Pride of Britain Awards

2003 Winner Janet Bourne Janet Bourne has been helping troubled primary school pupils for years but she loves that moment when all the hard work pays off. “You can spend months working with a child and it can be very tough,” she says. “When a child is able to go back to the classroom without […]

2003 Winner June Smith Despite being treated for cancer, June , 71, is a tower of strength.  The age of 70 is a milestone – and usually a time when most people want to put their feet up. Not June Smith. Even though she’s 71 and being treated for cancer, she’s still a tower of […]

2003 Winner Celia Hammond She was a 1960s icon, the supermodel whose face graced a thousand magazine covers.  But Celia Hammond gave it all up to try to end the suffering of stray and abandoned animals. She says: “If everybody did a bit for animal welfare, such a lot could be achieved.” Celia was working […]

2003 Winner Lloyd Scott Lloyd has spent 14 years raising £1.25million for cancer charities.  He is known to millions as the man who spent five days and eight hours completing the London Marathon for charity while wearing a 120lb deep-sea diving suit. But there is much more to Lloyd Scott. The 41-year-old has devoted the […]

2003 Winner Alex Bell Adopting a child is a huge responsibility, one that requires patience, dedication and commitment. Alex Bell has those three qualities in abundance. Not only did she take on her first child when she was single, she has since taken on a further six youngsters – and all of have Down’s syndrome. […]

2004 Winner Sir Alec Jeffreys Serial killers and rapists have been caught and convicted, the innocent freed, and families reunited – thanks to the ground-breaking work of Sir Alec Jeffreys. The 54-year-old academic is the pioneer of the revolutionary crime-fighting technology known as genetic fingerprinting. Sir Alec, Professor Of Genetics at Leicester University, says,”It is […]