A disabled pensioner, who had just finished taking part in a bingo game play session, has been rewarded for her role in saving a bus driver from an attack, reports the Lakeland Echo.
Kathleen Edwards, 70, has been seeking a bingo cash prize in Preston in October last year, but while she was on a bus back to Lancaster four teenage thugs got onto her bus and began to cause problems.
The driver tried to throw them off but as one attempted to rob the cash container, the other three attacked him.
Mrs Edwards, despite needing a walking stick to get around, then went to the driver's aid and pulled one of the boys off him and received bruising to her face in the process, as well as aggravating an arthritic condition in her shoulder.
She was awarded a police commendation for her bravery and her actions could have prevented the driver becoming seriously injured.
The four boys aged between 16 and 17 were arrested and charged.
Last month a man in Carlisle was allowed to continue playing bingo despite receiving an anti social behaviour order for his involvement in a police officer gaining minor injuries in a pub.
