A County Durham veteran put his own safety at risk to guide vulnerable people out of war-torn Ukraine.
Mental health coach and ex-RAF serviceman Rob Campbell, 45, spent a week running perilous solo missions bringing families, orphans and elderly and disabled people to safety in Medyka, on the Polish border.
Flying out to Poland on March 20, Rob made daily runs across the border, helping a total of 28 people, including 21 children and several people in wheelchairs, to safety. Each morning he would call his partner, Kate Griffin, waiting anxiously for news back home in Consett with her three children, before "going dark" as he shut off all telephone communication to avoid detection by Russian forces.
