Mirror Group Newspapers has begun the hunt for a Daily Mirror editor to replace Piers Morgan, who was sacked last week. Names in the frame include editor of EMAP-owned magazine Closer and a former Sunday Mirror executive editor Jane Johnson; Sunday Mirror editor Tina Weaver; News of the World editor Andy Coulson; and current Daily Mirror acting editor Des Kelly.
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