Pride of Britain Awards

2002 Winner Steve Wardle Before Steve Wardle moved on to the Grange Park housing estate, many of its residents were too scared to leave their homes at night. The area was a crime blackspot where more than a third of houses were boarded up as families left before they became victims of street violence or […]

2002 Winner Sophie Render Sophie and Catherine Render have a bond that goes far deeper than most mothers and daughters. For the past three years Catherine has been with daughter Sophie every step of the way as she has battled leukaemia. Now Sophie, six, is repaying the favour by being a tower of strength for […]

2002 Winner Sophie Knight The floods which hit Britain in December 2000 cost the nation tens of millions of pounds in lost business and damage to homes. But the freak weather conditions almost cost four-year-old Rosie Knight her life. While out walking with her mother and older sister Sophie, she mistook the swollen River Avon […]

2002 Winner Mark Glover Just 15 years ago a fur coat was as much a status symbol as a Ferrari or a Rolex, but today most people would not be seen dead in anything dead. And it is all down to the commitment of one man. Mark Glover had endured bankruptcy and threats to his […]

2002 Winner Sandra Walton In 1997, Pineapple Junior Infants School was a byword for failure. Its pupils were under-achieving, attendance was low and morale among staff was plummeting. The year before, Standard Attainment Test (SAT) results showed it was the third worst-performing school in the country. Today, all that has changed thanks to the inspirational […]

2002 Winner Emma Honey Jill McGowan knows better than most the misery caused by asthma. Not only is she a sufferer herself, but as a nurse she has spent 27 years treating people with breathing difficulties. By 1996 she had become used to seeing sufferers relying on inhalers and witnessed their ever-growing reliance on medication. […]