Sunday Times media correspondent Dipesh Gadher has been appointed deputy news editor at the weekly paper, it was reported this week.

The 33 year-old journalist, who started his journalist career at Asian paper Eastern Eye, has been with the paper for 10 years.

The rising star at News International has gotten significant scoops in the past, include naming the first Briton sent to Guantanamo Bay. He had to break the news to Feroz Abbasi’s mother at her home in Croydon after he’d decided to move in with his friend Abu Hamza at Finsbury Park mosque a year earlier.

More recently he accompanied Tony Blair on his final tour of Middle East as Prime Minister.

Dipesh started as a junior reporter at Eastern Eye after graduating from Nottingham University with a degree in Politics. He eventually became news editor and later joined the Sunday Times as a graduate trainee in 1998, covering general news.

There he was assigned to various stories including the Bradford/Oldham riots and the rise of Islamist extremism. He was then assigned to specialise in transport before becoming media correspondent 18 months ago.

AIM magazine understands Dipesh Gadher will start at the deputy news editor’s desk a week before Christmas.