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Great 40th birthday present for Radio Leicester at the Frank Gillard Awards 2007
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أغر؟´«أ½ Director-General Mark Thompson honoured the winners of the Frank Gillard Awards 2007 at an awards ceremony in the impressive surroundings of Birmingham Town Hall.
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The Gillard Awards were the centrepiece of a celebration of 40 years of أغر؟´«أ½ Local Radio attended, on Saturday 24 November, by listeners, staff and freelances, past and present, from all the أغر؟´«أ½'s 40 stations.
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The awards were presented by well-known alumni of أغر؟´«أ½ Local Radio, including Jane Garvey, Simon Mayo, Jon Sopel, Kate Adie, Sophie Raworth, Michael Buerk, Mary Rhodes, Sonia Deol, Garry Richardson and by the Chairman of the أغر؟´«أ½ Trust, Sir Michael Lyons.
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أغر؟´«أ½ Radio Leicester celebrated its 40 years on air (the anniversary was 8 November) by winning two Gillards. Ben Jackson took Gold for the Breakfast Programme category and Herdle White, whose black music programmes and reporting have been a constant on the station for 39 years, won one of the six Outstanding Contribution to أغر؟´«أ½ Local Radio awards.
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The coveted Station of the Year award for 2007 went to أغر؟´«أ½ Radio Leeds while Ronnie Barbour of أغر؟´«أ½ Three Counties Radio won Gold in the most strongly contested category – Programme Presenter – coming first out of 28 entries.
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It was a good year for the bigger metropolitan stations as أغر؟´«أ½ London 94.9's coverage of the London marathon gained the Outside Broadcast Gillard, أغر؟´«أ½ Radio Manchester came tops in the Station Sound category, and أغر؟´«أ½ Radio Merseyside's prison phone-in took the Interactivity Award for Roger Phillips.
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Amongst the smaller stations, أغر؟´«أ½ Hereford and Worcester has been making a habit of winning Gillards and this year was no exception with the station winning the Original Journalism category for its coverage of the plight of migrant workers.
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The 40 years of أغر؟´«أ½ Local Radio were marked by six Outstanding Contribution Awards presented by Mark Thompson, the Director-General of the أغر؟´«أ½, to:
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- Radio Leicester's Herdle White.
- Alison Hartley, a founder member of the أغر؟´«أ½ Essex team whose battle with a brain tumour has not stopped her contributing to the station.
- John Walch, a much appreciated أغر؟´«أ½ Radio Sheffield engineer who has been with the station since 1973 and is now the second longest-serving member of أغر؟´«أ½ staff.
- Ray French, the doyen of Rugby League commentators for Radio Merseyside and أغر؟´«أ½ Sport.
- John Jefferson, the former manager of أغر؟´«أ½ Radio York and Leeds whose career began on أغر؟´«أ½ Radio Durham as a reporter and continues to this day with أغر؟´«أ½ Local Radio as a consultant and trainer.
- Owen Bentley, organiser of the Gillard Awards, who started his career as a producer at أغر؟´«أ½ Radio Stoke-on-Trent in 1967 – after a few weeks at Radio Sheffield while Stoke's opening was delayed by foot-and-mouth – and who has since been manager at Radio Leicester, and Head of Local and Network Radio in the Midlands.
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