HERE it is again - your chance to vote for the selfless heroes who do their bit to make life a little better for the rest of us in Bradford.

This year we are, for the fifth time, running our Community Stars Awards, after three great years which saw those who were voted the cream of the crop receiving their Bradford and District Medals at a glittering ceremony at City Hall.

As in the first three years of the awards, we were delighted with the nominations that flooded in over the summer, when we asked you to nominate those who went the extra mile in a variety of categories: volunteer, community group, community champion, good neighbour, fundraiser and young active citizen.

Entries flooded in and the judging panel had some extremely difficult decisions to narrow all the wonderful nominations down to a shortlist of just three in each category.

And now we’re handing over the final decision to you, the readers of the T&A.

On each of the pages of this supplement you’ll find the shortlisted nominations, along with a few words about them and their work, taken directly from the people who know them best - those who put pen to paper to put them forward for Community Stars.

Read through the stories and decide who you think best deserves to win that individual category. We know it’s a difficult job - all our shortlisted entrants, indeed all the people who were nominated, deserve recognition.

We’d like to thank everyone who took the time and effort to nominate others, and while the winning medal can only go to an individual or group in each category, the people who are highlighted in this supplement really represent everyone out there who gives their time and energy to selflessly help others, and every one of those people are true Community Stars.

Please have your completed entry forms back to Anna Frater at the address at the bottom of each coupon by MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28.

Only one vote per category per person, please, but you can, of course, vote in as many of the different categories as you want.