Radio Manchester triumphs at Gillard Awards
The winners of The Frank Gillard Awards 2006 were announced last night (28 September) at the Low Wood Hotel, Windermere, Cumbria.
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At the ceremony, hosted by Richard Bilton, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Manchester collected the coveted Station of the Year award - an outstanding achievement for the station which has been going through a re-launch under new Editor John Ryan.
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The team also picked up the Outside Broadcast Award - for a broadcast marking the 10th anniversary of the Manchester bombing.
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It was a good year for the bigger metropolitan stations as ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ London 94.9's Jono Coleman and Joanne Good won the Breakfast Programme Award and Nicola Rees of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Leeds hit Gold in the Reporter category.
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hereford & Worcester added a Gillard to the Sony they won earlier in the year when they claimed the Social Action Campaign category for their mental illness project.
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Another campaign winner was Liz Kershaw of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Coventry and Warwickshire. Her Liz'll Fix It project was the tops in Radio Promotion.
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Smaller stations took a good share of the awards. The Programme Presenter award was won by Bernie Keith of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Northampton and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Shropshire scooped Gold in News Coverage for its reports on a local family's campaign to make the drug Herceptin available on the NHS; whilst ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Suffolk secured the Sports award for its investigation into exploitation in the horse racing industry within the county.
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There were two awards for Outstanding Contributions to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Local Radio.
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They went to Margaret Hyde, the Managing Editor of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Essex, whose distinguished career in Local Radio began back in June 1973 as a journalist at ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Merseyside; and to Paul Rowley of the Regional Political Unit whose reporting and two-ways on Westminster politics for the past 12 years have become by-words for accessibility and made him a well-known and admired voice throughout the Local Radio chain of stations.
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The awards were presented by ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Deputy Director-General Mark Byford.
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Thirty-nine ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Local Radio stations and services put forward 256 entries for the awards, which are named in honour of Frank Gillard, the founder of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Local Radio.
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At the Gillard Awards evening, a Radio Academy Fellowship was conferred on the former Managing Editor of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Bristol, Jenny Lacey, by the Director of the Radio Academy, John Bradford.
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The Frank Gillard Awards 2006
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Full list of winners in Gold, Silver and Bronze order:
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The Breakfast Programme
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ London 94.9 - Jono And Jo Breakfast Show
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Gloucestershire - Mark Cummings at Breakfast
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Lincolnshire - The Breakfast Show with Rod Whiting
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Programme Presenter
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Northampton - Bernie Keith
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Sheffield - Toby Foster
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Suffolk - Nick Pandolfi
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Coverage of a News Story
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Shropshire - the Herceptin story
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ London 94.9 - Rolling news coverage 7 July 2005
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Nottingham - the Danielle Beccan murder trial
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Interactive Programme
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Oxford - Planet Speedway
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Norfolk - David Clayton's Norfolk Years
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Three Counties Radio - Treasure Quest
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Reporter
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Leeds - Nicola Rees
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Southern Counties Radio - Allison Ferns
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Sports Coverage
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Suffolk - Riding Roughshod
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Sheffield - Football Heaven - Derby Day Special
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Merseyside - FA Cup Final: Liverpool v West Ham
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Social Action Campaign
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hereford & Worcester - Hearing Voices
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Cornwall - Sea Sense
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Lancashire - Rice Appeal
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Radio Feature
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Solent - Finding Dad
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hereford & Worcester - George
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Northampton - The Nag's Head, Wollaston
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Outside Broadcast
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Manchester - The Bomb 10 Years On
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Berkshire - The Queen's 80th Birthday
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ London 94.9 - the 2006 London Marathon
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Religious Programming
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Devon - The Weekend Breakfast Show
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Lancashire - Joe Wilson - Lancashire Sunday
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Nottingham - Breakfast Compilation
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Radio Promotion
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Coventry & Warwickshire - Liz'll Fix It
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Bristol - Brunel 200
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Berkshire - The Reading FC Promotion Campaign
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Diversity
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Merseyside - Ticket To Ride - Journeys on a ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Bus
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ London 94.9 - Compilation
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Leicester - Telling Lives
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Outstanding Contribution To ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Local Radio
Paul Rowley - ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Regional Political Unit
Margaret Hyde - Managing Editor ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Essex
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Station Of The Year
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Manchester
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ London 94.9
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Berkshire
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