A PHOTOGRAPHER who has taken pictures for your No.1 community newspaper, the Advertiser/Messenger, has snapped up a national award.

The Best Photography award from Cream advertising is freelance photographer Nic Gaunt's second award for his self-promotional calendar.

The calendar, entitled Ink, also won a certificate of merit in the National Business Calendar Awards earlier this year.

The 31-year-old, from Stockton-on-Teme, said: "I have tried to make the calendar show how something as simple and everyday as ink can be used to create powerful images."