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26th Feb 2010

Tim Atkin joins The Times

I'm delighted to announce that I will be joining The Times from March 4 for the launch issue of a new weekly food and drink section. My new column will run to around 950 words and will include a main, 700 word story as well as half a dozen recommendations. I'm extremely excited to be joining such a great team, which includes fellow writers Alex Renton and Lindsey Bareham and chef Heston Blumenthal.

There is more need than ever for informed, entertaining and critical wine writing and I promise to provide that. From the end of March, I will cease to write for The Observer and Observer Food Monthly. I'd like to thank the subs, my former editor on OM, Allan Jenkins, and especially the readers for making the last 17 years such an enjoyable time on the paper.

I'd also like to thank the 1300 plus people who joined the Save the Wine Column campaign on Facebook after it was announced that The Observer was cutting my weekly column to a two wine shopping list, and especially Rebecca Gibb who created the site. I hope that those who expressed their support will follow my articles in The Times and on www.timatkin.com.