Pride of Britain Awards

2017 Winner Sarah Hope Changing the lives of child amputees in Britain and around the world through a groundbreaking campaign for prosthetics and inspirational charity work. Sarah’s twin sister had just given birth to her first son, and on a sunny morning in April 2007, Sarah was taking their mother Elizabeth and two-year-old daughter Pollyanna […]

2017 Winner Dilys Price The world’s oldest female solo skydiver, raising money and awareness for her pioneering charity work with disabled children and young people. Dilys Price is not a typical 85-year-old grandmother. She might look like a retired teacher from Cardiff — which, technically, is exactly what she is — but she’s also made […]

2017 Winner Professor Lorna Dawson “Soil sleuth” has pioneered forensic techniques that have helped solve more than 100 crimes, and put some of the UK’s most notorious killers behind bars While studying in Edinburgh, Lorna Dawson was gripped by a crime that happened on her own doorstep. On a Saturday night in October 1977, she […]

2017 Winner Jake Coates Emmy and Jake Coates met when they were 11 and after two decades of highs and lows, the pair were sent one final and devastating blow. The couple met when they were 11-years-old and at just 13, Jake told his crush that she was his “lobster”. The couple later dated for […]

2017 Winner George Mathias George has raised more than £35,000 to say thank you to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital for saving his little brother’s life James Mathias was only a few days old when his parents found him limp and struggling to breathe after waking him for a night feed. James, who had been born […]

2017 Winner Suzie McCash After her mum collapsed and stopped breathing at home, Suzie’s extraordinary presence of mind saved her life Faced with a medical emergency, most people would freeze or panic, especially a child. But Suzie McCash, then just four years old, not only kept a calm head, but took vital action to save […]