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Seven up for Record as Scottish Press Awards handed out

Daily Record PanamaThe Daily Record emerged as the big winner at last night’s 38th Scottish Press Awards with seven top prizes.

The Glasgow-based title swept the board in the ceremony at the city’s Radisson Blue Hotel winning the Newspaper of the Year title along with Front Page of the Year and Digital Team of the year.

Daily Record journalists also took home four individual awards including Journalist of the Year for sports writer Keith Jackson and Reporter of the Year for Vivienne Aitken.

The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the Campaign of the Year prize for its Bin Watch initiative while News reporter Courtney Cameron was named Young Journalist of the Year.

There was a posthumous award for Gordon Aikman of the Sunday Times Scotland, who was awarded Columnist of the Year.

Gordon, who died in February, used his column to document his battle against motor neurone disease and campaign for more funding to find a cure for the degenerative condition.

The Weekly Newspaper of the Year title went to the Ayrshire Post wheile The Herald’s Susan Swarbrick was named Interviewer of the Year.

The full list of winners was as follows:

Young Journalist of the Year: Courtney Cameron, Edinburgh Evening News

Weekly Newspaper of the Year: Ayrshire Post

Cartoonist of the Year: Steven Camley, The Herald

Interviewer of the Year: Susan Swarbrick, The Herald

Political Journalist of the Year: Torcuil Crichton, Daily Record

Columnist of the Year: Gordon Aikman, Sunday Times

Sports Columnist of the Year: Bill Leckie, Scottish Sun

Financial/Business Journalist of the Year: Michael Glackin, Sunday Times

Feature Writer of the Year: David Pratt, The Herald/Sunday Herald

Sports Feature Writer of the Year: Michael Grant, The Times

Sports News Writer of the Year: Keith Jackson, Daily Record

News Photographer of the Year: Alasdair Macleod, Daily Record

Sports Photographer of the Year: Ian MacNicol, Getty Images

Outstanding Digital Journalist of the Year: Jamie Ross, Buzzfeed News

Front Page of the Year: Daily Record: I’m The Victim

Digital Team of the Year: Daily Record

Journalism Team of the Year: Scottish Sun

Campaign of the Year: Edinburgh Evening News, Bin Watch

Scoop of the Year: Alan Roden and Neil Sears, Scottish Daily Mail

Reporter of the Year: Vivienne Aitken, Daily Record

Lifetime Achievement Award: Jim Lawson

Journalist of the Year: Keith Jackson, Daily Record

Newspaper of the Year: Daily Record