Heat editor, Mark Firth, is to leave Heat magazine after 10 years.

Firth started at Heat in 1997 as deputy editor and was appointed as editor in 2000.

Julian Linley, editor of Heatworld.com and former editor of now defunct celebrity news title first will take over from Firth as acting editor.

Heat was recently acquired by Bauer Consumer Media from Emap.

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