Editor of the weekly Banbury Guardian has revealed he will be leaving less than a month after taking on an expanded role to join the BBC.

Jason Gibbins will become a senior broadcast journalist within the BBC News Online team in Birmingham after 22 years in the regional press and 12 years as an editor.

He was editor at the Daventry Express from 2003 and then at the Banbury Guardian from 2007 to the present day.