The Brentwood Gazette won the Weekly Paper of the Year Award at today's Society of Editors' Regional Press Awards 2012.
It beat strong competition in the below 20,000 circulation category from the Bucks Free Press, The Cornishman, Kent Messenger and The Inverness Courier.
Society of Editors executive director Bob Satchwell said: "These awards reflect and spotlight the tremendous journalism that can be found every day or every week across the UK in regional and local newspapers that represent their readers and serve their communities so well."
The ceremony, held in association with HoldtheFrontPage and the Press Association, was held at Savoy Place in London.
It comes after the Gazette was earlier this year awarded best paid-for weekly newspaper in the EDF Energy East of England Media Awards 2012.
