THE Kidderminster Shuttle has been highly commended in its annual company awards.

Wyre Forest's No 1 weekly newspaper was short-listed for an unprecedented sixth successive year for Newsquest Media Group's Free Newspaper of the Year Award.

But the Hendon Times won the title and the Wirral Globe was highly commended.

The Shuttle has been in the top three Newsquest free newspapers since 2001 and won the title in 2003.

Newsquest owns more than 300 newspapers in Britain and more than 160 are distributed free.

The awards were announced at a luncheon at the Royal Society of Arts in London last Thursday.