Agfa director Laurence Roberts (right) presents the Newspaper Printer of the Year Award to Brendan Elebert, general manager of City West Printing (for the Irish Independent)

Editor of The Times, Robert Thomson (centre) holds the Award for National Newspaper of the Year, presented by Stora Enso's Jukka Kaarlehto

Stuart Remmer (centre) collects the Award for Regional Newspaper of the Year, won by the Yorkshire Post. Fujifilm Graphic Systems business development manager Adrian Muttitt gets a hug!

DTI's Joann Froelich presents the Award for Sunday Newspaper of the Year to Mail on Sunday design editor Henry Nolan

Best Use of Colour: the winner was the Yorkshire Post. Imaging Operations Manager Mike Fisher collects the Award from Kodak Polychrome Graphics sales and marketing director Terry Baber

Picdar commercial director Rod Hunt (left) with Ron Green, managing editor of the Kent Messenger Group, winner of Weekly Newspaper of the Year

News International's Eddie McIlwaine (production director) and Matthew Bumstead (senior origination specialist), pictured centre, receive the Award for Best Implementation of CTP Technology from Kurt Smits of Agfa, presented on behalf of Agfa subsidiary Autologic

The FT's 'How to Spend It' supplement editor Gillian de Bono collects the Award for Best Heatset Supplement from Precision Colour printing sales director Alex Evans

Usher Walker sales director Iain Maloney (left) presents Irish Independent editor Vincent Doyle with the Award for Best Coldset Supplement

Representing the Newspaper Awards team, Helen Hargreaves presents the trophy for Special Interest Newspaper of the Year to Times Educational Supplement production support manager Wayne Thorpe, of News International (Knowsley)

Newspaper Society president Edwin Boorman (left) presents Evening Gazette editor Paul Robertson with the Award for Newspaper Design of the Year

West Ferry Printers' pre-press manager Tony Booth (centre) takes the Award for Best Use of Digital Communications from AdFast director Jim Black, chairman of the Newspaper Society's Technical Forum

Best Daily Newspaper on the World Wide Web: Jon Simcox, head of technology at pcsdotNet (left) presents the Award to Simon Waldman, director of digital publishing at The Guardian, for Guardian Unlimited.

Best Weekly Newspaper on the World Wide Web: Jewish Chronicle editor Ned Temko (centre) collects the Award from Mark Read, sales manager of sponsor pcsdotNet

"Throughout his career, Freddy has made an enormous contribution to the regional newspaper industry and has served on many associated committees and organisations, including the Scottish Newspaper Proprietors' Association, the Young Newspapermen's Association, Master Printers of Scotland and the Press Council, now the Press Complaints Commission. He is still an active member of the Commonwealth Press Union and the World Association of Newspapers.

A past president of the Newspaper Society, Freddy was made a CBE in 1993, and has been a non-executive director of Johnston Press since his retirement as chairman in April last year.

Under Freddy's control, his family business grew from just four titles and £100,000 turnover in the 1960s to the present day Johnston Press - one of the largest and most successful newspaper publishing operations, a near billion pound company comprising almost 250 titles and employing 9,000 staff. "