Pride of Britain Awards

2007 Winner JK Rowling Twelve years ago, a woman sitting in an Edinburgh coffee shop could be seen scribbling in a notebook, creating the life of schoolboy wizard Harry Potter.  Back then, Joanne Kathleen Rowling was a single parent living on benefits. But now she is one of the most popular modern-day authors and her […]

2007 Winner Lewis Hamilton Racing driver Lewis Hamilton shot to fame this year after a spectacular run of podium finishes in Formula One. The 22-year-old rookie from Stevenage in Hertfordshire won an army of fans after finishing first, second or third in every one of his initial nine races. With his family hailing from Grenada, […]

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 […]