Tatler got off to a cracking start of term on Monday with its annual schools awards ceremony, a lavish bash held at Claridge's.

That Susannah Herbert is leaving The Sunday Times, where she edits the News Review is not surprising; when Eleanor Mills, her predecessor, returned from an unhappy stint editing the Saturday Times, rumours of creative tension between them were rife.

After 300 years, Tatler still jealously guards its privileged position as the chronicler of the posh and the well-heeled, reports Ian Burrell

The staff of London Lite were sad to see Bo Wilson leave 10 days ago. A reporter on the free-sheet – though not on staff – she had also stepped up to a desk job when needed. Understandably, she jumped at the chance when offered a staff job elsewhere as a deputy news editor, and duly trotted off on holiday. Sadly, though, her break was interrupted by a text telling her that her new home, Rupert Murdoch's thelondonpaper, was to close. Commiserations.

Andy Coulson and Rebekah Wade claim ignorance of their reporters' illegal activities when they edited the News of the Screws, but what of their predecessors?

'The Guardian' made a big hoo-ha about the BBC's plans, now shelved, to launch local video newscasts online, branding them a blow to struggling regional newspaper websites. So it's intriguing to learn 'The Guardian' is, er, launching a regional site. Staff have been invited to volunteer to be "launch editor, Guardian local", "responsible for a city-based local offering from guardian.co.uk." The post is only being advertised internally, so BBC staffers who lost out on the axed Beeb project need not apply.

Whoever takes over at the high society bible, it will be steady as she goes, says Matthew Bell

Diary

Geordie Greig is tipped to be editor of the 'Evening Standard', but who will step up to the plate at 'Tatler'? The Beast's money is on Catherine Ostler, the talented editor of 'ES' magazine, the 'Standard' supplement. A friend of Condé Nast chief Nicholas Coleridge – but then, who isn't? – she was out socialising with him last week. A Vogue House source says they're meeting for lunch this week to thrash out terms. Poaching Ostler, known to some as "Tiny Tears", would be a coup for Coleridge and have a neat symmetry.

LIVE BY the flounce, die by the flounce. That was the verdict last night after the publisher of Tatler magazine revealed that his editor, Jane Procter, felt she had little option but to resign last week after nine years in charge.