Northcliffe’s longest-serving daily newspaper editor John Meehan is leaving the Hull Daily Mail.

Meehan leaves Northcliffe in mid-October when he will be replaced by the editorial director of Cumbrian Newspapers Media Group, Neil Hodgkinson.

Meehan, 47, has been an editor at Northcliffe for14 years, first at the Express and Echo in Exeter and then at the Hull Daily Mail.