Pride of Britain Awards

2008 Winner Medical Emergency Response Team In the battlefields of Afghanistan, the specialist Medical Emergency Response Team risk their lives every day by flying missions in the hotbed of terrorist activity. Known as the MERT, they serve as Helmand Province’s combat air ambulance. Supported by a bomb disposal team, fire and rescue unit and an […]

2008 Winner Pepe Rahman Hart Pepe has been the Head Teacher of the Trinity Church of England School in Radstock since it opened three years ago when two local schools merged. As a result of her hard work and determination, Pepe, 39, has developed a revolutionary environmental programme which is being adopted in other schools. […]

2008 Winner Professor Robert Edwards Thirty years ago, Lesley Brown made headlines when she gave birth to her daughter Louise, the world’s first test tube baby. As Lesley and her husband John celebrated the arrival of the child they thought they would never have, scientist Professor Robert Edwards celebrated the success of a scientific breakthrough […]

2008 Winner Olympic Team GB As the 311 men and women of Team GB boarded the plane bound for the Beijing Olympics, they carried the hopes of the British public with them. And for two weeks in August, the nation was gripped with excitement as the team became heroes, winning 19 gold medals. They returned […]

2009 Winner Jake Peach After a month in a coma and having to learn to walk again, 12-year-oldJake Peach is determined to help other young cancer patients. Jake was diagnosed with leukaemia onMothers’ Day in 2008. His first dose of chemotherapy sent histemperature soaring to 40 degrees and he started coughing up blood. Doctors put […]

2009 Winner Levana Hanson She lost her legs when she was a baby because of meningitis but Levana has never let that hold her back. In her eight years she has endured more than 40 operations and learned to walk on prosthetic legs – and swim. Levana faces every challenge with a smile and tells […]