TWO sisters who helped save the life of a man lying on a railway track have received Good Citizen Awards.

The honour is the latest received by Tamie and Charlene Kellard, pupils at Pershore High School, for their action two years ago.

The sisters, who are St John Ambulance cadets, helped the elderly man, who had fallen on the track at Pershore railway station.

"It took a lot of presence of mind to do what they did," said Sgt John Dickinson, who presented the girls with a Good Citizen Award yesterday at West Mercia police headquarters, Hindlip Hall, Worcester.

The sisters hauled the man from the tracks minutes before a train was due at the station.

"We didn't realise the danger until much later," said 16-year-old Tamie. "It took ages for it to sink in.

"This award means just as much as all the others we have received," she added

Tamie and 14-year-old Charlene have since been recognised by the Royal Humane Society and received the St John Ambulance Life Saving Bronze Award.

Tamie told the awards ceremony that she and Charlene pulled the man from the tracks, cleared his airways and put him into the recovery position before carrying on with a planned shopping trip.

"I'm chuffed to bits and very proud of them," said their mother Pauline Evans.

Another Pershore High School pupil was honoured at the ceremony yesterday.

Duane Whitehouse, who is 13, has raised money for the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital's children's ward. His charitable efforts followed surgery for Perthes disease, a potentially crippling hip condition.

He raised £500 by putting on a keyboard performance at the Pinvin Royal British Legion.

"The hospital helped me to have a decent walking life in the future," said Duane.

"I thought it was my duty to repay them with as much as I could do."

Duane underwent extensive surgery to lengthen his femur to enable him to walk.