A supermarket employee's kind and helpful attitude towards customers and the community could win him a prize.

Matthew Miller, who works at Bovingdon Co-op, has been put forward for the Watford Observer Community Heroes award by customer Sharon Keen for his caring dedication to his work and customers.

Matthew, 29, moved to the village of Bovingdon as a young teenager and works in the supermarket as an assistant manager.

Customers have praised Matthew’s high level of customer service, from carrying shopping to elderly people’s cars, packing shopping bags and taking the time to ask about people’s days at work.

Matthew said: “Being village-based I know a lot of people on a first-name basis. It's always been that I loved the shop because of the customers.”

Matthew has worked at Co-operative food for ten years, starting out as a customer team member and working his way up to the assistant-manager title he carries now.

He said: “The worst part is the size of the shop, it is hard to please everyone. I try to make up for the things you can’t give them by giving them 100 per cent.”

Besides putting his all into the community and his work, Matthew is also described as family-orientated with two children of his own.

Apart from night shifts, he spends most of his time focused around his family and tries to spend as much time as he can with his children, believing that nothing comes before family.

When he was told he won the award Matthew said: “I was shocked, and it is an honour to know someone went out of their way to nominate me.

“It is nice to know there are people out there to show the recognition. Thank you to Sharon.”

The Community Heroes Award gives people the chance to nominate individuals who deserve recognition and praise for their work in the community who will then be rewarded by Watford businesses.