Pride of Britain Awards

2013 Winner Martha Payne Fed up with dull school dinners, Martha Payne decided to showcase them in a daily blog – with astonishing results. The budding writer was just ten when she launched Never Seconds in April 2012, posting pictures of her canteen lunches with a critique of each meal. Much to her surprise, the […]

2013 Winner Jean Bishop At the age of 91, you’d excuse Jean for slowing down a bit.  But there’s just no stopping this fundraising legend known universally as “The Bee Lady”. Dressed in her eye-catching bee outfit, she’s out come rain or shine to collect loose change in a tin for good causes. It’s one […]

2013 Winner The Hillsborough Families, presented to campaigner Margaret Aspinall The families of the 96 football supporters killed at Hillsborough already had to cope with the loss of their sons and daughters.  But their grief was compounded in the most painful way imaginable as members of the establishment closed ranks in a bid to smear […]

2013 Winner Daniel Black When Daniel Black read about a disabled boy who needed to raise thousands of pounds for treatment to help him walk, he did not hesitate to donate £22,000. But what makes his act of kindness truly awe-inspiring is that is was money had raised to help himself walk again after he […]

2013 Winner Bailie Kershaw Bailie Kershaw was plunged into a terrifying life-or-death situation when his dad suffered a massive heart attack and collapsed in front of him. The 12-year-old was alone at home with his father because his mum Maureen, 48, was working late and his brothers and sisters were out. So it was up […]

2013 Winner Lance Corporal Matthew Wilson When Matthew Wilson was shot in the head by a Taliban sniper, he simply picked himself up and carried on fighting to save his comrades. All our forces who have faced danger in Afghanistan deserve to be called heroes.  But Matthew’s actions that day in autumn 2011 went way […]