Pride of Britain Awards

2007 Winner Peter Lachanudis & Susan Porter Doorkeeper Peter Lachanudis and security guard Susan Porter knew it was risky protecting Northern Ireland’s parliament building. But even they never expected to come face to face with armed mass murderer Michael Stone. The pair grappled with the notorious Loyalist paramilitary – who’d been released from prison in […]

2007 Winner Carol Miller When a passenger who was only 24 weeks pregnant suddenly went into labour on a plane to Crete, flight attendant Carol Miller found herself delivering a seriously premature 1lb 1oz baby at 30,000ft. Carol, 47, from Liverpool, was working on the flight from Manchester on April 17, when a woman approached […]

2007 Winner Tam Brown Firefighter Tam Brown nearly lost his job after breaching safety rules to rescue a drowning woman. In March this year, Tam, 42, went against brigade regulations which forbid entry into water when he plunged into the swollen River Tay in Perth, Scotland, to reach the woman who was struggling in the […]

2007 Winner Vicki Peters Happily married with two beautiful children and a job she loves, Vicki Peters has much to be thankful for. But in her teenage years she began suffering extreme highs and lows caused by undiagnosed bipolar disorder, became addicted to drink and drugs, and eventually had a severe psychotic breakdown. “I always […]

2007 Winner JK Rowling Twelve years ago, a woman sitting in an Edinburgh coffee shop could be seen scribbling in a notebook, creating the life of schoolboy wizard Harry Potter.  Back then, Joanne Kathleen Rowling was a single parent living on benefits. But now she is one of the most popular modern-day authors and her […]

2007 Winner Lewis Hamilton Racing driver Lewis Hamilton shot to fame this year after a spectacular run of podium finishes in Formula One. The 22-year-old rookie from Stevenage in Hertfordshire won an army of fans after finishing first, second or third in every one of his initial nine races. With his family hailing from Grenada, […]