The Oxford Mail’s features editor has beaten a string of national publications to win a travel writing award.

Tim Hughes won the Best Newspaper Article category of the French Travel Article of the Year Awards. The awards are organised by the Association of British Travel Organisers to France (ABTOF).

His winning entry was a piece on mountain biking and other adventure sports in Les Deux Alpes, called Mountain Biking Down a Glacier is Snow Joke.

The award was presented at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in Kensington, London, yesterday.

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