Pride of Britain Awards

2008 Winner Juby Mathew It started as just an ordinary day for Juby Mathew as he drove to his friend’s house one afternoon. But during that journey he was to face his greatest fear head on, risking his life and becoming a hero as he rescued a little boy from the jaws of a vicious […]

2008 Winner Bernie Butler Heroic Bernie Butler risked his life to rescue a man from a devastating explosion after a lorry collided with a gas tanker on the M6 motorway. Lorry driver Bernie was travelling southbound when he witnessed another lorry, driven by Philip O’Dowd, career across the central reservation and crash head on into […]

2008 Winner Medical Emergency Response Team In the battlefields of Afghanistan, the specialist Medical Emergency Response Team risk their lives every day by flying missions in the hotbed of terrorist activity. Known as the MERT, they serve as Helmand Province’s combat air ambulance. Supported by a bomb disposal team, fire and rescue unit and an […]

2008 Winner Pepe Rahman Hart Pepe has been the Head Teacher of the Trinity Church of England School in Radstock since it opened three years ago when two local schools merged. As a result of her hard work and determination, Pepe, 39, has developed a revolutionary environmental programme which is being adopted in other schools. […]

2008 Winner Professor Robert Edwards Thirty years ago, Lesley Brown made headlines when she gave birth to her daughter Louise, the world’s first test tube baby. As Lesley and her husband John celebrated the arrival of the child they thought they would never have, scientist Professor Robert Edwards celebrated the success of a scientific breakthrough […]

2008 Winner Olympic Team GB As the 311 men and women of Team GB boarded the plane bound for the Beijing Olympics, they carried the hopes of the British public with them. And for two weeks in August, the nation was gripped with excitement as the team became heroes, winning 19 gold medals. They returned […]