An under-threat student newspaper has been saved from extinction after a regional publisher’s donation.

The Student, the paper of the University of Edinburgh’s student population and the oldest title of its kind in Europe, had been threatened with closure in print after 136 years following a major advertiser’s decision to pull funding.

However, a donation of £730 by Dundee-based publisher DC Thomson has now seen The Student pass the threshold of a fundraising target it had set in order to keep publishing.

DC Thomson’s Discovery Print business has printed the title for the past five years.

Craig Bertie, production manager at Discovery Print, told HTFP: “We’ve been printing The Student since 2018 and when we heard that they were in danger of stopping publishing after 136 years in print we thought we’d try and help where we could.

“The future of journalism depends not only on creative, enquiring minds reporting on subjects that matter to them, but audiences appreciating the value of quality journalism.

“The Student exemplifies this, and their determination to keep going is something we heartily support.”

Joe Sullivan, The Student’s editor-in-chief, told BBC Scotland News: “We are so overjoyed, I mean we have hit double our initial goal.

“We couldn’t ask for more really, we’re all really excited and really grateful.

“The donations have come in from all kinds of people but the most heartening to see has been people in the student community, members of our audience who just want to see us keep printing.”

The Student was founded in 1887 by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson, who became its art editor shortly after its creation 136 years ago.

Former reporters at the paper, which prints 750 copies fortnightly and is distributed to more than 20 hubs across Edinburgh, include Helen Pidd, Gordon Brown, Laura Kuenssberg, Robin Cook and James Kirkup.