Award For 11-Year-Old Tsunami Heroine
10th Sep 2005, 01:19 GMT
A schoolgirl credited with saving dozens of people from the Boxing Day tsunami thanks to a school geography lesson has received a special award.Tilly Smith, 11, from Oxshott, Surrey, was on holiday with her family in Phuket, Thailand, when the devastating wave hit.
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