The Citizen has been crowned Regional Newspaper of the Year at this year's Newspaper Sales and Promotions Awards.

The full list of editorial winners is below:

Best Local Newspaper Week initiative - all regional paid-fors
Winner: South Wales Echo
Highly commended: Coventry Evening Telegraph
Certificate of merit: Bournemouth Daily Echo

Campaigning newspaper of the year - all daily and Sunday paid-fors
Winner: Bristol Evening Post - One in Four Cancer Campaign
Highly commended: Evening Gazette, Teesside - series of campaigns; The Citizen, Gloucester - series of campaigns; Press & Journal, Aberdeen - Millie campaign & Archie campaign
Certificate of merit: Express & Echo, Exeter - Telephone Mad; Evening Leader, Wrexham - Asylum Seekers

Campaigning newspaper of the year - all weekly paid-fors
Winner: Worksop Guardian - Save our Hospitals A&E
Highly commended: South London Press - Save our Zoo; Highland News Group - Highland Heartbeat Appeal
Certificate of merit: Mansfield Chad - Who Killed Gladys Godfrey?

Community newspaper of the year - all daily and Sunday paid-fors
Winner: Bristol Evening Post - Invention - The Really Useful Invention
Highly commended: Derby Evening Telegraph - Cancer Appeal Magic Million; Coventry Evening Telegraph - Pride of Coventry community awards; Sheffield Star - Made in Sheffield
Certificate of merit: The Citizen, Gloucester - Minority groups

Community newspaper of the year - All weekly paid-fors
Winner: Cumberland News - Countryside awards
Highly commended: Southport Visiter - Young Chefs cookery competition
Certificate of merit: Galloway News - Walking Bus campaign

Journalist of the year - all regional paid-fors
Winner: Rick Lyon - Hull Daily Mail
Highly commended: Chris Maguire - Bristol Evening Post; Adam Postans - Western Daily Press
Certificate of merit: Murray Kelso - Shields Gazette; Lorna Rutter - Shrewsbury Chronicle

Young journalist of the year - all regional paid-fors
Winner: Jonathan McCambridge - The Belfast Telegraph
Highly commended: Aisling McVeigh - The Citizen, Gloucester; Mary Fitzgerald - The Belfast Telegraph; Greg O'Keefe - Southport Visiter; Caroline Wheeler - Sunday Mercury

Photographer of the year - all regional paid-fors
Winner: Rob Norman - Western Mail
Highly commended: Steve Riding - Yorkshire Evening Post
Certificate of merit: Dave Charnley - Evening Gazette (Teesside); Simon Hulme - Yorkshire Post; Andrew Davies - South Wales Echo; Robert Parry Jones - Daily Post (Llandudno); Tony Wood - The Argus, Brighton

Young photographer of the year - all regional paid-fors
Winner: Corin Messer - Daily Echo, Bournemouth
Highly commended: Keith Jones - Cambridge Evening News
Certificate of merit: Amy Neal - Sevenoaks Chronicle; Emma Nichols - Yorkshire Post; Clare Lewis - The Sentinel, Stoke

Design & layout of the year - all regional paid-fors
Winner: South Wales Echo
Highly commended: Western Daily Press; Cambridge Evening News; Lancashire Evening Post; Yorkshire Evening Post; Teesside Evening Gazette

Regional newspaper of the year - all regional paid-fors
Winner: The Citizen, Gloucester
Highly commended: Teesside Evening Gazette
Certificate of merit: The Cumberland News; South Wales Argus; Plymouth Evening Herald; Evening Star, Ipswich; The Argus, Brighton; Western Daily Press; Cambridge Evening News; South Wales Echo

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