 His next post was Chief Assistant to the Editor of the "Sunday Times", then after a year at "The Times", he was appointed joint Deputy Editor of the "Sunday Times".He left in 1984 to become Editor of the "Western Morning News", but returned to London in 1986 to becoming the founding Editor-in-Chief of "Today".One year later, he returned to the "Sunday Times" as Executive Editor, moving back to "The Times" in 1991.