A MEDIA production company based in Herefordshire has been nominated for three awards.

The Rural Media Company, which is a digital arts charity, has been nominated in three categories for the 2016 Royal Television Society Midlands Awards.

Its recent project Golden Fire, which was supported by Heritage Lottery Fund and Heineken, has been nominated in the Best Digital Innovation category.

This smartphone app celebrates Herefordshire’s cider making history and contains films, archive footage, photography, oral histories, and tourist information.

Rural Media is the Midlands network centre for Random Acts, a national scheme supported by Arts Council England and Channel 4, which enables young artists aged 16 to 24 to produce their first broadcast standard short film.

Send Her Victorious about a drag queen that hides extreme Islamophobic views has been nominated for the Best New Talent category.

Rural Media has been publishing the national magazine and web portal, Travellers’ Times, for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers for more than 15 years.

Its latest film, The Oldest Show on the Road, featuring poet and author, Damian Le Bas, has been nominated for an RTS Diversity Award.