Voting is now under way to find the best regional press campaign of the past 12 months.
The prize is being awarded as part of Local Newspaper Week, which began today, with 32 different campaigns in contention.
Voters have until 5pm on Wednesday to pick their favourite campaign from the list below, and the winner will be revealed at Friday’s Regional Press Awards.
The Oxford Mail leads the number of nominations with three for its ‘Lonely This Christmas’, ‘Public Defibrillators’ and ‘FOI: Your Right To Know’ campaigns.
The Yorkshire Post’s campaign, Loneliness: The Hidden Epidemic, which won the 2014 prize, has also been shortlisted.
To vote, follow the links from the Local Newspaper Week website to your campaign of choice.
The full list of nominees is as follows:
Aberdeen Evening Express – Save the Bon Accord Baths
Archant Investigations United – Contaminated Blood Scandal
Birmingham Mail – Child Sex Exploitation in Birmingham
Birmingham Post – BBC Midlands investment
Bradford Telegraph & Argus – Stop the Danger Drivers
Camden New Journal – Pay Up Now
CN Group – Fight the Cuts
Cumberland News – Spirit of Cumbria
Derby Telegraph – Colin Bloomfield Melanoma Appeal
Dundee Courier – Frank’s Law
Dundee Evening Telegraph – Bald is Beautiful
Eastern Daily Press – Mental Health Watch
Express & Star, Wolverhampton – Ladder for the Black Country
Glamorgan Gazette – Yule Love Brigend
Hereford Times – One in Eight
Hull Daily Mail – Kids in Crisis
North Wales Daily Post – #savebetsibabies
North West Evening Mail – Healthy Young Minds
Oxford Mail – Lonely this Christmas
Oxford Mail – Public Defibrillators Campaign
Oxford Mail – FoI: Your Right To Know
Press & Journal, Aberdeen – Energy 2050
Press & Journal, Aberdeen – Apprentice 100
Salisbury Journal – Salisbury Airfield
South Wales Echo – Cardiff United Against Cancer
Southern Daily Echo – Dumped Dogs: Find the Culprit
Stourbridge News – Well of Life Appeal
Sunday Post – Who Cares?
The Argus, Brighton – Save our Centres
The Sentinel, Stoke – Our Big Read
Westmorland Gazette – Give Robbie Room
Yorkshire Post – Loneliness: The Hidden Epidemic
Not many JP papers on the list.
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Does The Yorkshire Post have nothing worthy of entry for this year? How nice that it can get shortlisted anyway. How does that work? Mind you, The Yorkshire Evening Post couldn’t even manage that. Both papers are now at an all time low in terms of quality and content.
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