The Tamworth Herald and Kent on Sunday (KOS) have been named as the best weekly local newspapers at the Newspaper Society's 2007 weekly newspaper awards. While the Herald picked up the title as paid-for weekly, KOS scooped the free award.
The runners-up in the paid-for category were the Newbury Weekly News, which won silver, and the Belfast title, the Andersonstown News, got bronze. In the free section, East Kilbride Mail got second prize and Bedfordshire on Sunday was placed third.
The Newbury Weekly News had a terrific night by picking up four gold awards in the paid-for categories, while Cumbrian Newspapers took home three.
There was also praise from one of the judges, Ed Dorrell, for online entries. "I was really impressed by the overall quality of regional newspaper websites," he said. "They have clearly taken massive strides forward in the last 12 months as the local and regional newspaper industry really gets to grip with digital." (Via Newspaper Society)
