Pride of Britain Awards

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 […]

2010 Winner Kelsey Trevett Despite losing his sight to cancer, eight-year-old Kelsey Trevett, eight, has refused to let blindness restrict him, becoming a champion for the rights of other disabled youngsters. Diagnosed with eye cancer at just 16-weeks-old, a six-month course of chemotherapy combined with laser treatment and surgery reduced the tumours but his left […]

2010 Winner Simon Cording Simon Cording was one of the British International Search and Rescue Team who saved a toddler buried under tonnes of rubble after the Haiti earthquake in January. Mia Charlet, then two, had been entombed in the ruins of her nursery for three days before the firemen arrived. The moment Simon plucked […]