The York Evening Press is looking for a new editor after it was annouced that Liz Page is to become publisher of parent company the York & County Press.

Liz (right) has been editor of the Evening Press since January 1996, and since then it has won many awards, including Newsquest Daily Paper of the Year 2000-2001 for its coverage of the disastrous floods of the millennium year.

She will take up her new role from May 1.

She said: "It has been a pleasure and a privilege to edit the Evening Press for the last seven years. Fires and floods, triumphs and disasters - and the dawn of a new millennium - have all been chronicled in that time.

"Whoever takes over will inherit a top editorial team and I wish them all every success.

"I am delighted to be staying in York and look forward to working with colleagues and contacts to develop our products in the years ahead."

Liz is a member of the board of the Society of Editors, and was the society's first woman President in 2001-2002. She is a member of the Without Walls project to develop a vision for York for the next 20 years, and lives in the city with her journalist husband, Brian, and two teenage children.

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