Of course the stripping of Goodwin's knighthood leaves a hangover, but if it's the beginning of accountability, it's worth it

Even though I share the Scottish affection for Alex Salmond, one of my favourite quotes to emerge from the Fred Goodwin affair is from the letter of support that the SNP leader wrote to the banker on the occasion of RBS's ill-fated ABN Amro takeover: "Yours, for Scotland", he signed it, mistaking the escapade for an episode of Highlander.

There are no winners in this story, there are only degrees of loserdom – the RBS board wasn't paying attention (yet they still have their knighthoods) and the Bank of England and the Financial Services Authority were practising their "light touch" (it is business-speak for "swing").

MPs might, in an ideal world, have been wondering what the downside may be of a bank whose asset sheet was greater than the nation's GDP, but they were too busy looking for the receipt for that Kit Kat because, never mind the John Lewis list, it is fiendishly difficult to recoup your snack purchases if you don't keep records.

And what were you doing? I was just assuming everything was OK, because there was a man in charge and nobody was screaming, exactly as I do when I get on a plane. Nevertheless, this remains the responsibility of the person who, as CEO, said: "I'll take responsibility"; this doesn't mean that there's nobody who could have intervened, and it doesn't mean that the collapse of RBS is the only factor that went into the financial crisis.

It doesn't mean that now Fred's a mister our financial problems are over, or indeed in any way altered. But he was awarded the honour for services to banking, and he built a ho-hum high street bank into an institution the proportions of which we'll be paying for – if you start at the initial debt, proceed to the austerity agenda to which it contributed, thence to our current political polarisation, the fiscal contraction, the unemployment – for decades. So whether we look at this as criminal irresponsibility or a simple bad run from a flamboyant high roller, we should be able to agree that he didn't provide much of a service.

For a decision so straightforward, it has provoked a lot of dissent. The former chancellor Alistair Darling called it "tawdry". Tory MP Mark Field said it was a "sideshow", and we should concentrate on his pension. Business leaders worried about what this would do to our international reputation, what it said about our consistency, whether or not it made the peerage system look like a political plaything. To take those in order: it would be tawdry if we stripped him naked and ran him from Edinburgh to London strapped to the inside of a cartwheel, but to withdraw an honour because you realise you'd honoured someone's talents erroneously is not tawdry.

We could concentrate on his pension, but tearing up contracts is a dangerous thing, and the rule of law will always be worth more than the thrill of retribution. We have to accept that people who run major corporations are at the very least accomplished negotiators, and nowhere will that be demonstrated more neatly than in their own contracts. So if he hadn't sorted himself out a pension deal that could weather the slings and arrows of outrageous editorialising, then he'd be dangerously unqualified.

Our international reputation is totally unaffected: few people take our honours system seriously as a global index of anything except that we are crackers and we like to wear cloaks. If we look as though, as a populace, we're angry with the banking sector, that's because we are, and in this we are indistinguishable from every other developed economy (I am using "developed" as a euphemism for "screwed").

Is this consistent? No – you could strip the entire board, plus the FSA, plus any other given banker who could have seen the crash coming and acted differently, of their award. You could ask why the banking sector was so over-represented in the honours list in the first place, when its pecuniary rewards are already so high. You might feel a little bit disgusted that gongs have been deployed as the incarnation of a craven respect for money – that the honours system has legitimised cupidity and is, in its own way, as responsible for the financial crisis as Goodwin is. But states are not consistent; even the law is not consistent, despite the fact that its entire purpose is to codify a predictable response to any given misdemeanour. It is a (worthwhile) struggle to be a consistent individual, so I don't think we should get too hung up on that.

Finally, of course, peerages are political playthings. Usually, though, they are deployed as part of an elaborate status-gift exchange between one moneyed man and another. Suddenly, when the popular interest is represented, then it's politics.

This feeling of sheepishness is unavoidable: we gave the crisis a human face because without one it would have been even more incomprehensible, alienating and frightening than it already was. But to heap so much disaster upon one man could never be proportionate, and his disgrace leaves a hysteria-hangover. I'm sure this is how it felt to drown a witch – loads of excitement, a magnificent climax, then a drab, embarrassed realisation that you just wanted her to get wet and didn't mean her to actually die.

The difference here is that Mr Goodwin did not die and was not innocent. Stripping him of his knighthood would be a tawdry sideshow if it were the end of the story. But if it's the beginning of something, the beginning of accountability, the beginning of a new way of doing things, then it's not a bad place to start.

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As a tactic, harrying Stephen Hester until he waived his bonus and stripping Fred Goodwin of his knighthood is akin to throwing an unfavoured aristo to the mob while the rest of the court nips out the back door of the palace with the contents of the royal treasury (A reputation shredded: Sir Fred loses his knighthood, 1 February).

Hester is, by most people's reckoning, overpaid and Goodwin was reckless. But their cases are small potatoes. We have been offered a couple of scapegoats to distract from the fact that the government has backed away from proper regulation of the banks, tougher rules to stop a cosy mutual remuneration club operating among top executives, and action to narrow the pay gap.

We've paid as a nation to drag our banks back from the abyss. Even those that refused public funds were saved from the contagion that surely would have followed had no action been taken. We should demand responsible retail banking, industrial banks that forge long-term partnerships with businesses, and ringfenced "investment" banks where the foolish and the greedy can gamble with exotic pieces of paper.

The honours system was disreputable long before Goodwin got an honour – let's not forget Ceausescu and Mugabe. Indeed, plain old Fred did the establishment a final favour even as his gong was torn from him – by providing cover for the equally undeserving. We should not allow ourselves to be bought off so cheap.
Jonathan Kent
Wadhurst, East Sussex

• Our honours system is archaic, but there is a civic role for an honours system. What demeans the system further is the extrajudicial removal of honours on the recommendation of officials under pressure from hysterical politicians. If Goodwin's honour is to be removed because of the banking crash, no politician or journalist of the current generation who either encouraged the property bubble or sat idly by should get any honours from this day onward.

Goodwin was following a commercial agenda, albeit badly. What is to happen to Howard Davies or anyone else in regulation who allowed regulators to be timid and "captured"? This is a bad decision, encouraged by base politics and mob rule. Goodwin should have been left to the sufficient damnation that had come his way.
David Stockley
Reigate, Surrey

• Doesn't Digby Jones realise that the "faint whiff of the lynch mob" he refers to with haughty disdain is to be detected all too readily in the corporate realm he represents (Report, 1 February)?

Blood on the carpet after boardroom coups – often driven by personal ambition rather than shareholder value? Check. Marginalising and hounding those who have the audacity to express reservations about the frequently flawed judgment of senior executives? Check. Whimsical power-plays dressed up as corporate strategy? Check. Yes, all of these entirely reprehensible practices were the hallmark of RBS under Goodwin's leadership. So, while it's correct to say we should address systemic problems instead of pillorying individuals, that Jones and other business leaders can even attempt to claim the moral high ground is risible.
Colin Montgomery
Edinburgh

• Now that Fred Goodwin has been stripped of his knighthood by the forfeiture committee, I hope, as I advocated last year (Letters, 12 February 2011), they will also consider tax exiles and non-domiciles?  

If we are all in this together, as in any other mature democracy, all citizens must be equally liable before the taxman: we can no longer afford to subsidise any of the Green family of Monaco.Currently many low-paid workers in the Arcadia Group, which they own via this tax haven, have their wages supported by housing benefits, working tax credits and other subsidies. Incidentally, last summer Monaco closed its stamp duty loophole to stem its loss of revenue (Law No 1381 of 29 June 2011) and in effect fined anybody owning an apartment as shares registered in another tax haven 1% for the privilege.
David Nowell
New Barnet, Hertfordshire

• Although it is pleasing to see someone associated with the bank failure punished, Fred Goodwin has escaped justice in the modern sense. Where is our supreme court, our mother of parliaments, our established human rights legislation? Instead, a grey old cabal (probably knights sitting at a round table) metes out medieval skulduggery, and strips the errant rogue of a bauble. Beware underperforming Olympic athletes: Traitors' Gate and the Tower of London await you. Welcome to modern democratic Britain!
Ian McKenzie
Lincoln

• He may no longer be a "Sir", but the former head of RBS, Fred Goodwin (52), will continue to collect an annual pension from his time in the post of £342,000 a year. Never mind stripping him of his knighthood – take his money!
Sasha Simic
London

• Mr Goodwin demonstrates his lack of judgment, or naivety, by not giving a large donation to, or help raise funds for, a political party. At least one convicted criminal, with an even higher honour but a party fundraiser, has not lost his.
David Selby
Winchester, Hampshire

• In 1968 I was awarded a silver Blue Peter badge. Since then I have drunk alcohol, sworn and ridden my bicycle on the pavement on a number of occasions. Should I hand my badge back now before it is removed by the honours forfeiture committee?
Andrew Colley
Halstead, Essex

• Fred Goodwin is stripped of his knighthood for bringing about the collapse of RBS, and the deal that is cited as the straw that broke the camel's back was "the kamikaze acquisition of ABN Amro". But it is rarely mentioned that it was only by good fortune that it was not Barclays that won that poisoned chalice.

Barclays withdrew from the bid battle only after it failed to win the backing of shareholders controlling 80% of ABN's shares, and its chief executive John Varley said at the time that he was "disappointed" by the outcome but upbeat about the company's future. Then, when the downturn hit, and without the millstone that it would have been burdened with had it won the takeover battle, Barclays was able to boast that it did not need any government support. Lucky for Barclays, but unlucky for RBS.
Peter Franklin
Epping, Essex

• At the same time that Fred Goodwin was stripped of his knighthood because of his role in the banking crisis, a new grassroots campaign, Move Your Money, has been launched to encourage everyday people to change the way the banking system works.

We're hoping that people across the country will take this chance to move their money to more local and fair banks – co-operative and mutual banks, building societies and credit unions.
Ed Mayo
Secretary general, Co-operatives UK

Chris Preddie grew up on the fringes of gangs and drugs, and is a cousin of Damilola Taylor's killers. Yet, aged 24, he is being awarded an OBE for his youth work. Here, he talks about his past, his name – and his passion for motivating others

^'At first I thought the letter had to be a prank, a windup," says Chris Preddie, who at 24 was one of the youngest recipients of the OBE in this year's honours list. "When I opened it and saw it said about the prime minister and then Her Majesty the Queen, I thought, 'Nah, what's all this about?' Then I phoned the number and the voice on the other end of the line said it was true and I was invited to go to Buckingham Palace. I thought: 'Oh man – it's real!'"

Preddie's OBE is in recognition of his "outstanding contribution to youth work". A young black man brought up on a council estate in north London by his single mother, who had to work at three jobs to keep him and his two sisters in food and clothing, he was characterised by some sections of the press as "a former drug-dealing gang member". Much was made of the fact that he is a cousin of brothers Ricky and Danny Preddie, who were convicted in 2006 of the manslaughter of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor, killed with a broken bottle in 2000. But Chris Preddie does not have a hint of a criminal record and has been volunteering and working with young people at risk since he was 17.

