Clients Barratt Mercia and Barratt Northampton picked up three awards between them in this year’s prestigious What House? competition.

Barratt Mercia was awarded a silver prize in the Best Partnership category for it’s Bluebell project in Camp Hill, Nuneaton, whilst Barratt Northampton scooped gold for its Vizion development in Milton Keynes for Best Landcape and a silver for its NU@D2 development in Northampton for Best Sustainable Development.

Barratt’s regional managing director, Richard Brooke attended the glittering ceremony at London’s Gosvenor House Hotel, hosted by Jimmy Carr, to collect the prizes.

Longstanding Unsworth Sugden client, the Earl Shilton Building Society, has been recognised as one of the country’s top children’s account providers at a national awards ceremony.

The Society was highly commended in the Best Children’s Account Provider category at the 2010 Moneyfacts Awards, which were held at the Millennium Mayfair Hotel in London last Friday. A representative from the Unsworth Sugden PR team accompanied employees from Earl Shilton to the awards, which were hosted by ITN News’ Economics Editor, Daisy McAndrew.

This was the first year that Earl Shilton has been nominated  at these awards, so to finish second only to the winners in its category was a fantastic achievement.

Subsequent work by the PR department has seen the story feature in both the Hinckley Times and the Leicester Mercury.

ESBS' Jamie Clarke with guest host Daisy McAndrew

Client Westleigh Developments sponsored Leicester’s high profile ProCon Awards and the black tie dinner and presentation at the Walker’s Stadium took place last night - see www.procon-leicestershire.co.uk for more info.