Dickies worker of the year

Di Mayze, an entrepreneur from Nottingham, has been crowned UK Worker of the Year for 2012 in the Dickies competition sponsored by SEAT to recognise and reward excellence in the British workforce.

Mayze's company, Ippee Design, was launched in January last year when she was on maternity leave. A year on and the popular product BuggyTug is sold by some of the leading retailers. She has since launched a new product TugTrio that is a pack of three buggy straps. A delighted Mayze, said: "I am so surprised, I am just trying to take it all in. I love what I do and my products have the potential to save lives - accidents involving a buggy rolling away are so common in some countries that it is illegal not to have one."