We meet in a small London cafe near Caledonian Road tube station. He smiles a lot. We start to chat and after just a few minutes in his company I can imagine perfectly the impact that he has on the young people he works with. Preddie gives off an almost visible aura of positivity. His eyes are bright and hopeful – and when he talks you know that the optimism he exudes is not just for himself but for those who need it more than he does.

But was he in a gang? Was he a drug dealer? He shakes his head. "Nah … there were friends who had fights when other crews came into the area. I was around it, but I never really got involved. I'm not going to deny I dabbled with a bit of weed when I was younger, but I was never a crack or heroin dealer."

How did he feel when Richard Taylor, Damilola's father, said publicly that he was "totally against" him receiving the OBE? "I'm sorry for that family," he says, "but I can only be accountable for my actions. That's all any of us can do. I think what I'm here for is to do good work and I don't want to have to apologise for that. My name is what was given to me at birth. The first time I met my cousins was at my brother's funeral. They were in chains. I never knew them."

Ricky Preddie was freed in 2010, four years into an eight-year sentence. He was recalled to prison in February for a second time for breaching the terms of his release. Danny Preddie was released in September 2011 after serving five years.

After elementary school Chris Preddie's mother sent him to a school in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, which she thought would give him a better chance than schools in their area of Finsbury Park. He excelled at football and athletics. He says he wasn't a goodie-goodie, "but I wasn't the baddest kid either. I was a bit disruptive, but that was because of my dyslexia. I thought I was one of the dumbest kids in the class." After losing interest in football he says he felt the lure of the streets until his older half-brother Andrew, who was brought up in Brixton, was shot dead in a gang-related incident in a south London barber shop four days after Preddie's 16th birthday.

Just at the right moment, a youth worker advised him not to focus on the negative and encouraged him to join a drama group. It was then he discovered not only his talent for acting and writing, but also his ability to motivate others. "My mum used to say to me, if I keep hanging about with people who I know are doing wrong things and I say nothing, then I must be a follower. She'd say to me: 'Do you want to be a follower or a leader?' I found myself saying the same things to people around me. It was then I started getting asked to talk to other young people and started volunteering with youth groups."

He joined WAC performing arts and media college in 2005 and his creative talent really began to shine. In 2006 at his first attempt under his stage name Cashman, he won the Rise Londonwide Youth Slam poetry championship. "I love rapping," he says, and recites some of the work that made him overall winner. In the cafe, conversations cease and heads turn. The effect is electrifying. I've never been a fan of rap, but instantly I get what Preddie does. He's a gifted performance artist.

In 2008 he became the first "community champion" for the charity Crimestoppers, going into schools and youth venues running workshops and giving inspiring presentations about the importance of making the right choices. Wasn't he worried about being perceived as a snitch? "Straight away, straight way, I could see some people would think it was about snitching. I knew if I went in to a school and said: 'I work for Crimestoppers' every young person in the place would shut down. So I'd let them know I'm a cool guy first and then tell them it's not about snitching, it's about saving people's lives. I'd say: 'Say for instance I saw your mum from a window getting attacked and I saw you the next day and you asked me if I saw anything and I said, oh I can't say, I'm not a snitch, how you gonna feel?' I can't tell them not to do things, all I can explain is the consequences if they make bad choices, bad decisions."

He thinks that the prevalence of gang culture is often overstated. "A lot of kids, they're just hanging around with people they grew up with and known all their lives, like a family. You see them on a street corner and they're perceived as a gang."

Preddie's efforts now focus on his burgeoning social enterprise organisation MDR – Make Dreams Reality. "We want every young person to be able to realise his or her potential," he says. "It's what they deserve."

He collects his OBE from the Queen on Thursday – a short distance, but a giant leap, from Finsbury Park to Buckingham Palace.

A sixth World Club Challenge followed by an honour from the Queen was all in a week's work for the England captain

Jamie Peacock has been spared a first close encounter with the Widnes pitch that has been polarising opinion in the Super League to give him more time to recover from the gruelling World Club Challenge triumph over Manly nine days ago and to reflect on a memorable week in which he also travelled to Buckingham Palace to collect his MBE.

The England captain will watch from the sidelines at the Stobart Stadium when Leeds Rhinos take to the artificial surface on Sunday afternoon. "We've not enough vaseline for me to play on there," he joked, stressing that he would not have worn tights if selected, as several of the Rhinos are expected to do.

After turning 34 in December, Peacock has reluctantly conceded that managing his workload makes sense if he is to end this season as well as he did last, with a seventh Grand Final win in 11 years. He is still hoping to maintain his position as one of Super League's dominant props for long enough to lead England into next year's World Cup on home soil and his performance against Manly suggested it is a realistic goal, even after the serious knee injury that required a reconstruction before the start of last season.

"It's been up there with the best weeks I've had in my life," the greying Yorkshireman said of the combination of a record-extending sixth World Club win followed by his date with the Queen. "In any walk of life the bigger the challenge you have to overcome, the more satisfaction you get from it. That is always the case in rugby league playing against an Australian team and certainly against Manly last week.

"They were at full strength and they are the champions and the way the game went we had to do it the hard way. Being at Headingley made it special as well, our own home ground rather than a neutral one. It's a night I'll always remember.

"Getting the MBE was completely different, obviously, but equally memorable. Just having the chance to take my family down to London on the Tuesday, and spending that time together, was special. Then to go to the Palace and hear the Queen's voice talking to you, it's a weird feeling. But it was special because it's recognition coming from outside rugby league, which makes it different from all the other medals and trophies. I look at it as recognition for the game and the other players and people I've worked with for club and country, as well as for myself."

Peacock's breather is a rare piece of good news for Widnes, whose accident-prone return to the Super League after a six-season absence has so far seen three players seriously injured on the "iPitch", three more banned for a breach of discipline and three consecutive defeats.

There will be a sombre atmosphere across the Pennines at Castleford, whose coach Ian Millward is not expected to attend the game against one of his former clubs Wigan after the sudden death of his 19-year-old son last weekend.

Peacock's former club Bradford bounced back from last week's embarrassing defeat by Wigan with a 36-18 win at Wakefield. Elliott Whitehead, a 22-year-old second-row who has occasionally been compared with a young Peacock, scored an eye-catching hat-trick for the Bulls, following a 50-metres interception try in the first half by rising high to collect two Ben Jeffries kicks in the second.

Team GB's 'extraordinary year' at Games raises question of whether New Year honours can reward all gold medallists

Downing Street insisted on Mondaythere was no quota for the award of honours to Britain's gold medal-winning Olympic athletes.

The success of Team GB – with 43 athletes collecting 29 gold medals between them and more expected in the Paralympics – has prompted speculation that some could miss out in the New Year honours list.

The most senior civil servant at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport cautioned at the weekend there would be no "automatic gong" for winning gold in the London 2012 Games.

Jonathan Stephens said the sports honours committee, which makes recommendations for awards, would be looking to recognise those who "put something back" as well as succeeding in their chosen event.

No 10 has rejected reports that new rules drawn up by the head of the civil service and chairman of the main honours committee, Sir Bob Kerslake, would limit the number of honours which could go to Team GB.

"Honours are awarded on merit, not according to quotas," the prime minister's official spokesman said.

However, his statement appeared at odds with a comment by Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, the Paralympic gold medallist who sits on the sports honours committee. In a normal year, she said, the committee would be restricted to one or two knighthoods, "a few more" CBEs and between 45 and 50 MBEs, the lowest tier in the honours system.

While there might be "a little room for manoeuvre" in the light of Team GB's success, she said the committee was trying to "manage expectation" before the publication of the honours list at the end of the year.

"We do have a limit on the numbers that we can award each year. I think that is where we are trying to manage expectation," she told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.

"The sports honours committee can't just give out 20 knighthoods or 20 dames. We have a number each year that we allocate.

"Although there might be a little room for manoeuvre with the success of this year's Olympics and hopefully Paralympics, we are trying to manage expectation a little bit."

She said gold medallists – who might have expected an MBE as a matter of course in the past – would have to be considered alongside those who had contributed through years of volunteering.

"We'd love to give out honours to absolutely everyone but I think the key is in the title – it's an honour, it's not an automatic reward," she said.

"In sports honours, what we are trying to do, we are trying to balance achievement in sport against somebody who has maybe volunteered for a number of years."

All Britain's gold medallists in the 2008 Beijing Olympics were recognised in the subsequent New Year honours list, despite more than 20 athletes gaining gold – although there was controversy over the fact that half of the Paralympic gold medallists missed out.

The culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said he hoped as many medallists as possible would be recognised. "Honours are awarded on merit, but there has been a lot of merit this year," he told Sky News.

"I would like to see as many of those amazing medallists rewarded as possible but obviously it has to be done at arm's length from ministers.

"The integrity of the system has to be preserved but it's been the most extraordinary year for British sport in our lifetime and I would be very surprised if that wasn't reflected in the number of honours that were given out."

Lord Moynihan, who has just stood down as head of the British Olympic Association, said the athletes had "inspired a nation" and deserved recognition.

"Gold medallists from Team GB were inspirational, they were role models," he told Sky News. "Many of them have been out and about in the last week inspiring young people to take up sport. Many were doing a lot before then.

"I have never been associated with a team which has been so dedicated, committed their lives to the success of the team, delivered so well, and on top of that now are inspiring a generation.

"If ever there were good cases for recognition in the honours list, my view is those gold medallists are."

Metropolitan police commissioner caught up in 'pleb' row is praised as 'role model for single-minded crime fighting'

Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan police commissioner who is at the centre of a row over a confrontation between armed officers and Andrew Mitchell in Downing Street, is knighted in the New Year honours.

Hogan-Howe, who succeeded Sir Paul Stephenson as commissioner last year after winning widespread praise as chief constable of Merseyside, is lauded in the official citation as a "role model for single-minded crime fighting".

The knighthood, awarded to every Met commissioner since 1890, comes at a sensitive moment for Hogan-Howe. He had to break off his Christmas holiday last week to check on the welfare of officers involved in the fallout of the confrontation with Mitchell in Downing Street in September.

Senior Tory MPs claimed last week that Hogan-Howe was "completely compromised" after saying that nothing made him doubt the account of two armed officers who claimed in an official log that Mitchell had described them as "fucking plebs". These claims were repeated in an email by a fellow member of the diplomatic protection group who claimed to have witnessed the incident as a member of the public.

Doubts were raised about their log and the email when CCTV footage showed that only one member of the public appeared to stand at the Downing Street gates at the time of the incident. This was contrary to their claim that "several … members of public looked visibly shocked".

There were reports that officials in Whitehall considered last week whether it was possible to cancel, or delay, the knighthood until the conclusion of the investigation into the police conduct. This was being discounted on the grounds that ministers have gone out of their way in the past week to express complete confidence in Hogan-Howe.

