1 Johnston Press faces boycott threat over editor axe proposal. Johnston Press is facing the threat of a reader boycott over its proposal to make popular Whitby Gazette editor Jon Stokoe redundant – despite the paper being one of just 13 weekly circulation risers in the UK.

“Whitby folk will not stand for being pushed around by Scarborough in this way. Watch out for a massive backlash!”

3 Montgomery insists Times will remain ‘diverse’. Incoming Times comment editor and Conservative Home founder Tim Montgomerie has brushed aside suggestions the paper is moving towards the political Right.