Football photographer Jonathan Moscrop has said goodbye to the Grimsby Evening Telegraph after scoring a top job at Italian photographic agency LaPresse.

Jonathan, (33), flew to Italy this week to take up his dream job with the agency.

He said: "I sent some of my work over last September to see if I could help out when any of the teams travel to England.

"I called and e-mailed several times without reply, then last month when I contacted them to see if I could have my work back to send it elsewhere, I was told the boss had seen the quality of it.

"I was expecting to read that at this moment in time, we have nothing to offer you, but it said we are interested and this is what we can offer you."

Jonathan had covered Grimsby Town Football Club home and away for the Telegraph for the past eight years.

And during that time he has worked alongside five different soccer writers, photographing teams managed by six Grimsby Town managers to provide more than 25,000 pictures for the paper.

But now he is looking forward to a new life abroad, together with his Italian-born wife Erica and their son Edward Allessandro.

Jonathan said: "I love football. I enjoy watching and playing it and it should be the job of a lifetime. It should be absolutely fantastic."

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