Quentin Letts wins Edgar Wallace Trophy
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Monday 28 April 2003
Quentin Letts, the Mail's brilliant parliamentary sketch writer, has been awarded the prestigious Edgar Wallace trophy, presented by the London Press Club for writing and reporting of the highest quality.
Home secretary David Blunkett, presented the award at Claridge's. The trophy is the latest in a series of awards in recent months which underlined the remarkable and sustained success of the Daily Mail.
Last month the British Press Awards, the Oscars of journalism, named the Mail as Newspaper of the Year for the third time in five years.
The Mail also took the Front Page of the Year award for its expose of Cherie Blair's e-mails detailing her dealings with convicted fraudster Peter Foster, and the Showbusiness Reporter of the Year title for Baz Bamigboye.
The awards come against the background of ever-rising circulation of the Mail.
Latest figures put it an an average of 2,441,560 copies per day, and increase of more than 42 per cent over the last decade.