The Daily Telegraph has the most nominations for this year's British Press Awards, which perhaps isn't surprising given its MP expenses scoop was surely the biggest event in the British newspaper industry in the last twelve months.

The broadsheet gets nineteen mentions on the newspaper industry's flagship awards shortlists, published this week. The Guardian actually has the same number of nominations, though two of its nominees also work on its sister title The Observer, confusing the overall nom count somewhat.

The newspaper industry's big night out is on 23 Mar in London.

British Press Awards nominations in full:

Reporter: News of the World - Mazher Mahmood, The Daily Telegraph - Robert Winnett, The Guardian - Paul Lewis, The Mail on Sunday - David Rose, The Mail on Sunday - Jason Lewis, The Times - Andrew Norfolk.

Foreign Reporter: The Daily Mail - Richard Pendlebury, The Guardian - Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, The Independent - Robert Fisk, The Sunday Times - Marie Colvin, The Sunday Times - Dan McDougall, The Times - Martin Fletcher.

Showbiz Reporter: Daily Mirror - Tom Bryant, Daily Mirror - Fiona Cummins, Daily Mirror - Sarah Tetteh, Daily Mirror - Clemmie Moodie, News of the World - Dan Wootton, Sunday Mirror - Dean Piper, The People - Katie Hind, The Sun - Gordon Smart, The Sun - Colin Robertson.

Business & Finance Journalist: The Daily Mail - Alex Brummer, The Daily Telegraph - Jeremy Warner, The Guardian and The Observer - Jill Treanor, The Independent - Hamish McRae, The Observer - Larry Elliott, The Sunday Times - Iain Dey.

Political Journalist: The Daily Telegraph - Benedict Brogan, The Daily Telegraph - Robert Winnett, The Financial Times - George Parker, The Guardian - Patrick Wintour, The Observer - Andrew Rawnsley, The Sunday Telegraph - Matthew D'Ancona, The Times - Daniel Finkelstein.

Sports Journalist: The Daily Mail - Martin Samuel, The Daily Telegraph - Ian Chadband, The Guardian - David Conn, The Guardian - Donald McRae, The Mail on Sunday - Rob Draper, The Mail on Sunday - Patrick Collins, The Sunday Times - Paul Kimmage, The Times - Matthew Syed, The Times - Mike Atherton.

Specialist Journalist: Financial Times - Martin Wolf, The Daily Mail - Michael Hanlon, The Daily Telegraph - David Millward, The Guardian and The Observer - John Vidal, The Independent - Terri Judd, The Mail on Sunday - Jason Lewis.

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Feature Writer: The Daily Mail - Richard Pendlebury, The Daily Telegraph - Mick Brown, The Guardian - Tanya Gold, The Independent - Johann Hari, The Sunday Times - John Arlidge, The Sunday Times - AA Gill.

Columnist: Daily Mirror - Brian Reade, Financial Times - Martin Wolf, The Guardian - Tanya Gold,
The Guardian - Marina Hyde, The Guardian - Charlie Brooker, The Independent - Ian Birrell, The Sun - Kelvin MacKenzie, The Times - Caitlin Moran.

Critic: The Daily Mail - Quentin Letts, The Daily Telegraph - Charles Spencer, The Evening Standard - Brian Sewell, The Mail on Sunday - Craig Brown, The Sunday Times - AA Gill, The Sunday Times - Waldemar Januszczak.

Interviewer: The Daily Telegraph - Elizabeth Grice, The Daily Telegraph - Mick Brown, The Observer - Carole Cadwalladr, The Sunday Times - Ariel Leve, The Sunday Times - Camilla Long, The Times - Ginny Dougary.

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Young Journalist: The Daily Mirror - Andrew Gregory, The Daily Telegraph - Holly Watt, The Daily Telegraph - Jon Swaine, The Financial Times - Tom Burgis, The News of The World - Guy Basnett, The Observer - Tom Lamont, The Sunday Times - Miles Amoore, The Times - Sheera Frankel.

