STAFF at the Bucks Free Press have been celebrating after the paper scooped a number of prestigious awards.

Chief reporter Lester Posner won the newcomer of the year award at the National Newsquest Editorial Awards, held in Bradford last month.

The Free Press was voted Paid for Newspaper of the Year at last week's Newsquest London Awards, in Hendon.

The paper's decision to recreate Wycombe's famous chair arch for the millennium won the best community campaign of the year award.

Free Press editor Steve Cohen was named editor of the overall newspaper of the year.