The citation for his knighthood says: "Bernard Hogan-Howe QPM is a role model for single-minded crime fighting. He oversaw a 30% fall in crime over three years as chief constable of Merseyside; anti-social behaviour fell by 20% in a single year. Now Metropolitan police commissioner, he has brought new energy to action on gangs, guns and knife crime, using zero-tolerance tactics and sustaining frontline visibility. He oversaw the policing of London during the diamond jubilee, and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games."

The commissioner said: "I am very proud and thrilled at this recognition of the hard work of colleagues in the Metropolitan police, South Yorkshire, Merseyside and Her Majesty's Inspectorate. I couldn't have achieved this without the love and support of my wife Marion, and my mum, who hasn't seen the day."

The knighthood for Hogan-Howe came as four Tory donors were awarded in the New Year's honours. Michael Heller, who gave £30,000 to the party between 2001 and 2003, is awarded a knighthood for charitable work.

Heller's citation says: "Michael Heller is an extremely generous philanthropist. He founded two charities (one jointly with his late father) whose donations have straddled educational research and humanitarian causes, including to cancer research; establishing bursaries to enable medical students to engage in the arts and humanities; widening participation in university life; and supporting the Chichester festival theatre."

Terry Bramall, who has given the party £60,000 over the past decade, is given a CBE for charitable works. Johanna Waterous, of Venture Capital Investor, who gave £4,000 to the party in 2006, is awarded a CBE for services to Supporting Business Growth. Tony Pidgley, chairman of the Berkeley Group, who gave £2,300 to the party in 2005, is awarded a CBE for his work on housing.

Margaret Beckett, Britain's first and so far only female foreign secretary, is made a dame. Beckett, who served as a whip in Harold Wilson's government and as an education minister in Jim Callaghan's government, became the Labour deputy leader in 1992 and served as leader in 1994 between the death of John Smith and the election of Tony Blair.

Angela Watkinson, the Conservative MP for Upminster since 2001, is also appointed a dame. Richard Shepherd, the fiercely Eurosceptic Tory MP for Aldridge Brownhill since 1979 who was one of the Maastricht rebels in the early 1990s, is knighted.

The awards to the political veterans show the prime minister is keen to maintain political honours after he was criticised for knighting four male ministers who lost their jobs in the September reshuffle. Cheryl Gillan and Caroline Spelman were not given awards when they lost their posts, though they will be entitled to go to the Lords as former cabinet ministers.

Michael Cashman, the former actor who is now Labour MEP for the West Midlands, is awarded a CBE for his "public and political service" as a parliamentarian and campaigner for gay rights. Malcolm Harbour, a long-serving Tory MEP for the West Midlands who played a central role in driving through the services directive, is also awarded a CBE.

Ultra marathon runner, 77, and volunteer lifeboat helmsman among those honoured for contribution to community

The majority of honours – almost three-quarters – are given to ordinary people actively engaged in charitable or voluntary work, often within their local community. They also recognise some extraordinary feats.

Grandfather Jack Denness, 77, a former school caretaker known as Death Valley Jack, was "shocked" when notification of an MBE popped through his letterbox. Having completed more than 100 marathons, as well as 12 135-mile Badwater Ultra marathons through scorching Nevada desert temperatures of up to 55C, he has raised more than £100,000 for children with cerebral palsy.

He thought it was "a wind up". "Then I read it and I was shocked they would give this to me. I'm just an ordinary fella from a humble background," said Denness, from Rochester, Kent. His whose last endurance race was in 2010, aged 75, when he completed the run through Death Valley, California, in 59 hours and 13 minutes, breaking his record of being the oldest to finish.

Penelope Clough, 53, is made an MBE after suffering huge personal tragedy. She and her husband have campaigned for a change in the law relating to bail after their daughter, Jane, a nurse, was stabbed to death in a Blackpool hospital carpark in 2010 by her ex-partner, Jonathan Vass, who had been released on bail after being accused of rape and assault offences.

Clough, from Barrowford, near Nelson, Lancashire, who with her husband launched the Justice for Jane campaign, said her first impression on learning of her MBE was "wow". "My second impression was shock that my husband hadn't got one. I feel quite gutted because we are a partnership and we have gone through all this together," she said.

Mandy Painter, 46, who has raised tens of thousands of pounds for charity after her 11-year-old son, Josh, died of a brain tumour, is awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM). She started her fundraising for the Starlight Children's Foundation, which grants wishes for seriously ill children, after it helped grant her son's wish to meet actor Orlando Bloom. Josh died in August 2006. "It's so emotional because this is about Josh, it's not about me, it's never been about me, it's always been about him," said Painter, from Worcester. She said she sat on her bed and cried when she received the BEM notification letter. "It's hard, but it's great. Josh would have been amazed, absolutely amazed, and proud," she said.

Mike Picknett, 44, a volunteer helmsman at the RNLI Redcar lifeboat station for more than 20 years, is also awarded the BEM. "I will wear it with pride. I consider it to be an award for all the volunteer staff at Redcar who dedicate so much of their lives to the RNLI and the work it does," he said.

Formerly unsung heroes from Girlguiding, the Scouts and local community organisation join those honoured for their contribution to the more unusual activities of British music hall, bell ringing, beekeeping, rope making, stone and wood carving and even the card game Bridge.

Know your Companions of Honour from your Commanders of the British Empire

Order of the Companion of Honour (CH) For service of conspicuous national importance, held by only 65 people at a time. Current holders include Sir Stephen Hawking, Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen.

Order of the Bath For service of the highest calibre. It has a civil and military division and is awarded in the following ranks : Knight Grand Cross (GCB), Knight/Dame Commander (KCB/DCB) and Companion (CB).

Order of St Michael and St George Founded by George III and awarded to British subjects for extraordinary and important services abroad or in the Commonwealth. In order: Knight/Dame Grand Cross (GCMG), Knight/Dame Commander (KCMG/DCMG) and Companion (CMG).

Orders of the British Empire Created in 1917, awarded mainly to civilians and service personnel for public service and other distinctions. Has a military and civil division. In order: Knight/Dame Grand Cross (GBE), Knight/Dame Commander (KBE/DBE), Commander (CBE), Officer (OBE) and Member (MBE).

British Empire Medal, established in 1922, in abeyance from 1992 and reintroduced in June 2012. The "people's medal" is awarded for meritorious civilian or military service worthy of recognition.

Our system for rewarding public service is an absurd hangover from feudal times. The status it bestows is meaningless

Republicans think the honours system is absurd, with the Queen the font of all honour in the land, clippety-clop, doffety-cap. The image of her three dreadful sons in their garter robes proves the point that hereditary nobility and genuine nobility are almost never the same thing, beyond the imaginings of Disney animators. But we do postcard pomp and mindless status well in Britain. It is Camelot politics – quaint yes, but hardly benevolent. It is a class board game, played three times a year, in which we mass into organised hierarchies, in the manner of gibbering toddlers. Not sure who is above you, and who below? The honours committee, like the sumptuary laws of olde, will tell.

I did not know, for example, that the achievements of the cyclist Bradley Wiggins and the sailor Ben Ainslie (knighthoods) outclassed those of the runner Mo Farah and the heptathlete Jessica Ennis (Commanders of the British Empire) until the honours factory told me. I did not know that Farah and Ennis were also eclipsed by Lord Coe, now a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, which is essentially a donkey sanctuary for Tory peers, and also by his colleagues on the London 2012 organising committee, Sir Keith Mills and Lord Deighton, now respectively a Knight Grand Cross and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire. If only these doughty collectors of honours had shown the same enthusiasm for procuring seats for those who actually paid for the Games; if only trade unionists got the same thanks for doing their jobs.

In history, the honours system existed simply as an expression of, and means to uphold, royal power. It was a moneyed fist, both carrot and stick. Later, it acted to subsume all talent and potential power to itself. Watching its flailing attempts to democratise, in the same way the royal family was bullied into paying tax and weeping for Diana, is almost the only fun to be had with it. But it is still a feudal beast in the gift of the sovereign, managed by the government and cut with light entertainment "heroes", because tweedy civil servants assume that were the monarchy elected, Sir Bruce Forsyth would be king. Maybe he would. Who knows? It depends how stupid you think people are and, judging on the percentage of Games tickets withheld for VIPs and VVIPs and even more malevolent and longer acronyms, that might be very stupid indeed.

Angst about reform comes regularly, because an angsty elite looks better than a smug one. Reform always fails, because a system of preference based on hereditary power cannot be reformed. It can only be spun. Its innate corruption is best illustrated by the arguments in its favour. No one waggles photographs of the emperor of Japan in his garter robes to demonstrate the benefit to the public of the honours system, and gongs for civil servants and political allies and favour-doers are as little screamed about, as well they might be. (The cash for honours scandal in 2006 resulted in no prosecutions, because the police eventually realised, as in a Monty Python miasma, that absolutely everyone was complicit and so they would have to arrest the lot of them.)

Earlier this year (Sir) Bob Kerslake, the head of the civil service, wrote in these pages that the honours system, far from being yet another expression of hereditary power, and the way in which elites secure that power, exists to reward the little people. (He did not call them that.) It is not for those at the top but those at the bottom, is the dull, dishonest line. It is the refrain of the tyrant of every age.

There is always something to make one laugh, and wince; there is always a giddy refusenik. The breathtaking hubris award is the knighthood for Hector Sants, who was head of the Financial Services Authority before and during the crash, responsible for regulating the City (verdict of MPs on the FSA: "asleep at the wheel"). The new Dame Margaret Beckett is only slightly less horrible, because the Labour party's first female leader should be more mindful of what her career was for, that is, not being suckered into an elite. The light entertainment award was to Arlene Phillips, the former Strictly Come Dancing judge, although this is probably a swipe at the BBC, who fired Phillips for daring to be middle-aged while female. Danny Boyle, who directed the opening ceremony of the Olympics, declined an honour, which was decent if necessary; had he accepted it, it would have implied he didn't understand his own work.

It is true that a majority of honours go to those Kerslake calls the "unsung". Those would be the common honours, named for an empire that no longer exists, unless you want to eat nostalgia, thin as cloud, from tatty commemorative plates. (How descendants of inhabitants of the colonies feel about this retrospective psychic land grab I know not.) Obviously good work is done, but if you believe that monarchy is inherently corrupt, it is absurd for this institution to reward others for selflessness, a limp epilogue to a thousand-year scam.

The artist says she is 'looking forward to seeing the look on my mum's face' after being awarded a CBE

Once she recorded the names of the 102 people she had shared a bed with; now Tracey Emin is among those given the royal seal of approval, with the award of a CBE in the New Year honours list.

The 49-year-old artist has been best known for eye-opening works including Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995, the tent embroidered with names that was destroyed in a warehouse fire in 2004, and My Bed, an installation of her unmade dirty bed including objects such as used condoms, discarded tampon applicators and blood-spotted underwear.

But in receiving her CBE, the former Young British Artist confirmed her move towards a less sexually charged mainstream. In a recent Guardian interview, she said that hitting the menopause meant that it was time to start "using your mind more" – swapping sex for stargazing.

Nevertheless, Emin said the honour might have been a surprise to some: "I think they pushed me in at the deep end. But I'm absolutely thrilled. It's been insane trying to keep it a secret but I'm really looking forward to seeing the look on my mum's face."

