is to stand down as editor of the BBC’s Today programme after three years.
Her resignation from the flagship Radio 4 current affairs show comes a day after the corporation announced 450 jobs would be cut across its newsrooms as part of an £80m cost-saving drive.
Ms Sands said: “I have decided to move on from being editor of the Today programme and propose to leave the BBC in September.
“It has been a privilege to be part of this remarkable team and I am proud to have championed our intelligent journalism and political independence. God bless the BBC.”
She gave no reason for her decision, which comes just four months after John Humphrys left the programme following 32 years as a presenter.