Herald photographer honoured at awards

The Stratford Herald's photographer, Mark Williamson, has been highly commended at this year's Regional Press Awards.

Winners of the Regional Press Awards for 2015 were announced at formal awards ceremony held over lunch on Friday, 20th May at the Marriott Grosvenor Square, London. The Awards celebrate the best of British regional and local newspaper journalism in 2015.

Mark said: "It was honour to be nominated and being awarded second — highly commended — is fantastic at what is the Oscars of the regional newspaper business. I'm pleased that good photo journalism has been recognised at Stratford Herald."

The overall winner in the Weekly Newspaper Photographer of the Year was Michael Gillen of the Falkirk Herald.

See more on this story in Thursday's Herald.