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Date: 06.09.2005
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The nominations for this year's Frank Gillard Awards have been announced today with ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Merseyside leading the hunt for honours.
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They have nominations in four categories with Radio Solent, Radio Berkshire and Three Counties Radio close behind with three apiece.
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Twenty-two out of the 41 eligible stations and services have achieved nominations in the programme categories for the 2005 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Local Radio awards.
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The prestigious Station of the Year Award won last year by this year's hosts, Radio Solent, will be contested by Radio Cumbria, Merseyside and Three Counties Radio.
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The Radio Leeds duo Graham Liver and Nicola Rees take on Andrew Peach from Berkshire and Merseyside's Tony Snell for the Programme Presenter award.
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In the Breakfast Programme category last year's bronze finalist ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ WM's Adrian Goldberg will hope to convert to gold in 2005 against Radio Newcastle's Mike Parr and Three Counties' Robert Perrone who is also nominated in Interactive, a category where he took gold in this year's Sony Awards.
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In 2003 and 2004 Radio Devon won gold in the Radio Promotion category and the station's back again this year bidding for a record three gold Gillards in succession but two other West Country stations, Bristol and Gloucestershire, are out to thwart Devon's ambition.
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The stations and the nominees will have to wait until Tuesday 27 September for the announcement of the winners at the Gillards Awards Dinner in the Historic Dockyard, Portsmouth.
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Five Live's Jane Garvey is the ceremony presenter and she will be joined by Michael Grade, the Chairman of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, to present the coveted miniature busts of Frank Gillard to the gold winners.
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In this 200th anniversary year of the battle of Trafalgar - and in the shadow of HMS Victory - there will be the inevitable Nelson touch to this year's awards dinner.
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The awards are named in honour of the founder of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Local Radio in England, Frank Gillard, who died in 1998.
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The Frank Gillard Awards 2005 - nominations
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The Breakfast Programme
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Newcastle - Mike Parr Breakfast Show
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Three Counties Radio - The Robert Perrone Breakfast Show
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ WM - The Adrian Goldberg Breakfast Show
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Programme Presenter
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Berkshire - Andrew Peach
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Leeds - Graham Liver and Nicola Rees
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Merseyside - Tony Snell
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Coverage of a News Story
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Nottingham - The Death of Brian Clough
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Solent - Silent Calls
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Southern Counties Radio - General Election
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Interactive Programme
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Northampton - The Weekender
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Oxford - Bill Heine Show
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Three Counties Radio - The Robert Perrone Breakfast Show
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Reporter
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Cleveland - Jonathan Swingler
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Cumbria - Gordon Swindlehurst
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Solent - Jo Palmer
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Sports Coverage
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Derby - Sportscene Special: Brian Clough
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Oxford - Didcot Town FA Vase Special
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio York - City Till I Die
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Social Action Campaign
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Berkshire - Oxford Road - The Story
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Bristol - Babe's Big Appeal
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ GMR - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ GMR's "4 Life" Campaign
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Radio Feature
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Lincolnshire - Carla's Story
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Southern Counties Radio - Diary of a Sex Change
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Stoke - Making Waves
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Outside Broadcast
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Cleveland - Tees Valley Day
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Merseyside - Halfway to Paradise
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Solent - Trafalgar 200: The Son et Lumiere
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Religious Programming
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Derby - Compilation Sunday Breakfast Show
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Nottingham - Sunday Breakfast and Lunchtime Programmes
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Shropshire - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Shropshire Religion
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Radio Promotion
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Bristol - Bringing ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ the Bacon
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Devon - A Christmas Murder Mystery
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Gloucestershire - Dick Whittington
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Diversity
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Berkshire
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Lincolnshire
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Merseyside
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Station of the Year
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Cumbria
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Merseyside
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Three Counties Radio
