2003 WINNERS ANNOUNCED

Published: 31/10/2003

Yorkshire Unsung Hero Award
Winner: Bill Exley from Holmfirth, Huddersfield.
Bill Exley will be present on the night.
Presenter: Kevin Rodgers, community relations manager (Northern Region), npower. Award Sponsor: npower
Since 1991 Bill has help more than raise £800,000 for Huddersfield’s Royal Infirmary for the breast cancer unit. He did this after is wife died of cancer 12 years ago and he realised that the facilities at the hospital were very poor and thought that things needed to be improved. In the first year Bill hoped to raise £6,000 for equipment for breast cancer treatment but he raised £25,000. A few years later the figure was up at £300,000 and they formed a registered charity. They raised another £350,000 and this went towards a new specialised breast clinic at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. The clinic is fittingly called The Bill Exley Breast Unit. Bill and his friend Ron are just Trustees now but they make sure that the money is spent on the up to date equipment.

Yorkshire Awards Special Award
Winner: Mike Tomlinson (Jane Tomlinson’s husband)
Mike Tomlinson will be present on the night.
Presenter: Christine Talbot (YTV Calendar presenter)
Award Sponsor: Yorkshire Awards Committee

Yorkshire Awards Special Award
Winner: ‘The Calendar Girls’, Rylstone Women’s Institute, nr. Skipton.
Lynda Logan & Christine Clancy will be present on the night.
Presenter: Duncan Wood (YTV Calendar presenter)
Award Sponsor: Yorkshire Awards Committee

Yorkshire Employment Creation Award.
Winner: Park Plaza Leeds
Receiving the Award: Ivar van Diepen, general manager, Park Plaza Leeds
Presenter: Richard Taylor, branch director, Aon Limited, Leeds
Award Sponsor: Aon Limited

Yorkshire Sporting Achievement Award
Winner: Michael Vaughan, England cricket captain.
Michael Vaughan is currently on tour in Bangladesh.
Award Sponsor: Yorkshire Post

Yorkshire Arts and Entertainment Personality Award
Winner: Bill Maynard
Bill Maynard will be present on the night.
Presenter: David Croft, managing director, YTV
Sponsor: YTV

Yorkshire Lifetime Achievement Award
Winner: Dr Fanny Waterman CBE
Fanny Waterman will be present on the night.
Presenter: Keith Madeley, chairman of the Yorkshire Society.
Sponsor: The Yorkshire Society

Yorkshire Awards Woman of the Year
Winner: Nell McAndrew
Nell McAndrew will be present on the night
Presenter: Geoff Greer, chief operating officer, Yorkshire Bank.
Award Sponsor: Yorkshire Bank

Yorkshire Awards Man of the Year
All will be revealed on the night via satellite link