The Eastern Daily Press has gone inside for the successor to its long-serving agricultural editor.

Chris Hill, left, currently the paper’s community editor for Dereham, will move to the rebranded role of agricultural, food and farming editor from 22 September.

He succeeds Michael Pollitt, who retired this summer after 30 years as the Norfolk daily’s ‘Mr Farming.’

Said Chris:  “There’s no doubt that Mike Pollitt will be a tough act to follow, but I’m looking forward to getting out there and meeting as many of our region’s farmers as I can, to hear about the issues affecting them, and the innovations which make their businesses a success.”

Other recent job moves in the regional press include:

• Lancaster and Morecambe Newspapers has appointed Gemma Sherlock as a trainee reporter. Sherlock will write for both the Lancaster Guardian and The Visitor, Morecambe.
• Former East Anglian Daily Times and Ipswich Star reporter Jon Vale has joined the Dorset Echo while reporter Lisa Buchan has left the paper.
• David Broome of the Burton Mail has been appointed as the new sports editor at the Staffordshire Newsletter.
• The Coventry Observer’s deputy editor Matthew Bates has left the paper to join the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald.
• The Worcester News has appointed David Cosgrove as a reporter. David was previously a reporter at the Hertfordshire Mercury.

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