LITTLE Elouise Paul has received region-wide recognition for saving her mum’s life.

The Ellesmere Port youngster, who looked after mum Lyndsey when she collapsed with a brain haemorrhage, was named the Overall Young Person of the year in our parent company Trinity Mirror’s Your Champions Awards 2008.

She was handed her award at a ceremony attended by the Pioneer and our sister newspapers across Cheshire, North Wales and Wirral at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Chester on Friday.

Elouise, who lives in Milton Road with mum, dad Andrew and two- year-old sister Amelia, was just four when she cared for her mum after she collapsed on April 5 last year.

She put a pillow under her mum’s head, got her little sister ready for bed, and stayed with her mum all night.

Mrs Paul was found the next morning and taken to the Countess of Chester Hospital.

The haemorrhage was diagnosed after a scan and she was transferred to Walton Hospital in Liverpool where she had an operation to insert platinum coils in her brain to stem it.

Mrs Paul, 28, was told by doctors by propping her head up and then lying her flat in bed Elouise had unwittingly stemmed the internal bleeding.

Elouise had already been named the Pioneer’s own Young Person of the Year, and her mum said it was wonderful she then went on to beat all the other youngsters from across the region to become the overall winner in her category.

The other Pioneer -only winners, who each got a certificate and attended the ceremony, were:

Ellesmere Port Panthers Under 13s, named in the Sport category.

In their first season together, they stormed to the Northern National League title without losing a match and finished fourth in the English National Basketball League.

Rita Warrington was our Person of the Year after working unpaid for the good of this borough for the past 15 years after her children left the home.

The 71-year-old Ellesmere Port resident puts in an average of 40-50 hours of service a week.

Ellesmere Port and Neston Community Transport were the best local team, having given lifts to 40,000 elderly, infirm and disabled people across the borough, taking them out and about, to hospital and doctors’ appointments, and being a lifeline to people living in rural areas.

Whitby High was our top school, after raising more than £13,000 for charity over the past year.