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Bushell Celebrates Netting Two Awards 
Shropshire Star Thursday 6th December 2007 
One of Shropshire's leading disabled athletes has won £1,500 from the Nationwide Disability Sports Events Awards 2007. Mickey Bushell, the winner of the 2006 Mini London Wheelchair Marathon, picked up the National Sports Person prize as well as the west Midlands Regional award at last night's ceremony at Old Trafford in Manchester.  Bushell now holds a string of titles, including champion in the 100m and 200m Nationals, and has broken numerous national records.  He represented Great Britain at the senior IPC World Championships as the youngest wheelchair athlete in the squad.  Mickey is ranked first in the 100m for Great Britain and 18th in 
the world.  Last night's awards recognised the achievements of athletes and volunteers, with rewards totalling £22,300 to help support the ongoing development of disability sports talent.

BBC Website Thursday 6th December 2007
Wheelchair athlete Mickey Bushell won the national sportsperson prize as well as the West Midlands regional award.  In 2007 he recovered from illness to win the T53 100 and 200m events at the DSE British Open in Manchester and was also the under-20 champion over 100, 200, 400 and 1500m.  In addition, the 17-year-old from Telford set a number of personal bests on the road.  The £1,500 prize money (£500 for the regional and £1,000 for the national prize) will help fund his travel costs and allow him to train more for the future. 

Disability Sport Events Website Thursday 6th December 2007 By Sarah Marl 
Disability Sport Events (DSE), in association with Nationwide Building Society, today announces the winners of this year’s Sports Awards. The awards ceremony, which took place at Manchester United FC on 5 December 2007, recognised the achievements of athletes and volunteers with rewards totalling £22,300 to help support the ongoing development of disability sports talent. The event was supported by First Transpennine Express and Manchester United FC.  Mickey Bushell, Telford wins £1500 Seventeen- year- old Mickey Bushell from Telford will pick up the National Sports Person prize as well as the West Midlands Regional Award. In 2006, he won the Adidas Mini London Wheelchair Marathon.  He now holds a string of titles including champion in the 100m and 200m nationals, and has broken numerous national records.  He represented Great Britain at the Senior IPC World Championships as the youngest wheelchair athlete in the squad.  Mickey is ranked first in the 100m for Great Britain and eighteenth in the world.  The £1,500 prize money (£500 for regional and £1,000 for national prize) will help fund his travel costs and therefore allow him to train more for the future.

Disabled athletes in chair race run
By The Shropshire Star Friday 21st September 2007
Dame Tanni Grey Thompson, was being joined by a 17-year-old paralympian hopeful from Shropshire today during a test run for the world’s fastest wheelchair race, GEZE Tunnel 2k International. Paralympic athlete Dame Tanni and Mickey Bushell, from Telford, will reach speeds approaching 50mph as they try out the challenging GEZE Tunnel 2K International course through the Tyne Tunnel Wallsend ahead of the actual race due to take place on September 28. The test run is essential to enable Tyne Tunnel operations staff and film crews to plan for the event and in particular for the speeds that the athletes reach during the race. The record for the downhill stretch of the challenging course currently stands at a blistering 47mph! Dame Tanni and Mickey will be just two of a 26 strong elite field. Mickey is looking forward to the challenge the event presents. “I am the youngest ever male to take part and can’t wait to compete. I love the event and would one day love to win it.” 

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Mickey Bushell Receives the EFDS Young Achievers Award By Tom McCook
Birchfield Harriers 8th April  2007 

After being short listed for the last two years, Mickey Bushell made it third lucky when he was named the winner of the English Federation Disability Sports Young Male Achiever Award at the Npower Disability Sport Awards Ceremony Evening at Villa Park in Birmingham.  As the sixteen year old Birchfield Harrier is recuperating at home from an operation last month to remove his right kidney at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital, the award was received on his behalf by his coach Paul Hunt.  Mickey was also nominated for the Npower Male Sports Personality which was won by the blind footballer Ajmal Ahmed.  

Deborah Brennan who was crowned Paralympian Champion in Sydney in 2000 was married last Saturday to Blake Johnson who is currently serving with the Army in Germany.  After Deborah has competed in the Women’s wheelchair race at the London Marathon on 22 April, the newly weds will be based in Germany from where Deborah intends to participate in the European Wheelchair racing circuit.