Northern Business Journalist of the Year Entry Forms Being Despatched

Yorkshire Bank Northern Business Journalist of the Year 2001 is launched with the despatch of entry forms to potential competitiors in England.

The Yorkshire Bank Northern Business Journalist of the Year Awards begin in earnest this week with the despatch of entry forms to potential competitors.

This years scheme is bigger and better than ever, with three new categories, including two for publications, sitting alongside the established trio which reward individual journalists. The full range of categories now reads:

·   Newspaper of the Year
   
·   Magazine of the Year
   
·   Daily Newspaper Journalist of the Year
   
·   Weekly Newspaper Journalist of the Year
   
·   Magazine Journalist of the Year
   
·   Broadcast Journalist of the Year

In addition, the cash to be awarded to the winner of each category will rise from 400 to 800.

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The awards are open to all journalists and publications covering business which are based between the Trent and Scottish border. Reporters and titles from the national, regional and local media are all eligible to enter and entries can be made in more than category. Submissions must have been published or broadcast between the beginning of June 2000 and the same stage of this year.

Entries must be received by Friday 28 September and the winners will be announced at a presentation dinner, which will also be upgraded this year. The dinner will take place at the Royal Station Hotel, in central Newcastle, on Thursday 15 November.

Commenting on this years awards scheme, Stuart Grimshaw, Yorkshire Banks Chief Executive, said: The Northern Business Journalist of the Year Awards are now an established feature of media life in the north of England. So, in order to recognise and reward the excellent standards of business journalism which exist in the region and encourage editors to devote even more time and space to business issues, we had no hesitation in making the scheme bigger and better than ever this year."    

Entry forms can be obtained from:

Alexander Wright,
Media Relations Consultant,
Yorkshire Bank PLC,
Head Office,
20, Merrion Way,
Leeds
LS2 8NZ.

His telephone and e-mail details are below.
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For further information, please contact: Alexander Wright (e-mail: alexander.wright@eu.nabgroup.com), at Yorkshire Bank, on 0113 247 2510 or Tim Curran (e-mail: tim@ptarmiganpr.co.uk) or Alison McMinn (e-mail: alison@ptarmiganpr.co.uk), at Ptarmigan Consultants, on 0113 242 1155.

Note To Editors

Yorkshire Bank is part of the National Australia Bank Group, (NAB), which is an international financial services group operating across four continents and 15 countries including Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and
Ireland, New Zealand and throughout Asia. NAB has an asset base of A$355 billion (130 billion), assets under administration of A$325 billion (119 billion), more than twelve million customers globally and is ranked 54th largest by revenue in the world. Other members of the group in Europe are Clydesdale Bank in Glasgow, Northern Bank in Belfast and National Irish Bank in Dublin. For more information, visit the National website at www.national.com.au.