Pride of Britain ITV Fundraiser Award 2016 Allen Hart
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Pride of Britain awards 2016. John Mitchell I'll be presenting this, the Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Fundraiser Award for 2016, but who to? Find out soon. Well, Mitchell's here now and there's vicious rumours that you were allowed out of the office today? Yes. I was given an important and I have to say a very difficult task. Along with a few familiar faces it was our job to pick this year's winner of the Daily Mail Pride of Britain Fundraiser Award from our four regional finalists. And after much deliberation the person we chose was Allan Hart from Leeds. He'll now go on to represent us at the National Awards Ceremony in London. The gas engineer lost his three year old daughter to a rare form of cancer nine years ago. Since then he's raised nearly 100,000 pounds for a children's cancer charity to help others in similar situations. He's set up a free service and boiler installation programme and now over 3,000 people in the industry have joined his campaign. And this is what our Christine and Emmadale's John Middleton have to say about him. There was something very, very moving about his story. He was very emotional when he talked about his reasons for doing it. But I think the fact that he channelled that grief, and just thought, "Well, what can I do? Well, I can do my job, but I can do it for nothing." And how many people would do that? And not only that, he's got so many people doing the same thing- Exactly. And raising so much money, it's fantastic. Exactly. I mean it was a very, very difficult to choose anyone out of there. It would have been good if we could have said everyone here could go forward. Yeah. But of course our invidious job is to pick one. And earlier on today, I got to be the very humble man himself to present him with the award. And here he is. Allan Hart, come here, come here. Yes, here he is. Great to meet you. I've heard so much about you. And I'm here to tell you today that you've won the Daily Mirror Pride of Britain Fundraiser Award for 2016. How does that make you feel? Amazing. Good. Here you are. It's yours. There you are. That means that you go down to London in a few weeks time to represent our region. Right. So what do you think? Very humble man, Jim, wasn't he? Yes, he was indeed, absolutely. Okay, finally tonight-
