| Top Award for 7/7 Rescue Hero |
 A local hero of the 7/7 tube bombings was in London recently to receive one of the UK’s highest civil bravery honours by Royal approval.Lee Hunt, 36, of Bedmond Road, Pimlico, was presented with a Royal Humane bronze medal for his part in the fight to save lives in the aftermath of the 2005 terror bomb on a London Underground tube near London’s Edgware Road station.
The award was presented to him, alongside a silver medal presented to 28-year-old Adrian Heili, from London, for the life and death struggle they fought together in the darkness and carnage that followed the bombing.
They saved the life of Upminster man, 26-year-old Daniel Biddle and then went on to help another 16 survivors of the blast.
Thanks to their efforts Mr Biddle, of Upminster, Essex, who lost both legs, his left eye and his spleen in the blast, and spent five weeks in a coma and a year in hospital, survived.
The awards, which were announced last year, were personally approved by Princess Alexandra, who is the Royal Humane Society’s president. |
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