the year 2008; Positive Images Children and Young People Now, award for Best Local Press coverage of Young People 2008; Yorkshire Press Awards Editorial Comment Writer of the Year - highly commended 2008; Yorkshire Press Awards Breaking News Story of the Year 2009; Annual Recognition Awards Yorkshire Air Ambulance: Media Award 2010; JP Best Daily to Weekly transition 2013. As The Scarborough News: Commended Paper of Year Newspaper Awards 2013; Shortlisted Weekly Paper of Year Regional Press Awards 2014; Winner Yorkshire Weekly Newspaper of Year O2 Awards 2014; Finalist Yorkshire Weekly Newspaper of the Year O2 Awards 2015; Winner Yorkshire Weekly Newspaper of Year O2 Awards 2016; Commended Yorkshire Weekly Newspaper of Year O2 Awards 2017. The long-serving editor of the paper, Ed Asquith, retired in June 2018. In October 2018, Johnston Press announced that it had put itself up for sale. Footnotes Newspapers published in Yorkshire Publications established in 1882 Scarborough, North Yorkshire 1882 establishments in England Newspapers published by Johnston Press