Wiltshire Times editor Toby Granville is leaving the paper to become assistant editor at the Oxford Mail.

He has been in his current job for two years and will replace Peter Unsworth, who retired in July.

Before moving to Wiltshire, he spent two years as editor of The Wharf, a free weekly tabloid covering the Docklands area of London.

Toby, (31, pictured left), also edited the Recorder Review, a 24-page entertainment publication covering south Essex, for four years and worked as a freelance showbusiness reporter for newspapers and magazines.

Prior to that, he spent three years on the show business desk of the Sunday People, where he started his career at the age of 17.

During his time at the Wiltshire Times, the paper has consistently increased sales and earned a reputation as a vigorous, campaigning weekly. It is the current Newsquest Weekly Newspaper of the Year and Newspaper Society South West Newspaper of the Year.

Toby will have a wide-ranging role at The Mail, covering all areas of editorial.

Mail editor Simon O'Neill said: "I've known him for four years now and worked with him during my time in Wiltshire. He will bring so many skills to the Mail at an important period in its development."

Toby said: "The last couple of years at the Wiltshire Times have been the best of my career so far, and I will miss the team enormously.

"However, after 14 years on weeklies, I feel the time is right to embark on a new challenge in daily newspapers. The Oxford Mail is a terrific newspaper and I look forward to playing a major part in its continuing success."

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