(Unsung) Hero of
It is extremely gratifying, in these days of doom and gloom, and folk moaning about our licence holders and often treating them with - shall we say - far less than the respect they deserve, to sit back and take inventory of the past year’s Un- sung Heroes we featured in PHTM. Once again, it is both difficult and unfair to place our candi- dates in any sort of ‘pecking order’ or league table as to who was the most heroic, or who did the best for the most, and so on. Point is, there are so many to mention, we wouldn’t have space to even list them all.
Let’s start with sheer thoughtfulness and giving a damn, such as with the group of Great Yarmouth businesses who helped stranded visitors (August edition); or the Grimsby cabbie who saved the wedding of a disabled couple by providing transport (also August). How about the Kendal driver (July) who was awarded for aiding an assault victim, and the driver (February) who rescued a toddler who was wandering the streets in the early hours. Don’t forget the Gloucester driver (August) who helped an injured lad on his way home from school.
When it comes to dramatic immediate rescue situations, the list is amazing: the Liverpool/Sefton rescue of a
heart attack victim (January); in February the Walsall driver who also saved a heart attack victim, this time a pensioner, and the Ip- swich driver who saved a crash victim. March’s heroes included a Clacton driver who was subsequently assisted when he got in danger, and a Bath hero who chased an armed robber from a taxi office.
Rescues of all sorts abounded: the Sheffield driver in our April issue who helped a pensioner; the June report of a Gloucester driver rescuing a couple from a knife robbery; also in June the driver from Bury who saved a woman from a rape ordeal; then in July the Cardiff driver who rescued a pensioner, and in October the two Liskeard drivers who saved a couple from carbon monox- ide poisoning.
Drama “back at the base” (of whatever company) didn’t go un- recognised either: how about the CCTV base operator in our Sep- tember issue who helped to stop a sexual assault, and our entire “ScamSavers” feature in this month’s paper, which focuses on op- erators and their drivers who, by being alert to such things, have prevented con artists from stealing thousands of pounds from in- nocent pensioners.
We chose as our runner-up the St Albans driver (No- vember issue) who turned down a kidney transplant because he believed his twin brother’s need for the kidney was more desperate than his own. And of course now his own need is equally desperate.
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Cabbies resu mouth-to-m
Ipswich hero
Driver rescue wandering st Driver alerted
Hero chased ar Bath taxi office
WINN Oldham driver WINNE
London cabbie’s saves sick baby
Kendal driver rec aiding assault vic
Grimsby cabbie sa for disabled coupl
CCTV base operato sexual assault
St. Albans driver tu kidney for twin bort
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