<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Vibrant Vibes radio show</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vibrantvibes@unity101.org">vibrantvibes@unity101.org</a>></span> <br>
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><img src="cid:image004.jpg@01CEE5E5.DE66BEB0" alt="IMG_1564.JPG.jpeg" height="226" hspace="12" align="left" width="302"><u></u><b><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Community radio presenter wins top radio award<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">A radio presenter at Southampton’s award-winning* Unity 101 Community Radio, is celebrating being crowned the national 2013 Radio Personality of the Year<sup>1</sup> by the UK BEFFTA Awards – dubbed the ‘Black BAFTAs’ – which recognises outstanding talents in Black Entertainment Film Fashion Television & Arts. <u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Veronica Gordon, from Southampton, has been presenting the ‘Vibrant Vibes radio show’ on Unity 101 Community Radio for almost 7 years bringing vibrant music –afrobeats, calypso and reggae –and vibrant chat, community news and events, to Southampton’s airwaves. After successfully surviving the BEFFTA Award’s strict short-listing process, Veronica placed as a nominee, and the Award winners were selected by public vote. Veronica received overwhelming support from local people – with scores of Southampton residents backing her to win – and even had a celebrity supporter, her favourite actor Jimmy Akingbola<sup>4</sup>, the actor best known for playing the confident Dr Malick in BBC One’s Holby City.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">The lavish award ceremony took place in London at the weekend and Veronica attended with some of her excited supporters<sup>3 4</sup> travelling from Southampton, walking the red carpet and waiting in anticipation for the results. Not expecting to bring the Award back to Southampton, <b>Veronica </b>said<b>:</b> “I’m still in shock that I won! Some of the other nominees in the category were very popular radio presenters from London, with bigger followings than me so I never thought I’d beat them! When they announced my name as the winner, everything just went blur! I could hear my family and friends cheering and they swept me up into their arms – which was a good thing as my legs would’ve given way! I keep kicking myself now though as I didn’t have a winner’s speech prepared as I wasn’t expecting to win, so I just thanked everyone and proudly mentioned that I’m from Southampton. My award was announced by one of my radio inspirations & previous BEFFTA Award winner, DJ Abrantee from Global Radio’s newest hit station Capital Xtra! Everything was so surreal.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Other BEFFTA UK winners on the night included soul sensation Beverley Knight [Best Female Act], Wiley [Best Male Act], D’Banj [Best Music Video: ‘Oliver Twist’], Fuse ODG from the hit ‘Antenna’ [Best UK Afrobeats Act], <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">Ram Kalyan "Kelly", Station Manager, Unity 101 Community Radio:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif""> "Veronica deserved this award having served Unity 101 for the past 10 years, 7 of which as the presenter of the Vibrant Vibes radio show. She works hard on the show alongside her co-presenter Keesha Edwards and every other Saturday from 6pm to 8pm broadcast a professional and fun show enjoyed by many from all communities. A big well done to Veronica – it's got to be party time now!”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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