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National Lottery award winners revealed
The winners of the sixth annual National Lottery Awards, which aim to recognise the contribution that Lottery-funded schemes provide in local communities across the UK, have been revealed.
A total of 21 projects across seven individual categories reached the final stage of the 2009 awards, with the winners and runners-up unveiled as part of a special television show screened live on BBC1 on 5 September. Sefton Performing Arts and Creative Education Centre picked up the award for the best Lottery-funded arts project, while a new community sports pavilion for Beragh Red Knights gaelic games club in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, won the best sports project.
The restoration of Stourport-on-Severn's Canal Basins in Worcestershire, was awarded the best heritage project of 2009 and the RSPB's Old Moor Nature Reserve in the Dearne Valley, South Yorkshire, picked up the best environment project prize. Broadcaster Jackie Brambles said: "Each year the National Lottery Awards recognises the incredible impact that Lottery-funded projects have on people and communities across the UK."
There were also awards for the best education, health and voluntary projects.
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