A former Southern Daily Echo reporter has won a top honour in her new role as a television journalist.
Christine Alsford was named best regional TV journalist at the Royal Television Society Southern Centre Awards 2001.
Before leaving the Echo in the late 90s, Christine worked at the paper’s former headquarters in Above Bar, Southampton, and helped to produce its women’s page for several years.

Readers of the Oldham Chronicle are being asked to save £1m in its Sin the Bin campaign.
It wants to encourage gardeners to separate their green waste and compost it rather than throw it into the bin to clog up under-pressure landfill sites.
The Evening Chronicle explained how gardeners in Greater Manchester dumped around 40,000 tons of garden waste in their household dustbins every autumn, which costs more than £1m in additional landfill.
The paper is joining forces with the local council to get the autumn campaign off the ground and is offering home composters at a cut-price rate.

At least five dogs have been saved from their death sentence after a newspaper highlighted their plight at a council compound for strays.
The Northern Echo carried a story about an abandoned dog facing death at kennels near Durham and more than 41 people have been in touch with the centre after reading how the collie cross was due to be put down.
The paper has appealed for would-be owners to come forward for the other animals without homes.

The Evening Star is boasting of readers with hearts of gold, after the paper reported how a Ipswich schoolgirl had her £150 mobile phone stolen, which was her link with her disabled mum.
A selfless Samaritan got in touch with the paper to say he’d won a competition at work and rather than spend the cash on himself would rather donate it to the robbery victim to make her happy.

Evening News readers are calling for speed cameras in the county to be painted bright yellow rather than dark blue.
A website poll for the Norwich paper found 54 per cent favouring yellow with 38 per cent backing the existing blue colour.
Despite people complaining they couldn’t see the cameras very well, police are pleased with the awareness the campaign is creating.

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