The Daily Post
RUTHIN, Wales — Two Welsh Ambulance Service paramedics have been honoured at a national awards ceremony in the House of Lords.
Mark Timmins, from Ruthin, who dived into the raging River Dee to rescue a drowning man was named paramedic of the year while Tony Stephens, from Rhyl, an RAF reserve corporal, took the military award after braving Taliban gunfire to rescue two soldiers in Afghanistan.
Both were at the glittering annual Ambulance Services Institute ceremony at the Palace of Westminster to receive their prestigious awards from Baroness Browning of Whimple.
Mark, who is based in Corwen, said: “I don’t really think I did anything different to what any of my colleagues would have done but it was a lovely ceremony and it was great that there were so many of us there from Wales.”
Tony, 37, is a Rhyl-based paramedic when he is not in war torn regions.
He added: “You have got a job to do and you just do your job. You don’t have time to think, you just up and do it.”
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