Journalist Peter Pheasant is leaving HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk to launch a new website based at the Derby Evening Telegraph.

He is replaced by Patrick Astill, who joined the website after a spell in internal communications at Boots The Chemist. Patrick (32) previously worked as a reporter on the Nottingham Evening Post, Bristol Evening Post and the Lincolnshire Echo.

Peter and Elaine Pritchard – now editor of HoldTheFrontPage – jointly launched the site in February.

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