Editor Rachael Campey has been honoured with a Woman of Achievement award.

She was one of eight recipients of the first awards of their kind in Plymouth, where she edits the Evening Herald.

The awards were set up to identify, celebrate and recognise the important contribution that women from all walks of life make to the community.

Ms Campey (44), who joined the paper as editor just over three years ago, won her award for “transforming the Herald from being merely an interested observer to a more involving and community campaigning style of newspaper”.

She said at the awards ceremony that the honour “reflects the utmost credit on the entire editorial team”.

The paper devoted two inside pages to the ceremony and the award-winners and, in a bylined editorial, Miss Campey wrote: “Many women find it difficult to push themselves forward. For them, the barrier may be a lack of confidence, self-belief as well as opportunity.

“The Women of Achievement awards are there to give them a huge motivational boost. It says that if these award-winners can do it – so can you.”

Miss Campey began her journalistic career as a trainee reporter on the Solihull News. She has also worked for the Coventry Evening Telegraph, the Northern Echo, where she became deputy editor, and the Express and Echo, Exeter, where she was editor for five years before moving to Plymouth.

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