Thank you to everyone who joined us this evening to commemorate the 44th Annual Scottish Press Awards, and a huge well done to all our winners and runners up. Slainte!

The final award of the night is the Chairperson’s Award, sponsored by the Scot News Society. Our final winner is... The Scottish Sun.

The Daily Newspaper of the Year Award goes to the Scottish Daily Mail. This award has been sponsored by Scot News Society.

Sponsored by Scot News Society, the award for Sunday Newspaper of the Year goes to the The Sunday Post.

Sponsored by Openreach, the next award is for Reporter of the Year. Our winner is marion scott of The Sunday Post and runner up goes to Jen Stout, also of The Sunday Post.

Next up is the award for Campaign of the Year. The Scottish Daily Mail are runners up for their ‘Dementia’ campaign and the winner is… The Herald for ‘Scotland's Covid Memorial Campaign’.

Journalism Team of the Year goes to the Scottish Daily Mail for ‘Death of the Queen’. Congratulations to the whole team, and to the runners up The Scottish Sun for ‘Council Elections’.

The next highly anticipated award is for Front Page of the Year. Runner up is the Scottish Daily Mail, with The Scotsman scooping first place.

The winner of Scoop of the Year is marion scott of The Sunday Post for ‘A Shameful Silence’. Congratulations to Marion and to runner up Kate Foster of the Scottish Daily Mail for ‘Scotland’s NHS-run Gender Clinic’.

The next award at the Scottish Press Awards is for Weekly Newspaper of the Year. The runner up is Dunfermline Press and the winner is The Orcadian.

We’re back with the Lifetime Achievement Award. We’re pleased to announce the winner is Richard Walker. Congratulations Richard!

For their coverage of ‘Raise Funds for Alara’ the Local Campaign of the Year award goes to Largs & Millport Weekly News. Well done to the winner and the runners up Greenock Telegraph for their coverage of ‘Line of Duty’ and The Orcadian for ‘Ukraine’.

Next up is the award for Local Reporter of the Year. The runner up is Mark Harcus from The Orcadian and the winner is… Sarah Gilmour, also from The Orcadian.

The award for Local Feature Writer of the Year goes to Mark Harcus from The Orcadian. Congratulations Mark, and to our runner up Iain Smith of The Alloa and Hillfoots Advertiser.

The next award is for Regional Reporter of the Year. With Dale Haslam of The Press and Journal as runner up, our winner is Stuart Findlay, also of The Press and Journal.

The award for Regional Feature Writer of the Year goes to 𝙹𝚎𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚏𝚎𝚛 𝙼𝚌𝙻𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗 of The Courier with Ellie House from The Press and Journal being named as runner up.

Our next award goes to the Podcast of the Year. Congratulations to runner up Laughter Unlocked Podcast and our winner, Glasgow Crime Stories from Glasgow Times.

The News Website of the Year goes to…The Press and Journal! Runner up is The Scottish Sun.

The next award is for Best Coverage of a Live Event. The runner up goes to Shona Gossip and The Press and Journal for coverage of the Skye Shootings. For their coverage of the Kirkton Riots, the winner is Bryan Copland and The Courier.

Sponsored by VisitScotland, News Photographer of the Year goes to Jane Barlow of Press Association. Our runner up is Jeff Mitchell of Getty Images.