Albert Scardino has stepped down from the post of executive editor of the Guardian newspaper, just a week after the controversial dismissal of trainee journalist Dilpazier Aslam over his undeclared Islamist interests. Rumours had circulated last night that Mr Scardino was about to leave, but sources at the newspaper today were at pains to point out that the departure was entirely unconnected with the Aslam affair. Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, said: "Albert Scardino, executive editor for the home and foreign departments, has decided to leave the Guardian in October, at the end of his second annual contract,...