David Dinsmore appointed editor of The Sun

THE former editor of The Scottish Sun, David Dinsmore, has been named editor of The Sun.

Scot, Dinsmore – who has been most recently director of operations, for the paper’s publishers, News International – succeeds Dominic Mohan who, it is being widely reported, is taking up a management role.

It is also being widely reported – including here and here –  that Dinsmore will be taking up his new role from Monday.