The Bath Chronicle’s switch from daily to weekly has helped it scoop the top prize at the Newspaper Society’s Weekly Newspaper Awards.

The Northcliffe-owned Chronicle picked up paid-for weekly newspaper of the year, just over a year after the newspaper scrapped its daily edition and became a weekly.

In its first official ABC audit as a weekly in March this year the Chronicle had a weekly circulation averaging 22,776 in the second half of 2007, compared with an average sale of 12,000 as a daily. This figure dropped to 20,275 for the first half of 2008.