Emin is one of three long-established women in the arts and showbusiness to be recognised with a CBE in this year's list. The reclusive singer Kate Bush, who first broke into the charts in the 1970s while still in her teens, and Arlene Phillips, a former judge on BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing, were also honoured.

Bush, who made her first public appearance in seven years in May to receive a South Bank arts award for her most recent album, 50 Words for Snow, was rewarded for services to music. She said she was "deeply honoured" and it was a "great surprise" to be nominated.

The 54-year-old turned down an approach to sing at the Olympics closing ceremony, which would have been her first live solo performance in 33 years; instead she recorded a new version of her 1985 hit Running Up That Hill for the finale.

Phillips, 69, picked up her CBE for her choreography and charity work, although many will know her best from Strictly Come Dancing and an ageism row at the BBC when she was ousted as a judge in favour of Alesha Dixon after the end of the 2008 series. Phillips, who was born in Lancashire, said: "I am very pleasantly surprised but mostly absolutely thrilled and delighted to receive such a wonderful honour."

The actor Ewan McGregor received an OBE for services to drama and charity. The 41-year-old's charity work includes working with Unicef and the Children's Hospice Association of Scotland. Martha Lane Fox, the co-founder of Lastminute.com and the government's digital evangelist, received a CBE for voluntary services to the UK digital economy and charity. Ian Livingston, chief executive of BT and life president of video games firm Eidos, received a CBE for services to the computer gaming industry.

Jeremy Lloyd, who penned such classic sitcoms as Are You Being Served? and 'Allo 'Allo!, received an OBE for services to British comedy. Darren Henley, the managing director of Classic FM, received an OBE for services to music, while Nicola Benedetti, the 25-year-old Scottish classical violinist, was awarded an MBE for services to music and charity.

Magnus Linklater, the former Scotland editor of the Times, received a CBE for services to Scottish arts and media. Christina Lamb, foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times, received an OBE for services to journalism.

Olympians and Paralympians lead the gong show in a highly patriotic list expanded to take in a successful summer of sport

Cyclists Bradley Wiggins and Sarah Storey, sailor Ben Ainslie and a host of Olympic and Paralympic athletes have received awards in a highly patriotic New Year honours list, specially expanded to reflect Britain's sporting success at London 2012.

Wiggins, who claimed his fourth Olympic gold days after becoming the first British winner of the Tour de France, receives a knighthood, as does Ainslie, a gold medallist at four consecutive Games. Storey becomes Dame Sarah in recognition of her Paralympic career, in which she has won a record-equalling 11 gold medals in swimming and cycling.

Sebastian Coe, already a Lord, becomes a Companion of Honour in recognition of his work as chair of the Olympics organising committee, Locog, and the chief executive of the Games, Paul Deighton, is knighted. The unprecedented expansion in the number of honours awarded to sporting figures — 123 gongs compared to 44 last year — means every British gold medallist at London 2012 has now been awarded an honour.

Outside of sport, Professor Peter Higgs, the physicist who gave his name to the "God particle" which scientists believe they discovered this year, becomes a Companion of Honour. The award carries no title but is granted to no more than 65 recipients at any one time.

There are knighthoods for illustrator Quentin Blake, famous for the Roald Dahl books; Peter Hendy, commissioner of Transport for London; industrial designer Kenneth Grange; and Jonathan Evans, head of MI5. Martin Narey, ministerial adviser on adoption, gains a knighthood, as does Hector Sants, former chairman of the Financial Services Authority, who raised eyebrows when he announced this month that he was to take up a post as head of compliance at scandal-hit Barclays .

The artist Tracey Emin and choreographer Arlene Phillips receive CBEs, along with the singer Kate Bush and Cherie Blair, for services to women's issues and charity. Actor Ewan McGregor gets an OBE, and an MBE goes to cricketer Mark Ramprakash.

Almost three-quarters of those honoured are ordinary people who have made a notable contribution to their community, often without recognition. Just under half of those honoured, 47%, are women, up from 41% last year, but the proportion of ethnic minority recipients has fallen from 7% to 5%.

The new Sir Bradley Wiggins said he had never seen himself as a knight "and I probably never will". "It's not something I'll use on a daily basis, but it's nice to have in the trophy cabinet as the ultimate accolade as a sportsman, being knighted by your country for not only the success this year but 12 years now of consistent work and performing."

Storey was "speechless but incredibly honoured and extremely proud" to accept her DBE. "I never expected any additional awards after my sporting success, I love competing for my country and that is a huge honour in itself."

Gold medallists Mo Farah, Victoria Pendleton, Jessica Ennis and Katherine Grainger receive CBEs, as does David Weir, the paralympic cyclist who won four golds in London, and whom some had tipped for a knighthood. Tennis player Andy Murray, cyclists Jason Kenny and Laura Trott, and equestrian riders Charlotte Dujardin and Sophie Christiansen receive OBEs, along with the paralympic swimmer Ellie Simmonds, who at 18 is believed to be one of the youngest recipients of the award.

Among those given MBEs are boxer Nicola Adams, gymnast Louis Smith and paralympic sprinter Johnny Peacock. Alistair Brownlee, who took gold in the triathlon, becomes an MBE, but his brother Jonathan, who won bronze, does not appear on the list.

Many of those behind London 2012's sporting success are also honoured. Dave Brailsford and David Tanner, performance directors of the Team GB cycling and rowing squads, are knighted. London 2012's sport director Debbie Jevans receives a CBE; Jean Tomlin, the human resources director behind the hugely successful Games Maker programme, an OBE; and Deborah Hale, producer of the torch relay, an MBE. The designer of the Team GB kit, Stella McCartney, receives an OBE.

The special Olympic and Paralympic list, and the 286 British Empire Medals awarded to people who had contributed to their local communities, reflected "a desire to expand the honours system and make sure we're extending their reach", said a spokesman for the Cabinet Office, which co-ordinates the honours.

Asked about Weir's surprise omission from the list of new knights, he said the sporting awards were judged according to a number of criteria, including whether they were still competing and stood a good chance of future success, "otherwise there's a difficulty that the committee would have nowhere else to go".

In accordance with the "strategic direction" for the awards set by the prime minister, philanthropy was a key theme, the spokesman said, and there are knighthoods for Michael Heller and Martin Smith, who have donated money to education and other good causes. Terry Bramall, who established a charitable trust with a gross donation of £96m, gets a CBE.

Quentin Blake, whose award recognises his work commissioning art for hospitals, as well as his involvement in the House of Illustration, a museum and gallery due to open in 2014, said: "I think of it as quite a nice 80th birthday present. But I think it is even more valuable to me because it is for things that aren't finished, it relates to projects that are still ongoing."

Kenneth Grange, 83, whose designs include the first parking meters, the 1997 London taxi, the rural post box, and (his favourite) the nose cone of the British Rail InterCity 125 high speed train, said he was "chuffed to bits". "It's at the top of the pile, I think", he said. He planned to continue to work, he said, "until I drop, it's the nature of the beast".

The second world war codebreaker, Raymond "Jerry" Roberts, 92, receives the MBE for services to Bletchley Park. One of four founder members of the Testery sections, involved with the "Tunny" project – breaking the German high command's top-level code – he has campaigned for recognition of Bletchley Park's "4Ts". He said he was "delighted" it has finally come. Tunny decrypts are credited with helping to shorten the war by at least two years.

Olympics gives huge boost to number of sports people on list

1223 Number of people honoured in the 2013 list, compared to 1,021 in the Queen's birthday honours list in June.

72% Proportion of recipients who are being recognised for outstanding contributions to their communities, whether paid or voluntary.

123 Number of people recognised from the sporting world, compared to 44 in the last honours list.

47% Proportion of female recipients, representing 13 dames, 40 CBEs and 2 Companions of the Order of Bath, up from 41%.

5% Proportion of ethnic minority recipients of awards, falling from 7% in the previous list.

31 Number of headteachers honoured, including seven knighthoods and damehoods.

2% Proportion of awards granted for political and parliamentary service.

2% Estimated proportion of those offered awards who decline them.

Higgs boson theorist honoured for service of conspicuous national importance, and 31 headteachers recognised in list

The scientist who gave his name to the Higgs boson, Prof Peter Higgs, receives one of the highest accolades in the New Year honours list, that of Companion of Honour, awarded for service of conspicuous national importance.

The 83-year-old emeritus professor of theoretical physics at Edinburgh University first hit on the concept of a particle that gives matter mass during a walk in the Cairngorms 40 years ago.

In July this year, using the world's biggest atom-smashing machine, the Large Hadron Collider, at the European nuclear research facility at Cern, in Geneva, scientists believe they finally discovered such a particle.

An Edinburgh University spokesman said Higgs' honour was "a well-deserved testament to the impact of his work and the influence he is already having on the next generation of physicists".

Elsewhere in the science world, the Oxford professor of physical chemistry Carol Robinson, renowned for her groundbreaking work on the structure of molecules, becomes a dame. Susan Gibson, professor of chemistry at Imperial College London, previously the recipient of a £30,000 government award to identify role models for women in science, is made an OBE.

In what could prove to be the UK's wettest year on record, it seems fitting that Prof Brian Golding, scientific fellow at the Met Office, is given an OBE for services to weather forecasting and the prediction of hazardous weather.

The Cambridge University classicist professor Mary Beard is among academics recognised in a list in which 10% of honours go to people in education. She receives an OBE.

Thirty-one headteachers are recognised, and there are knighthoods and damehoods for seven: Sally Coates, of Burlington Danes academy, Hammersmith, west London; Joan McVittie, of Woodside high school, Haringey, north London; Vicki Paterson, of Brindishe Green school, Brindishe Lee school and Lee Manor school, Lewisham, south-east London; Helen Hyde, of Watford grammar school for girls; Christopher Stone, of the Arthur Terry and Stockland Green schools, Birmingham; Prof George Berwick , of Ravens Wood school, Bromley, Kent; and Nicholas Williams, lately of the Brit school, Croydon.

Sants steered banking regulator through period of unprecedented turmoil before stepping down in June

Hector Sants, Britain's top financial regulator during the 2008 banking crisis, has been awarded a knighthood, weeks before he takes up a new post at Barclays bank on a pay package worth a reputed £3m.

Sants, who stepped down as chief executive of the Financial Services Authority in June, steered the regulator through a period of unprecedented turmoil. Two years ago he was persuaded by George Osborne to stay on to help lay the ground for a new regulatory regime to succeed the FSA, which comes into effect early next year.

Sants was criticised in some quarters for failing to see the crash coming, as well as for the feeble penalties meted out to a small number of bankers linked to failing financial institutions.

A month after the government bailouts of Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group in 2008, the Queen described the banking crash as "awful", asking: "Why did nobody notice it?"

This month during a visit to the Bank of England, she inquired whether the FSA "did not have the teeth" to keep the banks in check – a question she will now get to ask Sants in person.

By recommending Sants for a top honour, ministers are signalling their unequivocal gratitude for his contribution to keeping the banking system from systemic meltdown.

