A Weston College student will receive an award and a two hundred pound prize at the Grand Pier today, for his voluntary work helping people recover from drug abuse.

40 year old Nicholas Blackshaw was sent to Weston from Manchester four years ago on probation after getting over a heroin addiction funded by petty crime - but is now the driving force behind the organisation North Somerset Surf - alongside his own studies.

He's also managed to trace his estranged daughter Ashleigh - who also happens to be a student at the college.