The editor of the Bath Chronicle, Sam Holliday, has announced his departure from the paper, becoming the latest in a string of high-profile editor departures from publishers Northcliffe Media.

Holliday is leaving the company after six-and-a-half years as editor in chief of Bath News and Media, a role that also saw him edit the Somerset Standard and Somerset Guardian.

In 2007 he oversaw the transformation of the Bath Chronicle from a daily to weekly publication.