Sants' version of events is that he had expressed misgivings about the "light touch" nature of FSA regulation long before the US subprime mortgage crisis exploded into a global banking shock in the summer of 2007.

After his promotion to lead the FSA in July that year there was nothing he could have done, he said, to prevent Northern Rock spiralling toward nationalisation or RBS's disastrous acquisition of its Dutch rival ABN Amro. The goal had become one of crisis management and damage limitation.

Osborne, who announced the abolition of the FSA as one of his first moves as chancellor in 2010, has always been careful to exempt Sants from his savage analysis of the regulator's track record. On news of his departure from the FSA, the chancellor described Sants as an "outstanding public servant".

Osborne wanted Sants to become the first chief executive of the Prudential Regulation Authority, one of the new bodies to succeed the FSA, but in March Sants announced he would step down before the PRA came into operation.

This month it emerged he was taking up a newly created post at Barclays, tasked with overhauling the bank's regulatory compliance procedures.

Barclays has received four fines totalling £70m from the FSA in less than three years, the largest and most recent being a £59.5m penalty for misconduct relating to attempts over several years to manipulate the so-called Libor interest rates, used by banks lending to one another.

This year Barclays clashed with the Treasury over its aggressive approach to certain tax structures, leading to a unorthodox public announcement from the chancellor that he had moved to block two "highly abusive" tax schemes that could have cost the taxpayer £500m.

Also rewarded in the New Year honours list is Mridul Hedge, the former director of financial stability at the Treasury. From 2008 until this year she was the chief Treasury mandarin responsible for the government's intervention in the banking sector and for overseeing the taxpayers' multibillion-pound stakes in the most troubled finance houses. She becomes a Companion of the Order of Bath.

Sir Alan Budd, a civil servant brought out of retirement by Osborne to set up the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, receives a Knight Grand Cross.

A smattering of business leaders appear in the list, but names from the banking industry are once again conspicuous by their absence. Those receiving CBEs include Nicholas Ferguson, the BSkyB chairman and former private equity boss, for philanthropy and services to education. Ferguson once sparked outrage when he observed that private equity millionaires paid less tax than their cleaners.

Peter Marks, chief executive of the Co-op Group, Tony Pidgley, chairman of Berkeley Group, and Martha Lane Fox, co-founder of Lastminute.com, are all honoured.

Michael Terrett, the chief operating officer at Rolls-Royce, is awarded a CBE. Rolls-Royce is facing investigation by the Serious Fraud Office over allegations of bribery linked to aero-engine contracts.

The lord mayor of London, David Wootton, a former corporate lawyer, is to receive a knighthood.

Billington has been the Guardian's theatre critic since 1971 and French the Observer's film critic for 50 years

The Guardian's theatre critic, Michael Billington, and the Observer's film critic, Philip French, receive OBEs in the New Years honours list for services to theatre and film respectively.

Billington, the Guardian's theatre critic since 1971 and author of several books including a biography of Harold Pinter and State of the Nation: British Theatre since 1945, said: "I'm thrilled, delighted and surprised."

The longest-serving member of the Critics' Circle, he added: "I'm glad for the Guardian. Also, it is the 100th anniversary of the Critics' Circle this year, so I believe it is recognition not of me but of the need for critics and the continuity of criticism."

French, film critic for the Observer for 50 years, said he was "genuinely surprised" and described it as "a very considerable honour".

In his distinguished career French has also received a lifetime honorary membership of Bafta and a lifetime achievement award from the film Critics' Circle. He is one of only three British film critics to have sat on the jury of the Cannes film festival.

It is fitting that both are honoured on the same day, as they have been friends since French, then a BBC Radio 3 producer, hired Billington as a reviewer in 1965. The recruit's first task? To review two plays by a then unknown writer, Tom Stoppard.

Olympic medal winners are prominent in the 2012 New Year honours list, which also features organising committee chief Sebastian Coe

Our critic has been awarded an OBE for services to film. Here he reflects on a life of cinema and chooses extracts from five of his movie reviews

Casting my mind back to my Observer debut, it occurred to me that, had I been celebrating half a century of writing on films for the paper in 1963, I would have been reflecting on a career begun by reviewing the arrival of Charlie Chaplin and going on to DW Griffith's Birth of a Nation. But the Observer didn't have a movie critic until the mid-1920s, when the Honourable Ivor Montagu (a peer's son, table tennis champion, lifelong communist, the man who saved Hitchcock's bacon by re-editing The Lodger) joined the paper. He was succeeded in 1928 by the Manchester Guardian's critic, CA Lejeune, who helped create the view widely held in Fleet Street that reviewing films was women's work. Indeed, her first two regular successors were Penelope Gilliatt and Penelope Mortimer who, together with Penelope Houston (then editor of Sight and Sound) led to the belief that you had to be either gay or called Penelope to get a top job reviewing films. Which may explain why 15 years passed before I became the paper's full-time critic.

When I started out there were, at the most, three or four films shown to the press each week. You had, however, to see them in cinemas. Nowadays there are frequently 10 or 11, but most smaller distributors are keen to give you a disc to watch at home. There were more cinemas then, many of them in side streets, delightfully insalubrious and, unlike movie houses today, they all had an individual character. Most showed films in continuous performances so you could come and go whenever you liked, a practice that gave us the expression, "this is where we came in".

Thirty years ago, the majority of us thought that movie critics would soon be following saddlers and harness-makers into oblivion. Luckily that hasn't proved the case in a world where films are more widely available than ever, are taken more seriously and are so well entrenched culturally that we no longer need to describe the products of the 10th muse as the new rock'n'roll. My successors will inherit a profession with a remarkable past and an assured future.

The Deer Hunter

Michael Cimino Sunday 4 March 1979

The Deer Hunter is not just a political or a polemical film. As the title suggests there are links with [James] Fenimore Cooper, and its themes and situations take us directly to Hemingway's Great War stories. One recalls Soldier's Home, where an army veteran finds himself incapable of communicating with his old friends, and The Big Two-Hearted River, in which Hemingway's fictional alter ego Nick Adams (one of Cimino's characters is also called Nick) goes on a solitary fishing expedition after he returns traumatised from Europe.

The picture is about that perennial American preoccupation with male friendship, seen as a finer and stronger thing than love between men and women. And it's about that other side of the coin, loneliness, the brooding cosmic solitude Americans have felt ever since they confronted the overpowering vastness of their continent. Unlike [Karel] Reisz's Dog Soldiers, The Deer Hunter deals with an ethnic community largely untouched by the great social currents of the 1960s and is constructed quite deliberately to eliminate discussion of war-aims and the larger issues involved in the Vietnam conflict. This is a grave weakness (some will think it an invalidating one) but it is also what enables Cimino to attain something approaching the tragic grandeur of a popular epic… The Deer Hunter is a rich and powerful picture that without a trace of patronisation or the slightest touch of cultural superiority, speaks eloquently for the inarticulate.

Au Revoir Les Enfants

Louis Malle Sunday 9 October 1988

Malle's subtly detailed movie takes place in occupied France during January 1944, less than six months before D-day, at a school for the sons of wealthy Catholics outside Fontainebleau… When a new boy called Jean Bonnet is introduced into a class of 12-year-olds, he is made the object of practical jokes and bullying despite a special request from the priests that he be treated with kindness. Initially the brightest lad in the class, Julien Quentin, joins in, to ingratiate himself with his fellows and because he recognises in the clever, scholarly Jean an academic rival.

But gradually the two become friends, sharing an interest in music and literature. And Julien discovers that this anxious outsider, posing as a protestant, is in fact Jean Kippelstein, one of three Jewish boys being hidden by the fathers – though precisely what a Jew is he cannot understand…

Eventually, of course, the Gestapo come, tipped off by an informer. The ending is quiet, understated and shattering. Denying us the easy comfort of tears, Malle makes us share a memory that has haunted him for over 40 years, a memory that must have become intensified over the years, as Julien increasingly understands the background from which Jean came, the destination to which he was being sent, and the historical circumstances that made such a tragedy possible. This can never be exorcised.

Au Revoir Les Enfants is not only the best movie on the subject of the Occupation since Malle's own Lacombe Lucien: it is also one of the best pictures ever made about childhood, and the finest French film for several years.

All About My Mother

Pedro Almodóvar Sunday 29 August 1999

From the start of his career in the early 1980s, Pedro Almodóvar has been fascinated by the Spanish obsession with love and death, with his countrymen's taste for histrionics and emotional extremes, and the traditional rigidity of sexual identity… All About My Mother, which brought Almodóvar the best director award at Cannes and should have received the Palme d'Or, is his finest film to date.

This superbly plotted, supremely confident black comedy begins with the senior nurse and single parent, Manuela (Cecilia Roth), watching All About Eve on TV with her handsome son Esteban, on the eve of his 17th birthday. He wants to become a writer and is engaged on a school project called "All About My Mother", for which he wants to hear about the father he's never met and about whom he knows nothing.

This funny, sad and emotionally generous movie is about love, parenthood, friendship and loyalty, about life, art and acting roles, about recreating oneself according to one's dreams, and about what, if anything, is truly natural. All the performances are excellent and the picture is immaculately designed in a manner recalling Douglas Sirk's work at Universal in the Fifties. While the three writers specifically cited – Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Federico García Lorca – are homosexual, this isn't in a narrow, excluding sense a gay picture. Nor, despite the fact that the only two heterosexual males of any consequence are a boy who dies in the first 10 minutes and an old man with Alzheimer's whose dog takes him for walks, is this a women's picture other than in the way it draws on certain Hollywood conventions. The film is, however, dedicated "to every actress who has ever played an actress" and to the director's mother.

Memento

Christopher Nolan Sunday 22 October 2000

Last year, [Christopher Nolan] made an auspicious debut with the zero-budget Following, shot in black-and-white on London streets. He has now written and directed one of the year's most exciting pictures, Memento, which is, like Point Blank, a revenge thriller set in southern California that repays with interest its debts to Alain Resnais. Also like Point Blank, its progress is circular, ending where it begins.

The movie (based on a story by the director's brother, Jonathan Nolan), uses a favourite plot device of postwar Freudian film noir, the hero suffering from amnesia. Hitchcock's Spellbound is perhaps the most celebrated example. But Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), the protagonist of Memento, suffers from a special form of amnesia. Due to a blow received from the man who raped and murdered his wife, Leonard suffers from short-term memory loss. He can recall his life up to the murder, but thereafter he can't remember anything for more than a few minutes at best, though he's painfully aware of his condition.

The photography, editing and production design are of the first rank, belying the film's modest budget, and the performances have a strange intensity. Guy Pearce brings total conviction to Leonard, making an everyman of this bewildered questor.

The White Ribbon

Michael Haneke Sunday 15 November 2009

Numerous novelists, dramatists and film-makers have been attracted to the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the first world war to give their work a touch of nostalgia, irony or historical resonance.

Austrian film-maker Michael Haneke uses this historical setting in his masterly The White Ribbon. It isn't, however, until more than two hours into his picture that its timespan is revealed as being from the early summer of 1913 to August the following year.

