All change

It's all go in the newsroom this week - quite literally.
On Wednesday our esteemed editor Lindsay Coulson will be hanging up her green visor and braces (okay, she doesn't wear these, but one day I hope to encounter an editor who does) and moving off to pastures new. Actually, there aren't many pastures where she's heading, as she's off to Westminster to work for its council press office.
Also this month we are losing our much-loved sports editor John Comfort, who will no doubt be familiar to our readers, many of whom will have spend a drizzly Saturday afternoon stood shoulder-to-shoulder with him on the borders of various sports fields, watching the borough's hopefuls throw themselves around in the mud.
And finally (at least I hope this is all for now), our news editor Emily Twinch is weeks away from departure, having returned from a holiday in Cuba and handed in her notice. Rumours of her joining the revolution several years too late are, I'm assured, unfounded.
This all leaves us with a rather bare looking news desk, but thankfully reinforcements are on their way. In this case the reinforcements come in the shape of David Tilley, the content editor at the Uxbridge Gazette, who next week is being tranferred across to take the helm here at the Observer.
A new editor is always an interesting time for a paper, as they bring their own ideas, style and enthusiasm to it. Observant readers can quite quickly spot when this happens, as often regular features which are not working out are dropped and new and exciting ones appear in their place.
I won't take any guesses as to what David has in store for the Observer, but keep your eye's peeled over the next few months and I bet you can spot them yourself.