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Scottish press honoured

The Edinburgh Evening News has been named Newspaper of the Year at this year’s Royal Bank of Scotland Awards in Glasgow.

The newspaper also won the Best News Coverage category.

Ian Stewart, acting editor of the Evening News, said: “This is a fantastic achievement which all on the paper can take pride in.

“It is recognition of the consistent high quality of the News that we can beat all the national newspapers to this title.”

Richard Draycott, editor of media and marketing magazine, The Drum, which runs the competition, said: “The areas in which the judges were most impressed with the Evening News were its news and business, which as the newspaper for Scotland’s geographical and financial capital are both very important areas for its readership.”

The local newspaper award went to the Dunfermline Press, while The Herald, Glasgow, won three awards – for best design and layout, best opinion pages and best arts and entertainment.

Its sister paper, The Sunday Herald, won the best features category and its magazine won best supplement.

Judges at the awards said that overall they felt most of Scotland’s newspapers had moved on in the past year.

But they expressed concern about a lack of foreign coverage in Scottish newspapers, citing the establishment of Scottish parliament and a challenging economic climate as possible reasons for this.

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