The neat, north German Protestant village has a timeless quality that, with the absence of motor cars, gas and electricity and the reliance on horse-drawn transport and rather primitive bicycles, suggests a feudal community at any time in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The White Ribbon is a spellbinding movie, as exciting as a thriller, which, indeed, it resembles. Among other things, it's about an unjust social system yoked to a repressive society that is morally and physically disintegrating, though no one's prepared to confront it. The final long-held shot is an unforgettable tableau of the villagers gathered in a small, bare church just after the outbreak of war, a portrait of a nation on the point of history. Luther's A Mighty Fortress Is Our God is being played on the organ, and the camera is viewing the congregation from the position of the altar, as if God himself is observing and interrogating his creations.

Danny Boyle's rejection of a knighthood reminds us that the principle behind the list is flawed

If 2012 confirmed one thing, it's that we the British are still suckers for a bit of pageantry. In our thousands we braved sodden jubilee garden parties or shivered in cagoules along the banks of the Thames, waving our plastic flags – even those of us who might previously have balked at the thought of being pro-monarchy.

Amid all the benign pomp and patriotism of the summer, anyone who dared to grumble about hereditary privilege and antiquated feudal power looked like a scowling killjoy at odds with the mood of the country. To object to the jubilee celebrations was like saying you hated Christmas. Then came the Olympics, with the Queen gamely doing her bit in Danny Boyle's gloriously irreverent opening ceremony, and here was more reason to celebrate Britishness. We could do pomp and we could subvert it, tongues firmly in our cheeks, and even the monarchy was smart enough to be seen doing both.

It would be easy to view the New Year honours as the culmination of the year in which patriotism was rehabilitated; a bit more harmless pageantry, a chance to celebrate the best of Britishness in all our diversity. After all, the recipients making the headlines are largely the heroes of London 2012, and who would begrudge them further recognition for their phenomenal achievements? It's only when you learn that Danny Boyle has apparently turned down a knighthood for his contribution that those niggling doubts start prodding at your conscience.

It is, undeniably, a system founded on privilege and inequality. Boyle has not used his refusal as a platform for political statement, only commenting on Radio 4's Front Row that: "I'm very proud to be an equal citizen, and I think that's what the opening ceremony was actually about." There seems to me to be a great deal of courage in that remark and a reminder of what integrity means. For those of us who experienced the unfamiliar glow of patriotism and perhaps even a new-found fondness for the Queen over the summer, it can leave us feeling a little uncomfortable.

Seeing the names of so many of our medal winners on the honours list makes it harder this year to argue against it. Bradley Wiggins has said he won't be expecting people to call him Sir but he hasn't refused the title, and it would be churlish to suggest he should – most would agree that he has earned it. I'm less enthusiastic about the same honour going to Michael Heller, a businessmen who also happens to be a significant Tory donor, or Hector Sants, former head of the Financial Services Authority, accused of being "asleep at the wheel" during the crash, but then I don't get to decide who is deserving and who is not.

And isn't that, for most of us, the biggest problem with the honours system? We'll object if it's too obviously politicised, but we don't mind it as long as it's doing nice things that we agree with, like rewarding teachers, charity workers and Paralympians. It's only when someone like Boyle quietly points out that the whole business is actually the antithesis of democracy that we might be obliged to stop and question whether there's a better way of recognising excellence than with outdated titles, particularly those that reinforce social division.

I'd rather have seen Danny Boyle knighted for his Olympic contribution than some of the suits behind the scenes, but I admire him as much for taking a stand on this as for his work this summer. He made us reflect then on what it means to be British, citizen or otherwise. And he's done it again now.

All the knights, dames, commanders and members of the British Empire in the 2013 New Year honours list

KNIGHTS BACHELOR

Charles Benedict Ainslie, CBE. Finn Sailor. For services to Sailing. (Cornwall)

David John Brailsford, CBE. Performance director, British Cycling. For services to Cycling and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Derbyshire)

David Whitlock Tanner, CBE. Performance director, British Rowing. For services to Rowing and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Middlesex)

Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE. Cyclist. For services to Cycling. (Lancashire)

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

DBE

Mrs Sarah Joanne Storey, OBE. Cyclist. For services to Para-Cycling. (Greater Manchester)

CBE

Miss Jessica Ennis, MBE. Heptathlete. For services to Athletics. (South Yorkshire)

Mohamed Farah. Athlete. For services to Athletics. (London)

Miss Katherine Jane Grainger, MBE. Rower. For services to Rowing. (Berkshire)

Miss Victoria Louise Pendleton, MBE. Cyclist. For services to Cycling. (Cheshire)

David Russell Weir, MBE. Wheelchair Athlete. For services to Athletics. (London)

OBE

Ms Sophie Margaret Christiansen, MBE. Para-Equestrian. For services to Equestrianism. (Berkshire)

Miss Charlotte Dujardin. Equestrian. For services to Equestrianism. (Gloucestershire)

Jason Francis Kenny, MBE. Cyclist. For services to Cycling. (Greater Manchester)

Andrew Murray. Tennis Player. For services to Tennis. (London)

Miss Eleanor Mary Simmonds, MBE. Swimmer. For services to Paralympic Sport. (West Glamorgan)

Miss Laura Trott. Cyclist. For services to Cycling. (Hertfordshire)

MBE

Miss Nicola Adams. Boxer. For services to Boxing. (West Yorkshire)

Miss Jessica-Jane Applegate. Swimmer. For services to Swimming. (Norfolk)

Timothy Mark Baillie. Slalom Canoeist. For services to Canoeing. (Nottinghamshire)

Miss Natasha Baker. Para-Equestrian. For services to Equestrianism. (Middlesex)

Miss Laura Bechtolsheimer. Equestrian. For services to Equestrianism. (Gloucestershire)

Scott Brash. Equestrian. For services to Equestrianism. (Tweeddale)

Miss Danielle Brown. Archer. For services to Archery. (Shropshire)

Malcolm Brown. Olympic Triathlon Performance manager. For services to Triathlon and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (West Yorkshire)

Alistair Edward Brownlee. Triathlete. For services to Triathlon. (West Yorkshire)

Steven James Burke. Cyclist. For services to Cycling. (Lancashire)

Michael Bushell. Wheelchair Athlete. For services to Athletics. (Shropshire)

Luke Campbell. Amateur Boxer. For services to Boxing. (East Riding of Yorkshire)

Peter Charles. Showjumper. For services to Equestrianism. (Hampshire)

Miss Hannah Cockroft. Athlete. For services to Athletics. (West Yorkshire)

Mark Colbourne. Cyclist. For services to Cycling. (Monmouthshire)

Ian Coley. Team manager, British Shooting. For services to Target Shooting and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Gloucestershire)

William James Gray Connell. Performance director, British Equestrian Federation. For services to Equestrianism and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Leicestershire)

Miss Katherine Copeland. Rower, Lightweight Women's Double Scull. For services to Rowing. (Durham)

Josef Craig. Swimmer. For services to Paralympic Sport. (Tyne and Wear)

Mrs Deborah Criddle. Para-Equestrian. For services to Equestrianism. (Somerset)

Aled Sion Davies. Discus Athlete. For services to Athletics. (Cardiff)

Neil Fachie. Cyclist. For services to Para-Cycling. (Greater Manchester)

Jonathan Fox. Swimmer. For services to Swimming. (Cornwall)

Miss Heather Frederiksen. Swimmer. For services to Swimming. (Cheshire)

Miss Helen Glover. Rower, Women's Pairs. For services to Rowing. (Berkshire)

Alex Gregory. Rower, Men's Fours. For services to Rowing. (Oxfordshire)

Paul Arthur Hall. National Technical Support Coach, British Gymnastics. For services to Gymnastics and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Cambridgeshire)

Carl Hester. Equestrian. For services to Equestrianism. (Gloucestershire)

Philip Hindes. Cyclist. For services to Cycling. (Greater Manchester)

Miss Sophie Hannah Marguerite Hosking. Rower, Lightweight Women's Double Scull. For services to Rowing. (London)

David John Howlett. Coach, British Sailing. For services to Sailing and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Hampshire)

Anthony Hughes. National Performance manager, Disability Sport Wales. For services to Paralympic Sport and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (The Vale of Glamorgan)

Oliver Hynd. Swimmer. For services to Swimming. (Nottinghamshire)

Ms Jade Jones. Taekwondo Athlete. For services to Taekwondo. (Greater Manchester)

Anthony Joshua. Amateur Boxer. For services to Boxing. (London)

Peter Kennaugh. Cyclist. For services to Cycling. (Isle of Man)

Miss Danielle King. Cyclist. For services to Cycling. (Hampshire)

Mrs Mary Elizabeth King. Equestrian. For services to Equestrianism. (Warwickshire)

Miss Helena Lucas. Keelboat Sailor. For services to Sailing. (Hampshire)

Craig Maclean. Cycling Pilot. For services to Cycling and Paralympic Sport. (Cheshire)

Benjamin Maher. Showjumper. For services to Equestrianism. (Hertfordshire)

Robert McCracken. Performance director, British Amateur Boxing Association. For services to Boxing and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Essex)

Edward Daniel McKeever. Kayaker. For services to Kayaking. (Buckinghamshire)

Nigel Patrick Murray. Paralympic Boccia Player. For services to Boccia. (Warwickshire)

Jonathan Peacock. Sprinter. For services to Athletics. (Cambridgeshire)

Ms Josie Rachel Pearson. Discus Athlete. For services to Athletics. (Herefordshire)

Miss Pamela Lillian Relph. Rower, Mixed Coxed Four. For services to Rowing. (Buckinghamshire)

Miss Naomi Riches. Rower, Mixed Coxed Four. For services to Rowing. (Buckinghamshire)

James Roe. Rower, Mixed Coxed Four. For services to Rowing. (Warwickshire)

Miss Joanna Rowsell. Cyclist. For services to Cycling. (Greater Manchester)

Gregory James Rutherford. Long Jumper. For services to Athletics. (Hertfordshire)

David Smith. Rower, Mixed Coxed Four. For services to Rowing. (Inverness-shire)

Louis Antoine Smith. Gymnast. For services to Gymnastics. (London)

Miss Heather Mary Stanning. Rower, Women's Pairs. For services to Rowing. (Berkshire)

Etienne Stott. Slalom Canoeist. For services to Canoeing. (Nottinghamshire)

Paul Anthony Thompson. Coach, British Rowing. For services to Rowing and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London)

Miss Lily Van Den Broecke. Cox. For services to Rowing and Paralympic Sport. (Durham)

Mrs Anna Rose Watkins. Rower. For services to Rowing. (Berkshire)

Ms Sophie Wells. Para-Equestrian. For services to Equestrianism. (Nottinghamshire)

Richard Whitehead. Sprinter. For services to Athletics. (Nottinghamshire)

Robin Williams. British Olympic Rowing Coach. For services to Rowing. (Oxfordshire)

