Mail team in line for top awards

THE SCOTTISH Daily Mail has been shortlisted for a string of honours at the prestigious annual Scottish Press Awards.

The paper is once again shortlisted in the top categories for news, features and sport coverage.

Along with our sister paper The Mail on Sunday, we have candidates nominated for ten awards.

Mail features writer Jonathan Brocklebank has been nominated in the Feature Writer of the Year category, while Chris Deerin is shortlisted for Columnist of the Year.

Home Affairs Editor Graham Grant has also been shortlisted in the prestigious Scoop of the Year category for his exclusive story that Labour peer Lord Greville Janner was at the centre of a Scottish police investigation over claims he abused a teenage boy.

Mail sportswriters Stephen McGowan and Mark Wilson have both been nominated in the Sports News Writer of the Year category. The Mail on Sunday’s Patricia Kane has been nominated in the Interviewer of the Year section – the award she won in 014 and 015 – while her colleague Fiona McWhirter has been shortlisted in the same category.

The Mail on Sunday’s political editor Michael Blackley has been shortlisted in the Political Journalist of the Year category while Lorraine Kelly and Charlotte Wace have both been nominated in the Young Journalist of the Year category.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony on April 1 at the Radisson BLU Hotel in Glasgow.