Treating Will Smith and SAS: Who Dares Wins - The trailblazing doctor saving lives across the country from a helicopter

Manchester’s history is packed with inspiring women - the city found itself at the centre of the national campaign for equal voting rights, as Emmeline Pankhurst, now immortalised with a statue on St Peter’s Square, led the suffragette movement.

Joining Emmeline were a host of other brave Mancunian women including novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, and Middleton botanist Lydia Becker.

Fast-forward more than a century on, and you’ll find a city still full of women pushing to make the world a better place - from Dr Erinma Bell, the influential Manchester peace activist who was awarded an MBE for her work to rid Moss Side streets of gun crime, to Salfordian athlete Dame Sarah Storey, Great Britain's most successful female Paralympian.

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For International Women’s Day this year, the Manchester Evening News spoke to 35-year-old Charlotte Haldane - a trailblazing medic working across the country to save lives with the North West Air Ambulance, among a slew of other incredible feats.

Along with her work as a consultant on our region's airborne emergency service, Charlotte does paediatric retrieval - transporting sick babies and children to intensive care in Cambridge, where she lives. There, too, she supports the local air ambulance charity with her years of expertise.

The 35-year-old, whose family hails from Walkden, also holds the rank of major in the Army reserves.

Charlotte's work takes her not only up and down the country, but around the world. Yet another branch to her day job is expedition, TV and film medicine.

The doctor treats trekking teams, and stars of the screen, as they operate in far-flung corners of the globe.

Among the shoots she has provided the medical care for - Will Smith's Welcome to Earth, Expedition