A NEW editor has been appointed at the Post. She is Suzanne Cleave, 37, who is currently the paper’s deputy editor.

Suzanne was born and bred in Delabole and was educated at the village primary and later at Sir James Smith School, Camelford. She went on to St Austell College to study for her A-levels before gaining a BA Honours degree in English at Plymouth University’s Exmouth campus.

Suzanne joined the Post as a trainee reporter in 2001 and was made deputy editor ten years later. She will be the first female editor in the paper’s 160-year history.

Suzanne lives in Launceston. She and her partner have a three-year-old daughter.

Suzanne said: “I’m very honoured and excited about taking on this role and building on the work of editors before me in making the paper a fantastic weekly read.

“The Post continues to be at the heart of the community, and I look forward to moving the paper further into the digital age. It’s a challenge I’m looking forward to enormously.”

Suzanne succeeds Colin Brent, editor for the past two and a half years, who retires at the end of this week.