UNSUNG HEROES


LIFE-SAVING LIVERPOOL AND SEFTON HEROES HONOURED FOR RESCUE


A dad who nearly died when


his A heart


stopped while he was refereeing a school football match was reunited with the two quick-thinking men who saved his life. Billy Quayle, 55, was on the pitch at St Michael’s School in West Derby when he went


arrest,


HEROIC GAINSBOROUGH DRIVER TACKLES FLAMES


Gainsborough driver


‘quick-thinking’ taxi


has been


into cardiac leaving him


unconscious for more than 20 minutes. But spectators Pete Burcher arid Tom Dia- mond performed life- saving resuscitation and he survived. Lord Mayor Cllr Sharon Sullivan pre- sented Mr Burcher, 39, and Mr Diamond, 28, with a “recognition award” for their heroic efforts at Liverpool Town Hall. Delta taxi driver Mr


Picture courtesy of the Liverpool Echo


Reunited: From left, Tom Diamond, Billy Quayle and Pete Burcher


Diamond had only completed a first aid course two weeks before the incident in October, but managed to instruct St Michael’s teacher Mr Burcher how to revive Mr Quayle while they waited for the ambu- lance to arrive. The three men said that


the near-fatal


scare showed the importance of having life-saving defibrillator machines at schools. Mr Quayle, a teacher at St Theresa’s pri- mary in Norris Green, told the Liverpool Echo: ”We have one at our school now, we are getting another and we are training the staff at moment.”


praised for tackling the flames from a burning car after he came across a road crash. Jamie Harding-Hub- bard was driving down Spital Hill in Gainsbor- ough in the early hours of Saturday 17th November when he was confronted with a car that had crashed into a lamp-post. Jamie, a 26-year-old driver


for Diamond


Cabs in Gainsborough, stopped his car to help a local 19-year-old woman who had just escaped from the vehi- cle - moments before it suddenly burst


into


flames. It was Jamie’s quick thinking and bravery which prevented a potentially fatal disas-


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ter occurring. “I just did what anyone else would have done,” Jamie told the Gainsborough Stan- dard. I saw a car in the middle of the road with the front end all smashed


up. I


stopped to help this young lass who had only just got out of the car. She was shaken up and had injured her shoulder. “I called an ambulance and the police, but as I was on the phone the engine caught


suddenly fire,” said


Jamie. “I got the foam extin- guisher out of my cab and managed to put the fire out before the emergency services even arrived.” “It’s lucky that I was in the right place at the right time as it could


all have been so much worse, but anyone else would have done the same.” The 19-year-old Gains- borough woman was taken to Scunthorpe General Hospital where she was treated for a broken collar bone. Diamond Cabs man- ager Julie Sanderson- Cole said: “A lot of people would have just driven past. “Jamie is just amazing, and handled the whole thing extremely well.” Dave Gilbert, from Lin- colnshire Fire and Rescue, said: We would like to praise the actions of Jamie Hard- ing-Hubbard, whose swift and thoughtful actions undoubtedly prevented the situation from becoming much, much worse.”


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