as a result, the herald and weekly times decided to merge the two, and so after one hundred and fifty years, ten months and two days of publication, "the herald" was published for the last time as a separate newspaper on 5 october 1990. the next day, "the sun news-pictorial" published its last edition. the sunday editions of the two newspapers had already been merged. the resulting newspaper had both the size and style of "the sun news-pictorial".