FORMER Lancashire schoolboy Krishnan Guru-Murthy was named Media Personality of the Year at the 2014 Asian Media Awards.

The second Asian Media Awards took place at the Hilton Manchester, Deansgate, in front of journalists, actors, presenters and marketing professionals from across the UK.

The AMA Media Personality award recognises acn individual who, through their work, has been an inspiration to others in their field and maintained high standards.

Krishnan has been one of the leading journalists and presenters in his field looking to investigate and report upon a range of human rights abuses across the world.

Through his work for Channel 4 in recent years he has reported on a range of historic events.

Krishnan, who went to Queen Elizabeth Grammer School and lived in Lancashire as a child, said: “This is very nice.

“It’s the type of award you get for still being alive!”

“To be honest I was very much in the right place at the right time.

“I was set to go and study medicine when I was 18.

“But I managed to swing a job at the BBC and at the end of the work experience I was offered a job.

“I changed degree to politics and said yes to anything and everything I was told to do, and 26 years later here I am. I would just say believe you can do it.

“The key to the game is performance, confidence and being able to persuade people.”