Staff at the weekly Cumberland News were celebrating after their paper was named regional newspaper of the year at the Press Gazette awards for its “outstanding” coverage of foot-and-mouth disease.

The other winners, listed below, were whittled from an entry of more than 700 for the ceremony at the Hilton Hotel, London.

The winners were:

Daily/Sunday newspaper:
The Sentinel Sunday

Evening newspaper:
Yorkshire Evening Post

Free newspaper:
Camden New Journal

Business journalist:
Bill Gleeson, Daily Post, Liverpool

Financial journalist:
Peter Sharples, Manchester Evening News

Reporter:
Dave Blackhurst, The Sentinel

Columnist:
Peter Bossley, The Sentinel Sunday

Young journalist:
Martin Breen, The Belfast Telegraph

Photographer:
Mark Bickerdike, Yorkshire Evening Post

Sports photographer:
Ann McManus, Irish News

Sports journalist:
John Gibson, Evening Chronicle, Newcastle

Feature writer:
Madeleine Brindley, Nottingham Evening Post

Specialist:
Lisa Baxter, Evening Star, Ipswich

Scoop:
Steve Lowe, Bedfordshire on Sunday

Front page:
Grimsby Telegraph

Production team:
The Sentinel Sunday

Campaign:
Don Hale, Matlock Mercury

Online journalist:
Melanie Henderson, businessam.co.uk

Website:
EDP24.co.uk

Press Gazette Gold Award:
Ian Dowell, editor, Birmingham Evening Mail 1987 – 2001.

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