International Journalist: Abdel Kareem Nabil Suleiman - Egypt, Ahmad Zeydabadi - Iran, Asos Hardi - Iraq, Dawit Isaac - Eritrea, Dhondup Wangchen - China, Eynulla Fatullayev - Azerbaijan, Gustavo Azócar - Venezuela, Hanevy Ould Dehah - Mauritania, Hla Hla Win - Burma, Ismail Cihan Hayirsevener - Turkey, J. S. Tissainayagam - Sri Lanka, Kim Seong-Min - North Korea, Mashallah Shamsolvaezin - Iran, Maziar Bahari - Iran, Olga Kotovskaya - Russia, Ricardo González Alfonso - Cuba.

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Photographer: Getty Images - Peter Macdiarmid, Press Association Images - Lewis Whyld, Press Association Images - Owen Humphreys, Press Association Images - Stefan Rousseau, The Daily Mail - Jamie Wiseman, The Times - Peter Nicholls.

Sports Photographer: Freelance - Bradley Ormesher, Press Association Images - Owen Humphreys, Reuters - Eddie Keogh, The Daily Mail - Andy Hooper, The Guardian - Tom Jenkins, The Sun - Richard Pelham.

Cartoon: The Daily Mail - Stanley McMurtry, The Daily Telegraph - Nick Garland, The Daily Telegraph - Matt Pritchett, The Independent - Dave Brown, The Mail on Sunday - Michael Heath, The Observer - Chris Riddell, The Times - Peter Brookes.

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Scoop: The Mail on Sunday - Jason Lewis for "Mi6 chief blows his cover on Facebook"; The Sunday Express - Marco Giannangeli and Jason Groves for "Jacqui Smith put adult film on expenses"; The Daily Mail - Dan Newling for "Cabinet minister's cleaner is alleged illegal immigrant"; The Guardian - For revelations about the death of Ian Tomlinson; The Sunday Times - Claire Newell and Jonathan Calvert for "Cash for Amendments"; The Daily Telegraph - MPs' Expenses.

Campaign: Daily Mirror - Fair Tips Campaign, The Guardian - The Tax Gap Series, The Sunday Telegraph - Robert Mendick, The Guardian - Climate Change Campaign, The Sunday Times Insight - Lords Investigation, The Daily Telegraph - MPs' Expenses.

Cudlipp Award - for outstanding tabloid journalism: The Daily Mail - Richard Pendlebury and Jamie Wiseman: Afghanistan boy soldiers; The Daily Mirror - Andrew Penman and Nick Sommerlad Investigate; The Daily Mirror - Hillsborough: Justice for 96; The Independent - Baltimore Crime Exchange; The Sun - Sunemployment; The Sunday Mirror - Christmas salute to war heroes.

Digital Innovation: Telegraph.co.uk - 2009 Flower Show; The Guardian G20 Coverage; The Guardian on the iPhone; The Sun - SunTalk; The Times - Times Labs; The Wall Street Journal - Berlin Wall Interactive.

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Regular Supplement: The Daily Telegraph - Telegraph Magazine, The Guardian - Guardian Weekend Magazine, The Mail on Sunday - Live Magazine, The Mail on Sunday - You Magazine, The Sunday Times - Culture, The Times - Eureka.

Special Supplement: Daily Mirror - Hillsborough Campaign, Evening Standard Ltd - The 1000, Financial Times - The Future of Capitalism, The Daily Telegraph - The Complete Expenses Files, The Guardian - 100 Years of Great Press Photographs, The Sunday Times - Climate Change

Well, as you probably know, it was the film Baftas last night. Hey, you probably watched it on the telly. But it would still be wrong not to report on it here, so here goes. Iraq drama 'The Hurt Locker' was the big winner on the night, which could bode well for its Oscar chances.

