Pride of Britain Awards

2009 Winner Doris Long She may be 95, but Doris Long isn’t prepared for life to slow down just yet. Famed for her fundraising stunts, she is also the world’s oldest abseiler. Widow Doris has a daughter, Helen, three grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Her passion for abseiling was sparked in 1999, when on holiday […]

2009 Winner Sir Peter Mansfield Nobel Prize winner Peter Mansfield has saved millions of lives with his invention.  Sir Peter, 75, failed his 11-plus and left school at 15 with no qualifications. But an article on rockets in the Daily Mirror in 1949 spurred him on to a job at the Rocket Propulsion Establishment in […]

2009 Winner Sally-Ann Sutton Sally-Ann Sutton, 56, had gone for a Christmas Day stroll with her pal Hannah and Hannah’s son Bobbi, then one.  Moments later, a Rottweiler began racing towards them Sally-Ann, who is 5ft 2in and weighs just 7st 10lbs, jumped in front of the buggy as the Rottweiler attacked. Clamping its jaws […]

2009 Winner UK Field Hospital, Afghanistan Camp Bastion Hospital, which lies at the centre of the British military base in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, is a world leader in trauma care. It is a hive of activity night and day, on call to expect the most shocking casualties at any time. The hospital staff working round […]

2009 Winner Jasvinder Sanghera Battling Jasvinder Sanghera was just 14 when her mum showed her a picture of the man she would wed.  Two years later she ran away to escape the marriage. Disowned by her parents she lived in hiding for eight years, sleeping rough and fearing reprisals from her family, who moved to […]

2010 Winner Cameron Small DESPITE suffering from a rare blood disorder which has seen him spend too much of his young life in hospital, aged just 12 Cameron Small has raised almost £100,000 for sick children and helped spearhead an appeal to raise £20 million for a new children’s hospital. He has endured over 900 […]