Editor of Dundee-based The Courier, Bill Hutcheon, is to step down from the role at the end of March.

Hutcheon, who is taking early retirement, has worked for publishers DC Thomson for 42 years, including eight and a half years as editor of The Courier.

The Courier is a daily broadsheet published in six local editions. A replacement editor will be appointed in due course.

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