Adrian Faber, editor of Britain’s best-selling regional newspaper the Express & Star, is to leave the paper at the end of March, publisher Midland News Association announced today.

Faber, who became editor in 2002, will be replaced by Shropshire Star editor and former Express & Star deputy editor Keith Harrison when he leaves the title on Friday 29 March.

He joined MNA in 1998 as editor of the Shropshire Star. Before that was editor at the Gloucestershire Echo, the Bristol Evening Post and the Evening Argus in Brighton.