A dozen daily and weekly newspaper front pages have been selected among the nation’s best of 2020 ahead of the Regional Press Awards.

The shortlists for the Front Page of the Year prizes for daily and weekly/Sunday newspapers have been revealed ahead of a virtual ceremony on 16 September.

Both awards are sponsored by HoldtheFrontPage, which has been involved with the awards since they were revived by the Society of Editors in 2011.

Below is a gallery of the shortlisted contenders in each of the two categories.

Front Page of the Year – Daily Paper

Bonkers – Sex club reopens… with social distancing rules in place, Dundee Evening Telegraph

CHAMPIONS, Liverpool Echo

Farewell, not goodbye, The Scotsman

Middlesbrough needs… Intensive Care, The Gazette

Our Life in Lockdown, Hull Daily Mail

You’re all heroes, Glasgow Times

 

Front Page of the Year – Weekly/Sunday Paper

‘Be safe, be careful and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do’, Wokingham.Today

Death of a Peacemaker, Derry News

United front, Kent Messenger

We didn’t get to say goodbye, Impartial Reporter

We WILL get through this, Hereford Times

‘We’re shattered beyond belief’, Bucks Free Press