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A night to remember!
Reporter: BEATRIZ AYALA, HELEN KORN and ANDREW RUDKIN
Date published: 12 December 2011
Photo: Anthony Miller and Simon Turner
WINNERS ALL . . . the 11 category winners proudly show off their trophies at the finale of a memorable Pride in Oldham Awards 2011
FROM young carers to road safety campaigners,community volunteers to lifesavers, Oldham’s unsung heroes came together on Friday to celebrate outstanding achievement.
Glitz and glamour filled the evening as the great and the good donned their smartest attire and joined over 400 people at the Queen Elizabeth Hall for the dazzling tenth anniversary awards.
Launched in 2002 by the Oldham Evening Chronicle after the riots which blackened the name of the borough the previous year, the annual awards caught the imagination of the public — and continue to do so.
From just four categories, the ceremony has grown to 11 – Schools, Education Worker, Business, Sports Admin-istration, Sports Achieve-ment, Professional, Health Worker, Groups, Voluntary and Special Achievement — and a Readers’ Choice category.
And 33 finalists specially chosen by independent judges (and Chronicle readers in the case of the readers’ choice award) were invited to the Os
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