A team from One and guests joined the great and the good in the world of advertising, media, PR, digital, TV, Radio, in the North West as they gathered at the Palace Hotel, Manchester for the annual How-Do awards.

A champagne reception was followed by a heart felt speech by Robert Shrimsley, the managing editor of FT.com highlighting the ongoing struggle of journalism in the world of free access to online content.

An impressive total of thirteen awards were presented including “Best Media Website” which was sponsored by One and the award presented to Joanne Birtwistle of winners, TheBusinessDesk.com by our very own Graeme Wood.

In the audience of over 500 people it was great to run into some old agency friends including our lovable news hound, Tony Murray, Roger Ward, David Bailey from Clock Creative, which also triumphed in the Design Agency category, and Martin Anderson as well as Jon Keefe and Gez Daring from KMP Digitata who provided a very engaging live Twitter feed displayed in prominent positions around the event.

We all look forward to doing it again next year!