Radio Fox’s achievements were recognised recently when our members were invited to a special reception with the Lord Mayor of Leicester.

The Lord Mayor showed our members round the council chamber at Leicester’s town hall and invited us to join him for drinks.

Prior to this there was a special presentation made by the Lord Mayor to Joe Shikeley and Richard Leatherland, who were jointly named Members Of The Year for 2009 in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the radio station.

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Radio Fox has just enjoyed the most successful night in its twenty one year history, having come away from this year’s National Hospital Radio Awards with the biggest prize of them all.

The station was given the Gold Award in the Station of the Year category, meaning that Radio Fox has been judged to be the UK’s best hospital radio station! The judges said that on the entry, our presenters sounded like they were enjoying themselves and were passionate about what they did, and that the presenters worked well as a team.

This is the second time Fox has won a Gold award, the first being in 2007 when Sandy Iliff won the Female Presenter Of The Year category. In this year’s awards, Fox also picked up highly commendeds in the Special Event (for our Caribbean Carnival coverage) and Station Promo categories, and commended in the Specialist Music show section (for Les Eastham’s Sixties Scene).

Station Director Steve Hack said of our success: “Wow! I think none of us could really believe we had been awarded Gold in Station of the Year – I’m still taking it in! This is a fantastic tribute to the hard work everyone at Radio Fox puts in to their programmes and it’s a brilliant way to start our 21st year on air.”

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