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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

Your Champions: Catriona Cameron nominated for Champion of the Year

CATRIONA Cameron from Runcorn, who this year rose to fame after scooping the title Miss Cheshire 2009, has been using her new-found high profile to promote worthy causes.Read

Salute Your Champions

THE 21ST anniversary of The ScottishPower/Trinity Mirror Cheshire Your Champions Awards “came of age” last Friday.Read

Five-star showing for Halton's champions

Community heroes honoured at eventRead

Your Champions Awards Ceremony - videos and photos

See the videos and photos from this year's Your Champions Awards Ceremony.Read

Your Champions Awards Ceremony

This year's awards ceremony will pay tribute to those who make a difference in the local community.Read

Your Champions shine at the 2007 awards ceremony

COMMUNITY stars shone in a glittering ceremony in Chester on Wednesday night. The Scottish Power/Trinity Mirror Cheshire annual Your Champions Awards yet again lived up to its billing as the most glamorous social gathering of the year as celebrities, VIPs and dignitories flocked to applaud our local heroes.Read

Your Champions shine at the 2007 awards ceremony

COMMUNITY stars shone in a glittering ceremony in Chester on Wednesday night.Read

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