The film took six awards, including Best Film, and the Best Director gong for Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman ever to win it. The film's biggest competitor of the awards season, 'Avatar', directed by Bigelow's ex husband James Cameron, missed out on the bigger awards, but was rewarded for production design and visual effects.

Brits Colin Firth (pictured) and Carey Mulligan triumphed in the acting stakes, the former taking the Best Actor award for 'A Single Man', the latter the Best Actress gong for 'An Education'. Firth made what was probably the best speech of the night, ie, not one that made everyone listening cringe, so that was nice. US comedienne Mo'Nique was named Best Supporting Actress for her role in 'Precious', whilst Christoph Waltz took the Best Supporting Actor honour for his turn in Quentin Tarantino's 'Inglourious Basterds' – probably one of the least surprising results of the night, as he has proved a very consistent winner in that category during this awards season. 

There were also awards for the film 'Fish Tank', named Outstanding British Film, six times nominated George Clooney film 'Up In The Air', which won in the Adapted Screenplay category, and 'The Young Victoria', which was rewarded for costume design, as well as make-up and hair. Pixar's 'Up' emerged victorious in the Animated Film Category, Duncan Jones' 'Moon' was pronounced Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director Or Producer, and that Kristen Stewart from those vampire films got the Orange Rising Star Award.

Vanessa Redgrave got this year's fellowship, and spent a long time on stage talking about not much, but she is a great actress and outspoken activist, so everyone patiently listened, as they ought, really.

Jonathan Ross's hosting left a lot to be desired, if you ask me. Of course, nobody ever does ask me about such things. If they did, we'd have good hosts for award ceremonies.

Melvyn Bragg has received a special award at the last ever South Bank Show Awards (unless they decide at some point in the future to bring back 'The South Bank Show', and the awards). The Outstanding Achievement Award - in recognition of the broadcaster's 32 years of work on the cancelled show - was presented by Richard Attenborough, and tributes from the likes of Victoria Wood, Beryl Bainbridge and Prince Charles were screened.  

In his tribute, Prince Charles criticised ITV's decision to axe 'The South Bank Show'. He said in the pre-recorded message: "A long time ago it rightly became an important contribution to the vibrancy of the country’s culture... Now oblivion is not the place for the arts and I cannot say I am encouraged as mainstream television abandons such a unique and special commitment. Civilisation needs all the help it can get, more so today than ever before, but now it loses one of its greatest champions. It is a sad loss".

Bragg, who says he's "baffled" by the decision to end the arts programme said after the ceremony: "I managed to fight back the tears... but it was a close run thing at the very end after David Attenborough said the things he said. It was a great afternoon, and I hadn't expected that kind of warmth and that kind of praise. I come from a background where you don't get praise, but it was amazing, it really was".

Other winners included Florence and The Machine, who took the pop gong, The Donmar's production of 'A Streetcar Named Desire', which took the theatre award, and 'The Thick Of It', which triumphed in the comedy category.

The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards have taken place at London's Prince Of Wales theatre, and The Royal Court has taken four out of the nine gongs awarded. Jez Butterworth's 'Jerusalem' got Best New Play, Mark Rylance got Best Actor for his performance in the play, the Most Promising Playwright honour went to Alia Bano for 'Shades', and Rupert Goold won the directing gong for 'Enron'.

The Donmar Warehouse also had multiple wins, taking three awards: Rachel Weisz was named Best Actress for her role in 'A Streetcar Named Desire', Christopher Oram took the Best Designer award for his work on 'Red', and Jude Law received the The John and Wendy Trewin Award for Best Shakespearean Performance for his turn as Hamlet in the Donmar's production staged at the Wyndham's Theatre.

The Lyric Hammersmith triumphed in remaining two categories, with The Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical going to 'Spring Awakening' and The Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising Newcomer (other than a playwright) being awarded to actor Tom Sturridge for 'Punk Rock'.

As you may be aware, the National TV Awards took place in London last night and Stephen Fry and Ant and Dec did especially well, taking two awards each.

