A guest on the Antiques Roadshow was left amazed at the value of a medal awarded to her uncle after a North East mining disaster.
The woman appeared on Sunday night's episode of the popular BBC programme, which was the second of two episodes to take place at Woodhorn Museum near Ashington. She brought a George Cross that belonged to her uncle, John Hutchinson, with the medal being the highest award of bravery for an action not in the face of the enemy.
Mr Hutchinson, a miner at the Louisa Colliery near Stanley, got the award for gallantry for saving five men in a mining disaster in August 1947. He had just finished a shift when a buzzer went off to notify of an accident below, with Mr Hutchinson one of the rescuers who managed to get five men out alive.
