THE nominees for the Haydock Park Emergency Service Award are:

Alex Kean

Off duty police officer Alex saved the life of a seriously injured pedestrian on the East Lancs Road during a snow storm.

Rugby player Alex Kean, 23 at the time, was driving back from a Peter Andre concert in Liverpool with his wife Kellie when he spotted the 57-year-old victim slumped on the dual carriageway.

He carried the man – who had a compound fracture of his right leg and was suffering from hypothermia – to safety before wrapping him in his jacket.

The police constable, an officer for three years, then lay beside him to provide body heat.

Without Alex’s heroic efforts, which unfolded shortly before midnight on a Friday, it is believed the man would have frozen to death.

 

 

Bill Houghton

Bill Houghton has been a member of St John Ambulance Merseyside, St Helens division, for the past 15 years.He joined the organisation as a first aider back in 1998 after serving for six years with the British Red Cross.

He then became divisional superintendent of the St Helens division 10 years ago, where he now leads the division with a fantastic team of volunteers around him.

He gives up approximately 1,200 hours each year, not only in the local area but also at events such as the Grand National and the TT road races in the Isle of Man.

He has treated vast number of patients and saved lives.

 

 

Leanne Davies

A great-grandfather described Leanne Davies as an ‘angel’ after she saved his life when he suffered a heart attack while waiting for a bus.

Peter Prescott, 79, was standing at a bus stop on New Street in Sutton when he was taken ill.

His saviour was Leanne, who had been driving past to take her young son to the doctors for a jab.

Peter said: “There was this blackness, then I was gone. Next thing I recall Leanne was shouting and speaking to me, then I came round.”

Mum-of-two Leanne has been a nurse for 14 years at St Helens and Whiston hospitals.