England's women's national football team - dubbed The Lionesses - will be honoured with a special gong at this year’s Pride of Britain Awards alongside community heroes. The judging panel selected England’s European champions for the special award for “galvanising” the nation and providing a whole generation with “new role models”.
Carol Vorderman and Ashley Banjo will co-host the award ceremony on October 27 which will be attended by a plethora of famous faces to celebrate the inspiration winners. Also among those being recognised are three fathers, Andy Airey, 61, Mike Palmer, 57, and Tim Owen, 52, who embarked on a charity walk which raised more than £880,000 in memory of their three young daughters who each took their own lives.
The trio from Manchester, Norfolk, and Cumbria will be given a special recognition award for trekking 550 miles over 31 days. Mr Airey said: “During our walk we met very many suicide-bereaved parents, all of them said the same thing; it was only after they lost their child that they discovered that suicide was the biggest killer of under 35’s in the UK; they all asked, ‘If suicide is the biggest threat to our children’s lives, why is no one talking about it?’”
