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June 2, 2005updated 22 Nov 2022 3:35pm

Shortlist revealed for 2005 Regional Press Awards

By Press Gazette

The judges have deliberated to reduce nearly 800 entries down to these shortlists
BUSINESS & FINANCIAL JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Chris Starkie Eastern Daily Press David Elks The
Sentinel/ Sentinel on Sunday Greg Wright Yorkshire Post Jenny Chapman
Cambridge Evening News John Fox-Clinch Western Daily Press Naomi Canton
Norwich Evening News
FEATURE WRITER OF THE YEAR
Angela Wintle The Argus, Brighton Caroline
Foulkes The Birmingham Post Jenny White South Wales Evening Post Mary
Fitzgerald Belfast Telegraph Reg Little The Oxford Times Rod McPhee
Yorkshire Evening Post
REPORTER OF THE YEAR
Chrissy Harris Leicester Mercury, Emily Andrews
Sunday Mercury, Jon Austin Basildon Echo, Mike Hornby Liverpool Echo,
Rick Lyon Hull Daily, Mail Rob Waugh Yorkshire Post
SPECIALIST REPORTER OF THE YEAR
Charles Walker Nottingham Evening Post, Giles
Sheldrick Oxford Mail, Kathie McInnes The Sentinel, Kevin Peachey
Nottingham Evening Post, Sharon Edwards Lincolnshire Echo, Vicki Shaw
Yorkshire Evening Post.
COLUMNIST OF THE YEAR
Erik Petersen Nottingham Evening Post, Jayne Dawson Yorkshire
Evening Post, Nicola Barry The Press & Journal Aberdeen, Paul
Taylor Manchester Evening News, Tim Power Evening Courier, Halifax Will
Batchelor Liverpool Echo
SPORTS JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Hyder Jawad Birmingham Post, James Corrigan Wales
on Sunday, James Toney Sportsbeat, Jeremy Wilson Southern Daily Echo,
Martin Smith The Star Sheffield, Paul Dews Yorkshire Evening Post
YOUNG JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR
Daniel Cochlin The Journal Newcastle, Emma Slee
Express & Echo, Erin Dean Western Daily Press, Mark Bulstrode
Ipswich Evening Star, Nick Owens Lancashire Evening Post, Richard Heath
Sheffield Star
BUSINESS & FINANCIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
Birmingham Post, Eastern Daily Press, Liverpool Daily Post, The Journal, Newcastle, Western Daily Press, Yorkshire Post
CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR
Back on track Manchester Evening News, Bile bears
Western Daily Press ,Fair ‘n square Nottingham Evening Post, Guiseppe
Conlan Irish News, Street safe Wakefield Express, The magic million
Derby Evening Telegraph
SCOOP OF THE YEAR
Caroline Smith Sunday Sun 12-yr-old accused of
raping teacher Jeanette Oldham, Sunday Mercury Gay dads adopt three
kids Mark Heath East Anglia Daily Times, Baby Luke – MRSA death Miriam
Wells The Argus, Brighton, Dave Huddie’s letter Sinead McCavana Sunday
Life, Top cop sex swap Tristan Cork Western Daily Press, Rotten –
tsunami aid left to rot
TEAM OF THE YEAR
Gloucester Echo Robinson trials, News & Star
Carlisle floods, Nottingham Evening Post Beccan shooting, South Wales
Evening Post Farewell to the Vetch, Western Mail Six Nations, Western
Morning News Boscastle floods
WEBSITE OF THE YEAR
Icliverpool.co.uk, Edp24.co.uk ,Thisiswiltshire.co.uk, Thisislocallondon.co.uk, Thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk, Newsandstar.co.uk
SUPPLEMENT OF THE YEAR
Twenty Four Seven Belfast Telegraph, Country Week
Yorkshire Post, Football Echo Liverpool Echo, Learning The Cumberland
News, The Guide Croydon Advertiser, West Country Life Western Daily
Press
PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Brendan Murphy Irish News, David Charnley Evening
Gazette, Middlesbrough, Gerallt Radcliffe Wales Daily Post, Matt Austin
Express & Echo, Exeter, Richard Austin Western Morning News, Shaun
Curry Newsquest
SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR
Andy Garbutt Telegraph & Argus ,Clare Green
Bath Chronicle, Jason Dawson Slough Observer, Mike Sewell Leicester
Mercury, Richard Austin Western Morning News, Stuart Harrison Swindon
Evening Advertiser
FRONT PAGE OF THE YEAR
Closure Irish News, Floods Western Morning News,
R.I.P. The Journal, Tetbury man to wed Bristol Evening Post, The end
Hull Daily Mail, The great escape News & Star, Carlisle
DAILY/SUNDAY NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
Liverpool Daily Post, Sunday Mercury, Wales on Sunday, Western Daily Press, Western Morning News, Yorkshire Post
EVENING NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
Evening Express, Aberdeen, Evening Gazette,
Middlesbrough, Evening Times, Glasgow, Gloucestershire Echo,
Lincolnshire Echo, The Citizen, Gloucester
WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
Bucks Herald, Cornish Guardian, Flintshire Chronicle, Grantham Journal, Kentish Gazette, The Cumberland News
FREE NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR
Barnet & Potters Bar Times, Camden New Journal, Kent on Sunday, Sutton Coldfield Observer, The Comet Thurrock, Gazette

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