Peter Robert Russell Wilson. Double Trap Shooter. For services to Shooting. (Dorset)

ORDER OF THE COMPANIONS OF HONOUR

CH

Sebastian Newbold Baron Coe, KBE. Chair, LOCOG. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Surrey)

Professor Peter Ware Higgs. Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Edinburgh. For services to Physics. (Edinburgh)

KNIGHTS BACHELOR

Professor George Thomas Berwick, CBE. Headteacher, Ravens Wood School, Bromley, Kent. For services to Education. (Leigh on Sea, Essex)

Quentin Saxby Blake, CBE. Illustrator. For services to Illustration. (London)

Professor Keith Burnett, CBE, FRS. Vice-Chancellor, University of Sheffield. For services to Science and Higher Education. (Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

Professor Ian David Diamond, FRSE. Principal and vice-Chancellor, University of Aberdeen. For services to Social Science and Higher Education. (Aberdeen)

Kenneth Henry Grange, CBE. Industrial Designer. For services to Design. (London)

Michael Aron Heller. Philanthropist. For charitable services. (London)

Peter Gerard Hendy, CBE. Commissioner, Transport for London. For services to Transport and the community. (Bath, Somerset)

Bernard Hogan-Howe, QPM. Commissioner, Metropolitan Police. For services to Policing. (London)

John Mark Nicholas Leighton. Director general, National Galleries of Scotland. For services to Art. (Edinburgh)

Martin James Narey. Ministerial Adviser on Adoption. For services to Vulnerable People. (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

Robert Stephen O'Brien, CBE. Chairman, Barts Health NHS Trust. For services to Healthcare and to the community in London. (Braintree, Essex)

Professor David Neil Payne, CBE, FRS. Director, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton. For services to Photonics Research and Applications. (Southampton)

Hector William Hepburn Sants. Formerly chief executive Officer, Financial Services Authority. For services to Financial Services and Regulation. (Oxfordshire)

Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd. Member of Parliament for Aldridge Brownhill. For public service. (Walsall, West Midlands)

Martin Gregory Smith. Philanthropist. For charitable services to Education, the Arts and Science. (Oxford, Oxfordshire)

Christopher Stone. Executive Headteacher, The Arthur Terry and Stockland Green Schools, Birmingham. For services to Education. (Atherstone, West Midlands)

Professor Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, DL. Chichele Professor of the History of War, All Souls Oxford. For services to the Ministry of Defence. (Biggar, Lanarkshire)

Professor Simon Charles Wessely. For services to Military Healthcare and to Psychological Medicine. (London)

Nicholas Stephen Williams. Formerly Principal of The BRIT School, Croydon. For services to Education. (London)

David Hugh Wootton. Lord Mayor of London. For services to Legal Business, Charity and the City of London. (Kent)

Dr Hossein Yassaie. Chief executive Officer, Imagination Technologies Group. For services to Technology and Innovation. (Kings Langley, Hertfordshire)

ORDER OF THE BATH

DCB

Mrs Ursula Brennan. Permanent secretary, Ministry of Justice. For public and voluntary service. (London)

KCB

Jonathan Evans. For services to Defence. (London)

Robert James Rogers. Clerk of the House and chief executive, House of Commons. For parliamentary and public service. (Blakemere, Herefordshire)

CB

Jeremy John Beeton. Director-General, Government Olympic Executive. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Staindrop, Durham)

Miss Mridul Hegde. Director, Financial Stability, HM Treasury. For services to the Stabilisation of the British Banking System. (London)

Trevor John Llanwarne. Government Actuary. For services to the Actuarial Profession and Public Finances and to Public Service Pension Reform. (Sevenoaks, Kent)

Stephen Augustus Lovegrove. Chief executive, Shareholder Executive. For services to the Government as Shareholder. (London)

Oswyn George Paulin. Head of Government Legal Service, Northern Ireland Executive. For services to Government in Northern Ireland and voluntary service through the Scout Association. (Belfast)

Mrs Alison Saunders. Chief Crown Prosecutor for London, Crown Prosecution Service. For services to Law and Order especially after the 2011 London Riots. (London)

Dr Michael William Weightman. Her Majesty's chief Nuclear Inspector, Office for Nuclear Regulation, Health and Safety Executive. For services to the Improvement of Nuclear Safety. (Chester, Cheshire)

ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER

KCVO

Charles James Dugdale The Lord Crathorne. Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire.

Martin Dunne. Lord-Lieutenant of Warwickshire.

Capt John David Bingham Younger, LVO. Lord-Lieutenant of Tweeddale.

CVO

Roy Thomas Brown, LVO. Deputy Property Services director, London Palaces, Royal Household.

Jonathan Mark Marsden, LVO. Director of the Royal Collection and Surveyor of The Queen's Works of Art.

Mrs Miriam Ray Watts, LVO. Formerly head of Personnel and Administration to the Household of The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall.

LVO

Clive Alderton. Formerly private secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall.

Nicholas Robert Hugh John Hall. Senior director, HSBC Global Asset Management.

Mrs Rosemary Hamer. Deputy private secretary to The Earl and Countess of Wessex.

Mrs Heather Jane Hancock. Formerly Trustee, The Prince's Trust.

Patrick Richard Harverson. Communications secretary to The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall.

Lt Col Patrick Roy Holcroft, OBE, DL. Trustee, The Grenadier Guards Regimental Trust.

Mrs Catherine Mary Jones, MVO. Personnel Officer, Royal Household.

Air Vice-Marshal Richard Henry Kyle, CB, MBE. Gentleman Usher to The Queen.

Lt Col Alexander Fergus Matheson Of Matheson. Yr., secretary, Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood.

Anthony James Moxon Lowther-Pinkerton, MVO, MBE. Private secretary and Equerry to The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Henry of Wales.

Brian Alan Ernest Stanley, MVO, RVM. Stud Groom, Royal Paddocks, Hampton Court Palace.

David John Wilson, MVO. Farm manager, Duchy Home Farm.

Dhruv Manmohan Sawhney. Formerly chairman, International Liaison Group of The Duke of Edinburgh's Commonwealth Study Conferences.

MVO

Mrs Alison Jane Burke, MBE. Formerly Personal assistant to The private secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall.

Leslie Edwin Chappell, RVM. House manager and assistant to the Master of the Household to The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall.

Andrew Michael Fiddaman. Formerly manager director, The Prince of Wales's Youth Business International.

Ian Michael Grant. Production Controller, Royal Collection Enterprises.

Mrs Margaret Jean Haines. Lieutenancy Officer, Berkshire.

Chief Inspector Vincent John Hoar. Metropolitan Police. For services to Royalty Protection.

Inspector Richard Johnathon Lett. Metropolitan Police. For services to Royalty Protection.

Miss Alison Flora MacMillan. Deputy director of Protocol and assistant Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps.

Mrs Jacqueline Meakin, RVM. Dresser to The Duchess of Cornwall.

Mrs Clara Pearce. Assistant Treasurer, Household of The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall.

Superintendent John Greg Peters. Formerly director for Strategic Partnerships and Heritage, Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Christopher Roy Stevens. Superintendent of the Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace.

Rustom Tata. Partner, DMH Stallard.

ROYAL VICTORIAN MEDAL

Bar to RVM

Robert William Turvey, RVM. Formerly Sawmill Sales manager, Sandringham Estate.

RVM

Mrs Doreen Elizabeth Fraser. Daily Lady, Palace of Holyroodhouse.

Patrick Greenfield. Facilities Co-ordinator, The Prince's Trust.

John Stuart Heighway. Lay Clerk, St. George's Chapel.

Thomas Lee. Formerly head Warden, Crown Estate, Windsor.

Anthony Charles Martin. Palace Attendant, Windsor Castle.

Miss Frances Anne McCaffery. Principal Attendant, Government House, Wellington, New Zealand.

Arthur Pottinger. General assistant, California Store, Windsor Castle.

Miss Michelle Redpath. Switchboard Operator, Royal Household.

Div Sgt Maj Peter Saul. The Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard.

Stephen Harry Searle. Formerly Forestry manager, Crown Estate, Windsor.

Miss Marion Jennett Wortley. Principal Attendant, Government House, Wellington, New Zealand.

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, CIVIL

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

OBE

Mrs Margaret Pilar Johnson. Group chief executive Officer, Leagas Delaney. For services to the Creative Industries Sector and voluntary services. (London)

Ms Nichola Johnson. For services to Museums and Cultural Heritage. (Norfolk)

Richard Johnson. Head, Scientific Services, Bedfordshire Police. For services to Policing. (Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire)

Mrs Audrey Therese Ardern-Jones. Associate Lecturer, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Cancer Genetics Nursing Care. (Epsom, Surrey)

Mrs Jennifer Mary Gray Jones. For services to the community in Bognor Regis, West Sussex. (Bognor Regis, West Sussex)

Dr Bryan Keating. Entrepreneur. For services to Economic Development in Northern Ireland. (Newtownabbey, Antrim)

Ms Carleen Tina Kelemen. Director, Convergence Partnership Office for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. For services to Social Justice and Economic Inclusion. (South Brent, Devon)

Roger Kelly. Formerly chief executive, Gateshead Council. For services to Local Government and the community in Gateshead and the North East. (Bishop Aukland, Durham)

Mrs Sarah Kennett. Operations Cluster manager, Benefit Integrity, Benefit Centres Directorate. For services to the Delivery of Benefits and to charity. (Ashford, Kent)

Paul Kinkead. Head of Environment and Protection, Michelin plc. For services to Environmental Protection in Northern Ireland. (Lisburn, Antrim)

Mrs Monika Kinley. Art Dealer and Artists' Agent. For services to the Visual Arts. (Plymouth, Devon)

George Alexander Bryson Kynoch. Formerly Deputy chairman, Scottish Conservative Party. For public and political service. (Bloxham, Oxfordshire)

Ms Christina Lamb. Foreign Correspondent. For services to Journalism. (Living Abroad)

Walter Edward Jim Leftwich. Trustee and Deputy chairman, National Association of Clubs for Young People. For services to Young People. (High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire)

Adrian Anthony Lester. Actor. For services to Drama. (London)

Professor Howard Laurence Liddell. Co-Founder, Scottish Ecological Design Association. For services to Ecological Design and charity. (Edinburgh)

Dr Marian Frances Liebmann. For services to Social Justice through Art Therapy and Mediation in Bristol and Overseas. (Bristol)

John Jeremy Lloyd. Screenwriter. For services to British Comedy. (London)

Alexander William MacBeth. Chief executive, Textile Centre of Excellence. For services to Learning and Skills. (Huddersfield, West Yorkshire)

Ms Sunaina Mann. Principal, North East Surrey College of Technology. For services to Further Education. (Great Bookham, Surrey)

Ms Stella McCartney. Fashion Designer. For services to Fashion. (London)

Gordon Lamont McCormack. Chair, Scottish Disability Sport. For services to the Special Olympics and Disability Sport. (Milngavie, Glasgow)

Ewan Gordon McGregor. Actor. For services to Drama and Charity. (London)

