday and Saturday.

Editor Richard Walker told holdthefrontpage that the relaunch had been planned for this weekend for some time and it “remained to be seen” what effect the strike would have.

He said the planned changes followed a “collaborative process” at the paper, which saw its team taking a “long, hard look” at what they did, what they did well and what they did not so well.

He said: “The fact is that the image of Sundays where people have an infinite amount of time doesn’t reflect the Sundays of today when people have a lot of demands on their time.”

An expanded first section – with a 52-page sports pull-out – will include news, interspersed with investigations and analysis which had previously kept separate further back.