Fry, receiving the Special Recognition award, told the audience: "I really am completely staggered by this, I had no idea this was going to happen I have the highest possible belief in television at its best. I think of it as the nation's fireplace, about which we can gather together and be lit by its light and warmed by its heat. It can make us feel better about each other. And it can make us feel better about ourselves." Fry, whose 'In America' programme received a documentary award, broke a recent Twitter silence for the occasion.

Ant and Dec, meanwhile, were awarded the Best Popular Entertainment Presenter gong for the ninth year running, and their 'Saturday Night Takeaway' show was given the Best Entertainment Programme award. Ant said: "In the car on the way here we said the winning streak's got to end soon and thought it would be tonight, we really did”, and Dec added: "We're just so pleased, so honoured and so touched that you still think we're worthy of receiving this award".

Elsewhere, 'The X Factor' was named Most Popular TV Talent show,  'Gavin and Stacey' got Most Popular Comedy Programme and 'Dr Who' was judged Best Drama whilst its outgoing star David Tennant was honoured with  the award for Best Drama Performance.

Organisers of the Camden Crawl have announced a new awards show that will take place as part of this year's festival, aiming to big up the best new bands.

Replacing the Indie Idle battle of the bands competition that used to peak at the Crawl, the new Emerging Talent Awards will see bands put themselves forward for public vote via a bespoke website. Shortlists for Best Band, Best Solo Act and Best Live Band will be complied from public votes, with a bunch of pundits picking the overall winners, though there will also be a Peoples Choice gong selected by a second round of public voting. 

Bands can put themselves forward for the awards right now at www.emergingtalentawards.com.

The ETAs are being staged in partnership with Rockfeedback, a fact I don't seem to have managed to crowbar into the main bit of this story.

So, the great, the good, the beautiful, and I don't know, maybe the ugly of the British music press and PR community amassed in a little bar just down the road from CreativeBusiness HQ last night for the annual Record Of The Day Awards. Now in their seventh year, these are primarily voted for by media and publicity people, and celebrate the skills of those who ramble about music for a living, and those who persuade the ramblers to ramble about this rather than that.

Among the winners were the Observer Music Monthly, which was voted Magazine Of The Year just weeks after its owners, Guardian Media Group, announced they were shutting the music supplement down. Collecting his award, editor Caspar Llewellyn Smith joked that it doesn't get better then winning the Magazine Of The Year gong at the RoTD Awards, and so now he and his team would be calling it quits.

Elsewhere Popjustice's Peter Robinson picked up two writer of the year awards, one for Breaking Music and one Student Choice. Music critic's music critic Alexis Petridis of The Guardian won reviewer of the year for the seventh year in a row, leading host Matt Everitt to joke that Alexis Petridis was winning the Alexis Petridis Award For Music Reviewing. While the surprise of the evening was probably Editor Of The Year, which went to the boss of one of the smaller music mags out there, Kruger Magazine.

On the PR side of the equation, the Polydor press team picked up three gongs, one for best in-house team, and two for Polydor publicist Adrian Read, who won Best In-House PR Person and Best PR Campaign For A Non-UK Act.

Finally, there were three student-based awards this year, organised in association with us here at CreativeStudent.net. We consulted a panel of opinion forming student journalist types about which publication and professional music writer they most admired, and NME.com and Peter Robinson came out top respectively. Meanwhile, we threw the work of a barrage of student music journalists in the direction of some pros, and they picked out Simon Catling from Student Direct in Manchester for the prestigious Student Music Journalist Of The Year award. Well done him.

Coming up, the full list of winners. But first, here's RoTD chief Paul Scaife saying things: "The rise of digital platforms and blogs has seen the media landscape shift dramatically in recent times but this has not affected the best of UK music journalism and PR. Interest in great writing remains high and is perhaps best illustrated by the record number of votes we received this year.  To properly represent the evolving media world we now inhabit we have re-introduced the 'Best Free Magazine' category and have launched a brand new award, 'Best Feature', to reflect how in-depth, intelligent music journalism deserves highlighting. The event marks a real celebration of the music media and all those who work in it".

