Ex-Times editor to chair National Trust

By Andy Ricketts, Third Sector Online, 4 July 2008

Former Times editor Simon Jenkins has been appointed as the next chair of the National Trust.

The journalist and author, who will take over the position at the trust ( www.nationaltrust.org.uk ) from Sir William Proby in November, was chosen after a formal interview process. The position involves two or three days' work a week and the appointment is for an initial three-year period. Dame Fiona...

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