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³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Cymru Wales was celebrating tonight after scooping 11 trophies at the BAFTA Cymru Awards 2010.

At a star-studded ceremony at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Cymru Wales took top honours across a broad range of genres, including sport, drama, news and current affairs, interactive and factual.

In factual, Huw Edwards was named Best Onscreen Presenter for his The Prince And The Plotter programme about the investiture of the Prince of Wales.

Best Camera (non-drama) was won by Wayne Derrick, who travelled to the Arctic Circle with Sir Ranulph Fiennes and John Simpson for Top Dogs: Adventures In War Sea And Ice, while Bryn Terfel's Snowdonia was named Best Music Programme.

Gareth Jones won for Frontline Afghanistan in the Best Factual Programme category and dedicated his Bafta trophy to the Welsh soldiers fighting on the frontline.

In drama, three of ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Cymru Wales's network series, Torchwood, Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures were honoured. Torchwood: Children of Earth took top spot for Best Drama Series and Best Editor. Doctor Who scored in the Best Design and Best Make-Up categories, while the website for The Sarah-Jane Adventures won Best Interactive.

³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Cymru Wales' flagship rugby programme Scrum V Live took the trophy for Best Coverage of a Live Event, while the stark portrayal of how poverty affected One Family In Wales was named the Best News and Current Affairs programme.

Menna Richards, Director, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Cymru Wales, said: "I am thrilled to see so many ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Cymru Wales programmes picking up such well-deserved awards, and in such a broad range of categories. They are a real tribute to the very talented people who strive to produce such high quality and distinctive content for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Cymru Wales – programming that's enjoyed not just in Wales but across the UK and beyond."

Notes to Editors

The full list of ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Wales winners is as follows:

Best Drama Series/Serial for Television – Torchwood: Children of the Earth - Day One (Peter Bennett)
Best News & Current Affairs – One Family In Wales (Jayne Morgan, Karen Voisey)
Best Factual Programme – Frontline Afghanistan (Gareth Jones)
Best Music Programme – Bryn Terfel's Snowdonia: Closer To Home (Iwan Russell-Jones, Rhian Williams)
Best Interactive – The Sarah Jane Adventures (Richard Jenkins, Anwen Aspden)
Best Camera: Not Drama – Top Dogs: Adventures In War, Sea and Ice – Polar (Wayne Derrick)
Best Editor – Torchwood: Children of the Earth – Day One (Will Oswald)
Best Design – Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars (Edward Thomas)
Best Make-Up – Doctor Who: The End of Time - Part One (Barbara Southcott)
Best Coverage of a Live Event – Scrum V Live (Huw Tal)
Best On-Screen Presenter – The Prince And The Plotter (Huw Edwards)

JW