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Gill Hicks, who lost both her legs in the 7 July London bombings, was today honoured at Buckingham Palace.
She has campaigned tirelessly for peace since the attack and received an MBE from Prince Charles for services to charity. Today she said the Prince told her she was “setting a great
example”.
Ms Hicks, 40, who was the last person to be pulled alive from the Russell Square Tube carriage, said: “My life is very much divided
in two, life prior (to the bombings) and life post,” she said.
“I totally focus on what I can do and not on what I can't change.” Since 2005 she has founded the charity MAD for Peace, worked as an ambassador for Peace Direct, supported the Leonard Cheshire Disability charity, and completed a walk from Leeds to London.
Olympic 400-metre gold medallist Christine Ohuruogu was also presented with an MBE today,
in her case for services to sport. Ohuruogu, who returned from a 12-month ban in 2007 after missing three out-of-competition drugs tests, said her motivation was the “will to succeed”.
“I know that this is what I'm good at, it's my gift and my talent so I want to do as well as I can. “I don't want to be 50 and say I could have done this but I didn't.”
Reader views (4)
@ Cuddly Duddly, Gill Hicks is Australian.
- Bd, London UK
So missing three drug tests and serving a ban gets you an MBE?
What a disgrace,
- Jj, london
How marvellous to see the report about the heroine, Gill Hicks being rightly honoured. An ENGLISH woman in the finest of moulds and a superb example to many of her fellow English countrymen and women. More power to her.
- Cuddly Duddly, Cuffley, UK
What has she got on her head?What a state.
- Steve, London
