Award for MoS’s Jeff

JEFF Prestridge, Group Wealth and Personal Finance Editor, was last week praised for his journalism at an awards ceremony in London, marking excellence in protection insurance. The awards were organised by insurance broker LifeSearch.

Jeff won the Nick Crossman Award for Outstanding Contribution to Protection Journalism. Lifesearch said: ‘Our industry needs brave journalism to shine a light when we do good, and to challenge us when we don’t.’ Tom Baigrie, LifeSearch chair, said a ‘phone call from Jeff still put the fear of God into us’.