Gold award for Radio Shropshire

BBC Radio Shropshire has scooped two awards in the radio industry's honours for excellence in broadcasting.

The Shrewsbury-based station took a gold and silver at the prestigious Sony Radio Academy Awards on Thursday.

The No Buts quit smoking campaign came top in the community award and the programme Simple is, Simple As took second place in the feature category.

The judge said the No Buts campaign "exposed the agony of the soul and the raw wounds" of those involved.

It featured on presenter Chris Ashley's mid-morning show.

Producer Michael Cleere's Simple is, Simple As programme is already an award-winner, claiming the Voices category of the Frank Gillard BBC Local Radio Awards last year.

The series Voices, which ran on all English BBC local radio stations from March to July, was set up to bring together the corporation and local communities, and to share previously unheard stories.

Mr Cleere's programme worked with people living in Woodside in Telford.

The Sony judges praised it as: "Utterly gripping: a powerful narrative with much humour, culminating in a heartbreaking climax."