Weekly News Journalist of the Year:
Winner: Ian Shepherd, Cornish Guardian
Highly Commended: Tristan Cork, Malmesbury Standard and Ceri Doyle, Weston & Somerset Mercury

Ian Shepherd (pictured above) of the Cornish Guardian took the 1999 BT West of England Weekly News Journalist of the Year title. This meant Tristan Cork of the Malmesbury Standard, who had won the title three times in four years, had to settle for a runners-up prize only this time. The other runner-up was Ceri Doyle of the Weston & Somerset Mercury.

The judges were impressed by Ian's interview with 70-year-old Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs in which he admitted for the first time one of his early crimes. At the age of eleven, and living as a wartime evacuee in Cornwall, he poleaxed another youngster with a piece of slate.

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