Saints Courage Award

Cath Traynor

Grandmother-of-four Cath Traynor, 64, is nominated for the courage she has shown battling breast cancer – and the support she has shown to others.

The former adult social care worker was nominated by her next door neighbour Karen Jarvis, from Eccleston, who was battling breast cancer in 2010.

Cath was a rock to Karen during the illness but went on to find she too was suffering from the terrible disease.

Karen knows the qualities of courage needed to fight cancer and says her “inspiration” Cath has them in abundance.

Liam Burbridge

Liam Burbridge had a motorcycle accident on February 12 this year. He has subsequently had at least 13 operations and needed his left leg amputating.

But the 20-year-old’s relatives say he has ‘fought like no other’ and never moans. He is up and about on his prosthetic leg and hopes to help other amputees.

He recently became a father and plans to return to work He talks honestly and openly about how the injury has affected him and is described as ‘an inspiration to others’.

Callum Chadwick, Ethan Chisnall and Josh Jump

They say courage comes in many shapes – in the case of teenagers Callum Chadwich, Ethan Chisnall and Josh Jump, it was instinctive.

As the Star’s readers may have read, they rescued two men from a burning flat in Blackbrook.

They sprang into action after hearing a ‘horrible’ scream and seeing smoke billowing from a lower floor window after a chip pan caught fire at a home in Beacon Grove.

They rescued one man and dragged him out before, remarkably, going back inside after realising another man was still in there.