MUMBAI: BBC News had a successful evening at this year's RTS Journalism awards with nine awards, including Scoop of the Year for coverage on the HBOS/Lloyds TSB merger on the BBC News Channel – which was also named news channel of the year.

BBC News also won best News Coverage – Home, for reporting of the banking crisis – and News Programme of the Year for BBC News At Ten.

BBC director of news Helen Boaden said, "We're delighted that the RTS has recognised the quality and excellence of BBC News journalism in this way. It is a testimony to the hard work and dedication of our journalists to be nominated for so many awards."

Panorama won the Current Affairs Home Award with Primark: On The Rack, which revealed the use of child labour in India to supply clothes to the UK. The judges said the programme laid bare "the whole chain from refugee camp to the High Street rail."

The Innovative News prize was awarded to BBC Two's Newsnight for 10 Days To War, which featured Kenneth Branagh, Toby Jones, Juliet Stevenson, Art Malik and Stephen Rea in a series of gripping short dramas about the countdown to war in Iraq.

The Nations and Regions Current Affairs award went to BBC Yorkshire for The Story Of Michael Barnett by Inside Out which reported the death of a man trapped in a drain in a suburban street in Hull during the floods of 2007.