The full list of winners:

Student Choice Publication Of The Year: NME.Com
Student Choice Writer Of The Year: Peter Robinson
Student Music Journalist Of The Year: Simon Catling, Student Direct, Manchester Uni

Magazine Of The Year: The Observer Music Monthly
Best Music Coverage In A Newspaper: The Guardian
Best Music Coverage In The Popular Press: The Sun 'Something For The Weekend'
Free Magazine Of The Year: The Stool Pigeon
Digital Publication Of The Year: The Quietus
Best Blog: No Pain In Pop
Feature Of The Year: Warp Records 20th Anniversary Feature - Clash Magazine, written by Matthew Bennett And Kris Needs

Live Reviews Writer Of The Year: John Doran, The Quietus, NME And Others
Record Reviews Writer Of The Year: Winner: Alexis Petridis, The Guardian
Breaking Music Writer: Peter Robinson, Popjustice
Editor Of The Year: Mike Williams, Kruger

Best Independent PR Company: Stoked
Best In-House PR Department: Polydor Records
Best Independent PR Person: Beth Brookfield, Purple PR
Best In-House PR Person: Adrian Read, Polydor

Best PR Campaign For A Breakthrough UK Act: Toast PR for Florence And The Machine 
Best PR Campaign For An Established UK Act: Michael Cleary (formerly of XL Recordings now of Columbia Records) for Dizzee Rascal

Best PR Campaign For An Established Non-UK Act: Taponeswa Mavunga - Atlantic Records for Jay Z
Best PR Campaign For A Breakthrough Non-UK Act: Adrian Read - Polydor Records for Lady Gaga

The PR Reputation Management Award: Michael Cleary (Formerly of XL Recordings now of Columbia Records) - Dizzee Rascal

Outstanding Contribution To Music Journalism Award: Phil Alexander 
Outstanding Contribution To PR Award: Alan Edwards

So, in case you hadn't noticed, this is the week for celebrating the great and the good among the UK's student media community. Tuesday night saw the Student Radio Awards take over the Indigo bit of London's big dome, while last night The Guardian dished out its awards to the students who write well at Camden's Proud Gallery. And tonight Record Of The Day will present the CreativeStudent.net supported Best Student Music Journalist gong at their awards for music journalism and PR, which is all jolly exciting.

But let's take a step back and list, celebrate and congratulate the winners of the Guardian's student media awards for 2009, which are as follows:

Reporter Of The Year: Michael Stothard - University Of Cambridge
Feature Writer Of The Year: Zing Tsjeng - University Of Cambridge
Photographer Of The Year: Stuart Capper - Blackpool & The Fylde College
Publication Design Of The Year: The Journal - University Of Edinburgh
Critic Of The Year: Catherine Sylvain - University Of Edinburgh
Broadcast Journalist Of The Year: Steph Oliver - Nottingham Trent University
Sports Writer Of The Year: Ben Riley-Smith - University Of Cambridge
Diversity Writer Of The Year: Jessica Tabalba - London School Of Economics
Travel Writer Of The Year: Clyde Macfarlane - University Of Manchester
Columnist Of The Year: Charlotte Runcie - University Of Cambridge
Student Journalist Of The Year: Patrick Kingsley - University Of Cambridge

Newspaper Of The Year: Leeds Student - University Of Leeds
Magazine Of The Year: The Oxymoron - Oxford University
Website Of The Year: www.nouse.co.uk - University Of York

So it was the Student Radio Awards in London last night, the annual bash to celebrate the good stuff in the world of UK college radio, staged by the Student Radio Association. In a Sony Awards style, gold, silver and bronze awards were presented in each category. The big winner of the night was probably Leeds-based LSRfm who were named Best Student Radio Station and won the prize for Best Student Radio Chart Show. LSR types also picked up bronze and/or silver awards for Best Male Presenter, Best Scripted Programme and Best Journalistic Programming.

