Judges have completed the shortlist for the Press Gazette's Regional Press Awards 2001.

ITN political editor John Sergeant will present the winners, whittled from an entry of more than 700, with their awards at the Hilton Hotel on Friday July 6.

The shortlist is:

Weekly Newspaper of the Year: South London Press; The Cumberland News; Shrewsbury Chronicle; Cornish Guardian, Wiltshire Times, Somerset County Gazette.

Free Newspaper of the Year: London Metro; London Jewish News; Camden New Journal; The Wharf; Milton Keynes Citizen; Bedfordshire on Sunday.

Daily/Sunday Newspaper of the Year: The Western Mail; Irish News; Western Morning News; Sunday Life; Business a.m.; Sentinel Sunday.

Evening Newspaper of the Year: Bristol Evening Post; Yorkshire Evening Post; South Wales Argus; Jersey Evening Post; Sheffield Star; Manchester Evening News.

Newspaper Society Front Page of the Year: Derby Evening Telegraph, Post It; Bedfordshire on Sunday, Death Room; Grimsby Evening Telegraph, Twister; Walton, Weybridge & Hersham Herald, Sarah Payne's Parents; Western Morning News, Foot and Mouth; South Wales Argus, Axed.

Photographer of the Year: Adrian White, South Wales Argus; Simon Hulme, Yorkshire Post; Stuart Boulton, The Northern Echo; Dave Betts, Bristol Evening Post; Mark Bickerdike, Yorkshire Evening Post; Richard Doughty, The Northern Echo.

Sports Photographer of the Year: Tim Harley-Easthope, Birmingham Evening Mail; Ann McManus, Irish News; Sarah Nicholson, The Northern Echo; Steve Ellis, Sheffield Star; Charles Breton, Bristol Evening Post; Sam Bagnall, Sunday Mercury.

Production Team of the Year: Sentinel Sunday, Stoke on Trent; Evening Press, York, Floods Supp-lement; Business a.m.; Leicester Mercury, Leicestershire at War; Shropshire Star; Bournemouth Daily Echo, Weekend Magazine.

Campaign of the Year: Liverpool Echo, "Stop the Rot"; Matlock Mercury, "Free Stephen Downing"; Reading Evening Post, "Save a Failing School"; Yorkshire Post, "A Sporting Chance"; Belfast Telegraph, "Forgotten RUC Widows"; Grimsby Evening Telegraph, "Pay the Fishermen".

Online Reporter of the Year: Melanie Henderson, Business a.m.; Zeddy Lawrence, Totallyjewish.com; David Wardale, iccoventry.co.uk; David Behrens, Telegraph & Argus, Bradford.

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