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Date: 06.09.2005
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The nominations for this year's Frank Gillard Awards have been announced today with Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Merseyside leading the hunt for honours.
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They have nominations in four categories with Radio Solent, Radio Berkshire and Three Counties Radio close behind with three apiece.
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Twenty-two out of the 41 eligible stations and services have achieved nominations in the programme categories for the 2005 Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Local Radio awards.
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The prestigious Station of the Year Award won last year by this year's hosts, Radio Solent, will be contested by Radio Cumbria, Merseyside and Three Counties Radio.
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The Radio Leeds duo Graham Liver and Nicola Rees take on Andrew Peach from Berkshire and Merseyside's Tony Snell for the Programme Presenter award.
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In the Breakfast Programme category last year's bronze finalist Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ WM's Adrian Goldberg will hope to convert to gold in 2005 against Radio Newcastle's Mike Parr and Three Counties' Robert Perrone who is also nominated in Interactive, a category where he took gold in this year's Sony Awards.
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In 2003 and 2004 Radio Devon won gold in the Radio Promotion category and the station's back again this year bidding for a record three gold Gillards in succession but two other West Country stations, Bristol and Gloucestershire, are out to thwart Devon's ambition.
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The stations and the nominees will have to wait until Tuesday 27 September for the announcement of the winners at the Gillards Awards Dinner in the Historic Dockyard, Portsmouth.
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Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Five Live's Jane Garvey is the ceremony presenter and she will be joined by Michael Grade, the Chairman of the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ, to present the coveted miniature busts of Frank Gillard to the gold winners.
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In this 200th anniversary year of the battle of Trafalgar - and in the shadow of HMS Victory - there will be the inevitable Nelson touch to this year's awards dinner.
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The awards are named in honour of the founder of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Local Radio in England, Frank Gillard, who died in 1998.
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The Frank Gillard Awards 2005 - nominations
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The Breakfast Programme
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Newcastle - Mike Parr Breakfast Show
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Three Counties Radio - The Robert Perrone Breakfast Show
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ WM - The Adrian Goldberg Breakfast Show
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Programme Presenter
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Berkshire - Andrew Peach
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Leeds - Graham Liver and Nicola Rees
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Merseyside - Tony Snell
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Coverage of a News Story
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Nottingham - The Death of Brian Clough
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Solent - Silent Calls
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Southern Counties Radio - General Election
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Interactive Programme
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Northampton - The Weekender
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Oxford - Bill Heine Show
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Three Counties Radio - The Robert Perrone Breakfast Show
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Reporter
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Cleveland - Jonathan Swingler
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Cumbria - Gordon Swindlehurst
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Solent - Jo Palmer
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Sports Coverage
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Derby - Sportscene Special: Brian Clough
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Oxford - Didcot Town FA Vase Special
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio York - City Till I Die
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Social Action Campaign
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Berkshire - Oxford Road - The Story
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Bristol - Babe's Big Appeal
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ GMR - Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ GMR's "4 Life" Campaign
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Radio Feature
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Lincolnshire - Carla's Story
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Southern Counties Radio - Diary of a Sex Change
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Stoke - Making Waves
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Outside Broadcast
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Cleveland - Tees Valley Day
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Merseyside - Halfway to Paradise
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Solent - Trafalgar 200: The Son et Lumiere
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Religious Programming
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Derby - Compilation Sunday Breakfast Show
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Nottingham - Sunday Breakfast and Lunchtime Programmes
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Shropshire - Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Shropshire Religion
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Radio Promotion
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Bristol - Bringing Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ the Bacon
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Devon - A Christmas Murder Mystery
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Gloucestershire - Dick Whittington
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Diversity
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Berkshire
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Lincolnshire
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Merseyside
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Station of the Year
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Cumbria
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Merseyside
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Three Counties Radio
