Pride of Britain Awards

2010 Winner Cameron Small DESPITE suffering from a rare blood disorder which has seen him spend too much of his young life in hospital, aged just 12 Cameron Small has raised almost £100,000 for sick children and helped spearhead an appeal to raise £20 million for a new children’s hospital. He has endured over 900 […]

2010 Winner Kelsey Trevett Despite losing his sight to cancer, eight-year-old Kelsey Trevett, eight, has refused to let blindness restrict him, becoming a champion for the rights of other disabled youngsters. Diagnosed with eye cancer at just 16-weeks-old, a six-month course of chemotherapy combined with laser treatment and surgery reduced the tumours but his left […]

2010 Winner Simon Cording Simon Cording was one of the British International Search and Rescue Team who saved a toddler buried under tonnes of rubble after the Haiti earthquake in January. Mia Charlet, then two, had been entombed in the ruins of her nursery for three days before the firemen arrived. The moment Simon plucked […]

2010 Winner PC David Rathband PC David Rathband won widespread admiration for his dignity after he was shot in the face by fugitive murderer Raoul Moat as he sat in his marked patrol car four months ago. But PC Rathband, 42, refuses to let Moat destroy his life, is learning to live without his sight […]

2010 Winner Judy Ledger Losing three premature babies at birth would be too much for many women to bear. But Judy Ledger turned such unimaginable heartache into a misson to save thousands of mothers and their newborns from the same fate. Since founding the charity Baby Lifeline nearly 30 years ago, she has raised over […]

2010 Winner James Pout When a fellow passenger jumped into the path of an underground train as it thundered into the station, James Pout risked his own life to haul the man to safety. The freelance writer was among a group of around 40 people waiting for the last Tube one night at London’s Notting […]