Pride of Britain Awards

2007 Winner Lydia Cross Brave Lydia Cross has battled against the killer disease meningitis, but still thinks of others by helping to raise crucial awareness of its deadly symptoms. The six-year-old, from Devon, had to have both legs amputated just before her third birthday after her meningitis had been dismissed as an ear infection. But […]

2007 Winner Glasgow Airport Workers When two crazed terrorists crashed a flaming Jeep into the main terminal at Glasgow Airport on June 30, the natural reaction of hundreds of holidaymakers was to run away. But John Smeaton, Michael Kerr, Alex McIlveen and Stephen Clarkson thought otherwise and put their own lives in danger to stop […]

2007 Winner Sir Magdi Yacoub Eminent heart surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub, 71, has performed more transplants than anybody else in the world – saving thousands of lives across the globe. The professor, originally from Egypt, has made pioneering strides in cardiac surgery since moving to Britain in 1962. He founded the Chain Of Hope charity […]

2007 Winner Chloe Gambrill Chloe Gambrill was just six years old when she signed up to run the Cancer Research UK Race For Life in memory of her “beloved nanny” who died of cancer. But, tragically, just five weeks before the race in July 2005, Chloe was diagnosed with leukaemia. Despite starting an intensive course […]

2007 Winner Sgt Michelle Cunningham and The EOD Unit When fire-fighters realised they didn’t have the skills to tackle a highly dangerous explosion in a pyrotechnics factory, bomb disposal expert Sergeant Michelle Cunningham immediately made her way to the scene. Michelle, 32, faces danger on a daily basis as part of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal […]

2007 Winner Robert Dunn He was just 12 years old, but it fell to Robert Dunn to save his entire family from a crazed attacker who burst into their home brandishing a meat cleaver. The youngster was at home one evening in October last year with his mum Samantha, nephew Jayden and pregnant sister Riana, […]