NOW, all the awards are special, but sometimes there are stories that leave many in the audience overwhelmed with emotion.

Hearing about the actions of his year's Courage Award winners – the rescuers of little Ayda – did just that, moving some to tears.

In April, three-year-old Ayda Kenny wandered from her home in Waterside Village, and following an area wide search for the toddler, PC Nathan Beavin spotted Ayda face down in a lake and alerted other officers.

He climbed in the lake and got stuck when trying to get her out. Constable Ian Hide took over the rescue.

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Alongside fellow officers Constable Martyn Hayes, Constable Ben Phillips, Constable Adam Rigby and Constable Bethan Roberts the team performed CPR until an off duty respiratory nurse Janet Grace, who was visiting her sister nearby, joined in compressions.

Their actions saved Ayda’s life, and after a stay in hospital where her future was unclear, remarkably, she is OK.

This incredible story has led to the officers and Janet to winning the Courage Award.

Afterwards, PC Rigby said: "Even to be here with Ayda today is a win, we feel so lucky to have had a good outcome because we weren't sure when we were there it would be."

Janet added: "We didn't think she was going to survive but it's a miracle that she is here. It just worked out completely well we were all in the right place at the time to help Ayda that day and I'm so glad we were."

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PC Hide said: "As much as we have a plan you try your best but roll with the punches on a job but if I never get that much luck again I'll take it for the luck we had that day helping Ayda and to have this outcome.

"We are proud to accept this award but it was a group effort with not just us and Janet that day but NWAS and the air ambulance who all worked together in coordination to try and ensure a good outcome for Ayda and thankfully that's what happened."

PC Hayes added: "I've been in the job for 18 years and this is the first and hopefully the last time I'll ever be in the situation I was that day.

"Our job by and large is to fight crime but ultimately we help communities in whatever way we can. We don't always have good outcomes but it goes to show that by working together great things really can be achieved by emergency services and the public."