Staff at the weekly Cumberland News were celebrating after their paper was named regional newspaper of the year at the Press Gazette awards for its “outstanding” coverage of foot-and-mouth disease.
The other winners, listed below, were whittled from an entry of more than 700 for the ceremony at the Hilton Hotel, London.
The winners were:
The Sentinel Sunday
Yorkshire Evening Post
Camden New Journal
Bill Gleeson, Daily Post, Liverpool
Peter Sharples, Manchester Evening News
Dave Blackhurst, The Sentinel
Peter Bossley, The Sentinel Sunday
Martin Breen, The Belfast Telegraph
Mark Bickerdike, Yorkshire Evening Post
Ann McManus, Irish News
John Gibson, Evening Chronicle, Newcastle
Madeleine Brindley, Nottingham Evening Post
Lisa Baxter, Evening Star, Ipswich
Steve Lowe, Bedfordshire on Sunday
Grimsby Telegraph
The Sentinel Sunday
Don Hale, Matlock Mercury
Melanie Henderson, businessam.co.uk
EDP24.co.uk
Ian Dowell, editor, Birmingham Evening Mail 1987 – 2001.
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