Pride of Britain Awards

2000 Winner Gareth Evans and Balaram Rai British forces played a crucial role in the Nato campaign against the ruthless ethnic cleansing in wartorn Kosovo last year. The RAF flew hundreds of missions against the Serbian war machine, forcing Slobodan Milosevic to back down, while our soldiers helped the humanitarian effort cope with the flood […]

2000 Winner Jean Forrest Supermum Jean Forrest, 64, has always loved children – so much so that she has been “mum” to an incredible 635 youngsters over the last 37 years. Jean, from Lancing, West Sussex, has four children of her own and has also adopted two boys, who are now 20 and 19. Her […]

2000 Winner Michelle Lewis Teenagers who make a million are rare – teenagers who make a million and give it all away are rarer still. Michelle Lewis is a fundraising phenomenon who has ignored her own disability in her bid to help others. She is just 17 and can hardly walk, but has raised nearly […]

2001 Winner Lifetime Achievement – Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International When Peter Benenson opened his newspaper on his way to work one morning in late 1960, he had no idea he was about to change the world for ever. His eye was caught by a small item about two Portuguese students being sentenced to […]

2001 Winner Ellen MacArthur At the age of four, Ellen MacArthur began messing around in boats with her aunt. By the time she was eight, she could navigate her little sail boat down the local river and was showing all the signs of becoming a talented natural yachtswoman. But no-one could ever have suspected that […]

2001 Winner Tanni Grey-Thompson A whole new generation of British athletes were inspired by the extraordinary sporting feats of Tanni Grey-Thompson. And she did it all from the confines of a wheelchair. Tanni, 31, won a record-breaking four gold medals at Sydney 2000 Paralympics, beating the world’s best disabled track racers at 100, 200, 400 […]