Mandy Leigh, the award-winning editor of the Stockport Express and the Stockport Times, the former the only paid-for weekly in the North West to have increased its circulation over the past year, is to leave the paper at the end of May.
She is understood to have applied for voluntary redundancy.
Leigh began her career at the Jewish Telegraph where she was latterly sports editor.
She subsequently worked as a freelance feature writer for the Manchester Evening News, as a journalist at the Manchester Metro News and for a variety of North West business publications.
She joined Guardian Media Group in 1993, initially on a part-time basis. She worked her way up through various titles before being appointed editor of the Salford City Reporter & Advertiser in 1997 where she held the position for five years.
She was promoted to her present position in 2002. The Stockport Express has a paid-for circulation of around 15,000 while the two editions of the Stockport Times have a combined free distribution of around 100,000 copies.
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