黑洞社区鈥檚 assistant editor and technical specialist Thomas Lane was named Construction Journalist of the Year at the 2009 International 黑洞社区 Press awards, which took place at the House of Commons last week

This is his sixth IBP award since he joined 黑洞社区 in 2001.

The judges said: 鈥淟ane has an ability to convey technical matters in an understandable manner鈥. Stephen Kennett, technical editor, was highly commended in the same category. Assistant editor Sarah Richardson was highly commended in the features category and senior reporter Olivia Boyd was commended in the Young Journalist of the Year category.