For fans of lists, here is the full list of winners...

Best Newcomer
Gold - Martyn Littlewood - Fly FM
Silver - Julie Ann Lough - RaW
Bronze - Matthew Hemmaty - Shock Radio

Best Marketing and Branding
Gold - Smoke Radio
Silver - URN
Bronze - 1449AM URB

The Student Radio Chart Show Award
Gold - LSRfm.com
Silver - Click Teesside
Bronze - Jam Radio

Best Journalistic Programming
Gold - York Report - URY
Silver - campus crunch - LSRfm.com
Bronze - Newslink Weekly - LSRfm.com

Best Technical Achievement
Gold - Project Sunshine - URF
Silver - Onair Loop System - Xtreme Radio
Bronze - SurgeCart and Surge Podcast Generator - Surge Radio

Best Interview
Gold - Hilary Benn on Binyam Mohamed - Joshua Chambers, URY
Silver - Interview with the most hated woman in America - Tom Goble, RaW
Bronze - Zodiac Cartel with Radio ClubFoot - Radio ClubFoot, URN

Best Live Event or Outside Broadcast
Gold - Smoke's Summer Send Off - Smoke Radio
Silver - Lounge On The Farm 2009 - CSR FM
Bronze - Varsity 2009 - URN

Best Scripted Programming
Gold - Slow Hands - RaW
Silver - Leeds Tealights - LSRfm.com
Bronze - The Super Hero's Girlfriend - BiRST

Best Entertainment Programme
Gold - The Big Chewsie - RaW
Silver - The Stephen and David Sunday Lunchtime Show - Xpression FM
Bronze - The Technical Difficulties - URY

Best Specialist Music Programming
Gold - Radio ClubFoot - URN
Silver - The Evening Show - URN
Bronze - Jamie's Show About Music - LCR

Best Female Presenter
Gold - Julie Ann Lough - RaW
Silver - Josie Standbrook - GU2
Bronze - Kate Lamble - Roundhouse Radio

Best Male Presenter
Gold - Fergus Dufton - URN
Silver - Sam Jarrett - Fly FM
Bronze - Max Dickins - LSRfm.com

Kevin Greening Award
The Big Chewsie - RaW

Best Student Radio Station
Gold - LSRfm.com
Silver - Fly FM
Bronze - URN

The London Standard Theatre Awards have taken place in the capital, and the Royal Court has done especially well. The theatre's productions took four awards: 'Jerusalem' by Jez Butterworth was judged Best Play, and Mark Rylance got Best Actor for his role in it, Rupert Goold got Best Director for 'Enron', also staged at the venue, and Alia Bano was named Most Promising Playwright for a piece called 'Shades', which was staged at the Royal Court's Young Writers festival. Henry Hitchings, Evening Standard theatre critic, commented: "The number of awards for productions at the Royal Court is strikingly high, but it’s quite right, as under the artistic direction of Dominic Cooke great things are happening there. This is very much the court’s day".

Other winners included Ian McKellen, who was presented with the Special Award for his contribution to British theatre, and Outstanding Newcomer award recipient Lenny Henry, who has been appearing in a production of Othello, and who joked: "I must be the oldest newcomer there has ever been - which means there is hope for Bruce Forsyth's King Lear". Rachel Weisz took the Best Actress gong, which, as previously reported, has been named after the late Natasha Richardson, who died in a skiing accident this year, and was presented by her mother Vanessa Redgrave.

Mehmet Ergen, artistic director of the Arcola Theatre, and Wayne McGregor, resident choreographer of the Royal Ballet, have been presented with awards from the International Theatre Institute. McGregor received his honour for Excellence in International Dance, in recognition of his aforementioned choreographer role, as well as for his work as artistic director of Random Dance. Ergen, meanwhile, was was honoured with the ITI award for Excellence in International Theatre.