Geordie Greig named as new editor

Mr Greig, 48, has worked for the Daily Mail, Sunday Today and The Sunday Times where for five years he was the paper's American correspondent and subsequently literary editor.

He has been editor of the society magazine Tatler since 1999 during which period he took the magazine to its highest ever circulation figure in its 300-year history.

Mr Greig's position will have to be ratified by the Editorial Committee being set up to safeguard the paper's independence.