Pride of Britain Awards

2015 Winner Teddy Houlston Told their unborn son would die within days of birth, they decided to donate his organs – making Teddy the youngest ever organ donor. When Jess was just 12 weeks pregnant with twin boys, she was given some devastating news.  One of them was fatally ill with anencephaly – a rare […]

2015 Winner Joanne and Dan Thompson Joanne and Dan Thompson, who have won a special recognition award for achieving a change in the law (for all new nursery nurses and pre-school staff to undertake paediatric first aid training), after their daughter Millie died when she choked on mashed potato at nursery The awful day they […]

2015 Winner Alice Burke The moment that turned ordinary mum Alice Burke into a crime crusader came as she walked home after an evening at bingo. “I was mugged and they took my handbag,” she recalls. “I vowed from that moment on that I’d do everything I possibly could – that people wouldn’t have to […]

2015 Winner Joshua Williamson Joshua Williamson feared his father Tommy was dead when he found him slumped on his bedroom floor. His heart had stopped. The 11-year-old could easily have panicked but instead he showed the clear-headed thinking that one would expect from an experienced medic. “It was terrifying, I didn’t know if he was […]

2015 Winner Fred and Vivienne Morgan Appalled by the story of a schoolgirl who committed suicide, retired couple Fred and Vivienne Morgan converted their own home into a school for bullied youngsters Fred and Vivian have won in the special recognition category of the Pride of Britain Awards. They opened up their home and turned […]

2015 Winner Dee Patel Dee Patel has won an award in the Pride of Britain outstanding bravery category after he used his van to push an unconscious driver on the M25 motorway to safety Deliveryman Dee Patel had loaded up his van and set off on a routine job when he was faced with a […]