2001 Winner Sab Sahota-Lyons To her pupils, Sab Sahota-Lyons is an inspirational English teacher whose memory is so sharp that she can reel off whole chunks of text by heart and recall quotes and even whole paragraphs with ease. But what is particularly astonishing about Sab is that she is also blind. Determined not to […]
Month: June 2021
Neighbour of the Year
2001 Winner Norah Peyton At 79, great-great granny Norah Peyton could be forgiven for wanting a quiet life. But when drug pushers moved onto her estate, Norah decided to fight back. Thanks to her astonishing courage and vigilance she has now managed to cut crime in her area of Gorton, Manchester, by 70 per cent. […]
Fundraiser of the Year
2001 Winner Jill Farwell Jill Farwell’s beautiful redheaded daughter Katie was three years old and her brother Tom was six months when they were diagnosed with an extremely rare degenerative disorder. There is no cure and Jill had to watch as they gradually lost the ability to walk, talk or even swallow. Jill, a former […]
Conservation Award
2001 Winner Dot Beeson Dot Beeson was out walking her dog one summer’s morning in 1979 when she noticed a swan caught in a fishing line. Although she’d never, had any particular interest in birds, let alone touched one before, Dot was determined to help. After enlisting the services of a local vet to free […]
Lifetime Achievement
2002 Winner Sir John Sulston President Bill Clinton called it the “most wondrous map ever produced by mankind”. Others have compared the mapping of the human genome to the discovery of fire or the invention of the wheel. It is set to revolutionise science and usher in a golden age in medical treatment. Although it […]
Special Award
2002 Winner The Heroes of September 11 Emergency service workers the world over are prepared to put their lives on the line to save others. But rarely has their dedication been more clear than on September 11, 2001. Hundreds of firefighters, police officers and ambulance crews rushed to the World Trade Center in New York […]