Pride of Britain Awards

2018 Winner Blake Stephenson Blake was in the pool while on holiday in France with his younger sister Tilly, his mum Victoria and her husband David last year, when he spotted another child’s lifeless body at the bottom. He immediately dived down to the bottom and pulled the young French boy to the surface, dragging […]

2018 Winner Tony Davis Former British Army Staff Sergeant Tony was the first person to rush to the aid of PC Palmer, the unarmed police officer who was fatally stabbed as he attempted to stop terrorist Khalid Masood outside the Palace of Westminster. With Masood still nearby, Tony leapt over a fence and tried to […]

2018 Winner Sgt Elliott Richardson, PC Sarah Currie and PC Michael Otterson Northumbria officers Sgt Elliott Richardson and PCs Sarah Currie and Michael Otterson were on duty in Gateshead when they received a call about a man who had made threats of violence. After searching for him, they spotted him entering a pub, wearing body armour […]

2018 Winner Callum Lane-Tingle Callum Lane-Tingle from Fairfield, Stockton, has raised more than £15,000 in the 11 months since his dad Andy discovered he had terminal kidney cancer. After being told that his dad’s cancer was terminal, Callum, from Teesside, decided to make him proud by raising money for the Cancer Research charity. He has […]

2018 Winner Ivan Hollingsworth Ivan started his fundraising nine years ago after his newborn son Sebastian had life-saving surgery at the Children’s Heart Unit, at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital. Seb was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect soon after his birth in 2009 and medics decided to operate on him when he was just four months […]

2018 Winner Lynne Davis and Cheryl McDonald Lynne and Cheryl set up their Community Corner charity four years ago, which sells donated goods to raise money for worthy causes in South Tyneside. They have been dubbed “angels in the community” as they dedicate their days to making people’s lives better. The mother and daughter, with […]