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Celebration of Your Champions (with Champion of Champions video)

THE 22nd annual ScottishPower/Trinity Mirror Your Champions Awards toasted heroes from across the region on Friday.Read

Video: Highlights from the Your Champions 2009 awards

Watch highlights from the 2009 Your Champions awards held at the Crowne Plaza in Chester.Read

Carol Highton, loan shark activist, named Trinity Mirror-ScottishPower Champion of Champions (with video)

A RUNCORN mum shed a tear when she was named Trinity Mirror Cheshire Champion of Champions for her campaign to stop loan sharks and help their victims.Read

A RUNCORN youngster picked up our Young Person award after she scooped a hat-trick of gold medals at the World Transplant Games in Australia.

Jade Carr, 16, also secured a silver and a bronze while competing for the UK team.Read

A GROUP which sends packages of essential items to troops on the Afghan front line took the overall prize in the team category.

Jim Ross and his associates from the Hale and Halton branches of the Royal British Legion run the Comfort Parcels for Troops campaign, which has the Weekly News’ official backing.Read

KAREN Tonge was Weekly News winner in the sport category.

Karen and her husband Ken moved to Runcorn in 1971 to take charge of the former Castlefields Youth Centre as youth leaders. Since then, she has championed sport in general and table tennis in particular as a highly-respected coach, official and administrator.Read

THE Weekly News winner of the school category is St Basil’s Catholic Primary, Widnes, which beat 600 other UK schools in a national healthy living competition.

Some of the pupils were invited to No.10 Downing Street to receive their award from Prime Minister Gordon Brown.Read

Your Champions: Stars of the show

FIVE new names have been added to the Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News’ roll of honour as our final nominees go through to the finals of the Trinity Mirror-Scottish Power Your Champions awards.Read

Your Champions: Champion Young Person - Jade Carr

A MULTI-TALENTED Runcorn youngster is our Young Person nominee for the Your Champions Awards after she scooped a hat-trick of gold medals at the World Transplant Games in Australia.Read

Your Champions: Champion Person - Carol Highton

CAROL Highton, the mother of a 22-year-old Runcorn man who killed himself while faced with crippling debts to a loan shark is the Weekly News nominee for the Your Champions person category.Read

Your Champions: Champion School - St Basil’s Primary School, Widnes

THE Weekly News nomination for the school category is St Basil’s Catholic Primary, Widnes, which beat 600 other UK schools in a national healthy living competition. Read

Your Champions: Sporting Champion - Karen Tonge

KAREN Tonge, whose services to sport in the area pre-dates the borough of Halton, is our nominee for the sport category.Read

Nominations deadline passes in Your Champions

THE nominations deadline for Your Champions has now passed.Read

World Transplant Games star Jade Carr receives Your Champions nomination

A MULTI-TALENTED Runcorn youngster has received a nomination for the Your Champions Awards after scooping a hat-trick of gold medals at the World Transplant Games.Read

Widnes Vikings chairman Steve O’Connor nominated for Your Champions Awards

THE chairman of Northern Rail Cup-winning heroes Widnes Vikings has been nominated for the Your Champions Award 2009.Read

Your Champions: Ken and Eileen Cannon nominated for Team of the Year

THE crusading parents of a promising film student whose life was cut short by cancer could be in line for the Your Champions 2009 Team award.Read

Your Champions: Paul Gavin of Widnes nominated for Champion of the Year

AN INSPIRATIONAL cancer patient who fought through the pain barrier on his road to recovery – and raised £18,000 for charity in the process – has been entered for the Your Champions Person category.Read

Your Champions: Halton Netball Club nominated for Sporting Category

A LONG-ESTABLISHED Halton sports club is in the running for the Your Champions Sport category.Read

Your Champions: The Hearts Group nominated for Team of the Year

THE Hearts group nominated in the team category of Your Champions 2009 has been helping young people enter the world of performing arts and dance for the last 10 years.Read

Your Champions: Sandra Squires nominated for Champion of the Year

WONDERMUM Sandra Squires has been nominated as a contender in the Your Champions awards in recognition of her tireless work as a foster carer.Read

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