Mrs Anne Christine McKillop. Assistant director, Financial Compliance, UK Border Agency, Home Office. For services to the Asylum Population. (Harrogate, North Yorkshire)

Dr Robert McManners, DL. For services to the Heritage of the North East and to the community in Bishop Auckland, County Durham. (Bishop Auckland, Durham)

Rodney Melville. Formerly secretary, the Chequers Trust. For services to Architecture. (Warwick, Warwickshire)

Ms Lynne Middleton. Head, Strategy, MI And Performance, Human Resources, Department for Work and Pensions. For services to Tackling Youth Unemployment. (Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

Dr Vincent Mifsud. Head of Technology (Europe), Cobham plc. For services to the Defence Industry. (Hartfield, East Sussex)

Ms Therese Miller. General Counsel, LOCOG. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Cranleigh, Surrey)

Mrs Eileen Moir. Formerly Executive director of Nursing, Health Improvement Scotland. For services to Nursing and Healthcare. (Selkirk, Roxburgh Ettrick and Lauderdale)

Mrs Audrey Margaret Mooney. Governor, HM Prison Aberdeen, Scottish Prison Service. For services to the Scottish Prison Service. (Banchory, Aberdeenshire)

Leslie Morgan. For services to the Pharmaceutical Industry and to charity. (London)

Miss Julie Cheryl Mudd. Headteacher, Ivel Valley Special School, Bedfordshire. For services to Education. (Sandy, Bedfordshire)

Geoffrey Charles Munn. For services to charitable giving in the UK. (London)

David Munns. Chair, Board of Governors, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy. For services to the Music Industry and charity. (Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire)

Paul Murphy. Chairman, Greater Manchester Police Authority. For services to Policing. (Greater Manchester)

Ms Patricia Myers. Registrar, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. For services to Higher Education. (London)

Keith Nancekievill. Formerly Headteacher, Hinchingbrooke School, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. For services to Education. (Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire)

Miss Caroline Neville. Formerly Executive director, Skills Funding Agency. For services to Further and Higher Education and the Skills Sector. (Cambridgeshire)

Frantisek Jan Nevrkla. Chair, Phonographic Performance Limited. For services to the British Music Industry. (London)

Paul David Newman. For services to voluntary organisations in the UK. (Ross on Wye, Herefordshire)

Mrs Olive Newton. For services to Equality and Human Rights Issues and to the community in Neath, Port Talbot. (Pontardawe, Swansea)

John Nicholson. Formerly Project Sponsor and Programme Executive, Olympic Delivery Authority. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Southport, Merseyside)

Paul Thomas Noon. General secretary, Prospect. For services to Employment Relations and Sustainable Development. (Kent)

Councillor Melvyn Ernest John Nott. Leader, Bridgend County Borough Council. For services to the community and to Local Government. (Sarn, Bridgend)

Mrs Margaret Ann Nowell. Headteacher, St. Thomas's Centre Pupil Referral Unit, Blackburn with Darwen Council. For services to Education. (Clitheroe, Lancashire)

Dr Robert Harvey Oakley. For services to Health Sport and Charity in Bedford. (Bedfordshire)

Mrs Edwina Judith Simpson Olby. For services to the Riding for the Disabled Association in Yorkshire.

Ian James O'Neill. Legacy Policy manager, Government Olympic Executive. For services to the Legacy of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London)

Dr Miles Michael Parker. Director, Strategic Evidence and Analysis, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. For services to Improving Government Science. (Fowlmere, Cambridgeshire)

Mrs Margaret Edwards-Parton. Sector Skills Specialist, PA Consulting. For services to the Life Sciences Industry. (Shropshire)

Ms Anna Payne. Weymouth and Portland manager, UK Wide Operations, Government Olympic Executive. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London)

David Peacop. Head of Logistics, CLM. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Fleet, Hampshire)

Lady Julia Pender. For services to the community in Kent. (Deal, Kent)

David Charles Penlington. Ministry of Defence. For services to the Armed Forces particularly in Support of Afghanistan Operations. (Gloucestershire)

Gerry Pennell. Chief Information Officer, LOCOG. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Macclesfield, Cheshire)

Mrs Tracey April Pickin. Assistant director, Public Bodies Group, HM Revenue and Customs, London. For services to Tax Compliance. (Lighthome, Warwickshire)

Ms Isobel Anne Poole. Formerly Sheriff. For services to Justice in Scotland and the community in Edinburgh. (Edinburgh)

Professor David Porteous, FRSE. Professor of Human Genetics and molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh. For services to Science. (Edinburgh)

Dr Wyn Price. Head of Emergencies, Welsh Government. For services to Civil Contingency and Emergency Planning in Wales. (Pontycymmer, Bridgend)

Alan Poyner Pritchard. Formerly Headteacher, Cyfarthfa High School, Merthyr Tydfil. For services to Education in Wales. (Caerphilly)

Professor James Ivor Prosser. Personal Chair in Microbiology, University of Aberdeen. For services to Environmental Science. (Ellon, Aberdeenshire)

Mrs Daphne Vivienne Pullen. Chair CLIC Sargent, For charitable services. (Warminster, Wiltshire)

Col Sylvia Nina Quayle, TD. For voluntary service to SSAFA Forces Help in Shropshire. (Shropshire)

Professor Mala Rao. For services to Public Health in the UK and Overseas. (Colchester, Essex)

Mrs Amanda Jayne Reddin. Head National Coach, British Gymnastics. For services to Sport. (Liverpool, Merseyside)

Stephen Regel. Principal Psychologist, Nottingham. For services to Victims of Trauma. (Nottingham, Nottinghamshire)

Dr Richard Reid. Master Stone and Wood Carver. For services to Heritage and Restoration. (York, North Yorkshire)

Mervyn Richards. For services to Building Information Modelling and to the Construction Industry. (St Albans, Hertfordshire)

Mrs Kathryn Elizabeth Riddle. Chair, NHS North of England and Pro-Chancellor, University of Sheffield. For services to the NHS and to Higher Education. (Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

Mrs Sue Riddlestone. Co-Founder, BioRegional. For services to Sustainable Business and to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Surrey)

Dr Edward Bruce Ritson. Chair, Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems. For services to Alcohol Research. (Edinburgh)

Ashley Hugh Roberts. Deputy head, Automotive Unit, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. For services to the UK Automotive Industry. (Kent)

Professor Muriel Anita Robinson. Vice-Chancellor, Bishop Grosseteste University. For services to Higher Education. (Lincoln, Lincolnshire)

Andrew Michael Robson. For services to the game of Bridge and to Charity. (London)

Mrs Catherine Rock. Chair, Association of Forensic Radiography. For Services to Forensic Radiography. (Huddersfield, West Yorkshire)

Alvar Nigel Rowe. President and chairman, Sail Training International. For services to charitable services. (Staines, Middlesex)

Richard Graham St. John Rowlandson. Philanthropist. For services to charity and to the community in Hertfordshire. (Harpenden, Hertfordshire)

Martin Sadler. Director of Cloud and Security Lab, Hewlett Packard Laboratories. For services to Science. (Stoke Gifford, Bristol)

Timothy James Sainsbury. Chair of Trustees, Home-Start UK. For services to Children and Families. (London)

John Francis Sanderson. For services to the Horseracing Industry. (York, North Yorkshire)

Professor Bhupinder Kaur Sandhu. Professor of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Bristol Royal Hospital, South West. For services to Paediatric Medicine. (Clifton, Bristol)

Ms Jennifer Saunders. Chief executive, National Energy Action. For services to the Fuel Poor and voluntary service through the Chesshire Lehmann Fund. (Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland)

James Niall Scott. Founder, The Mark Scott Foundation. For services to Community Relations and Young People in Scotland. (Glasgow)

Ms Patricia Scriven. Senior manager, NOMS Headquarters. For services to HM Prison Service. (Rugby, Warwickshire)

Dr Cynthia Kit Man Shaw. Ministry of Defence. For services to the Armed Forces particularly in Support of Libyan Operations. (London)

Denys Shortt. Founder, DCS Europe plc and lately Chair, Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership. For services to the Economy in the West Midlands. (Broadway, Worcestershire)

Mrs Teresa Sienkiewicz. Director, KPMG. For services to the Accountancy and Pensions Professions. (Epsom, Surrey)

Antony George Sims. Director, 2012 Delivery, UK Trade and Investment, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. For services to Industry through the British Business Embassy. (Staines, Surrey)

Graham Coleman-Smith. (GRAHAM SMITH). For services to the Voluntary and Charitable Giving Sector in the United Kingdom. (Norwich, Norfolk)

Michael Smith. Chief executive and managing director, Titanic Quarter Ltd. For services to Economic Development and Urban Regeneration in Belfast. (Bangor, Down)

Christopher Burnaby Starr. Chair, Forestry Regulation Task Force. For services to British Forestry and Forestry Education. (Penrith, Cumbria)

Ms Norma Stephenson. President, UNISON and Member, National Executive Committee, Labour Party. For public and political service. (Durham)

Mrs Moira Elizabeth Tattersall. Principal, Carlisle College. For services to Further Education. (Carlisle, Cumbria)

Mrs Carol Taylor. Director of Development and Research, National Institute of Adult Continuing Education. For services to Adult Learning. (Matlock, Derbyshire)

Councillor Sharon Taylor. Leader, Stevenage Borough Council and Deputy Chair, Local Government Association. For services to Local Government. (Stevenage, Hertfordshire)

Professor Sandra Thomas. Head of Foresight, Government Office for Science. For services to Government Science Policy. (Polegate, East Sussex)

Ms Jane Clare Todd. Chief executive, Nottingham City Council. For services to Local Government in Nottingham. (Nottinghamshire)

Professor Janet Todd. President, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. For services to Higher Education and Literary Scholarship. (Cambridgeshire)

Ms Jean Veronica Tomlin. Director of Human Resources, Workforce and Accreditation, LOCOG. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London)

Christopher Townsend. Commercial director, LOCOG. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London)

Professor Janet Treasure. Psychiatrist, Eating Disorder Unit, London Maudsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. For services to People with Eating Disorders. (Faversham, Kent)

Michael Cyril Truran. For voluntary services to Bioscience. (Witney, Oxfordshire)

Mrs Catherine Grace Turner. Formerly consultant Forensic Scientist. Forensic Science Service. For services to the Criminal Justice System and the Victims of Crime. (Wetherby, West Yorkshire)

Wilfred Ainsworth Walker. For services to the Promotion and Development of live Black Music. (London)

Kevin Waller. Senior Avoidance Investigator, Anti-Avoidance Group, HM Revenue and Customs, London. For services to Tax Compliance and the Tax Profession. (London)

Mrs Lesley Margaret Walter. Headteacher, Philip Green Memorial School and Governor, Middle School, Wimborne, Dorset. For services to Special Educational Needs. (Wimborne, Dorset)

Nicholas George Warren. For services to the voluntary sector in the United Kingdom. (Hope Valley, Derbyshire)

Howard James Cowen Wells. Vice-Chair, Sport and Recreation Alliance. For services to Sport Administration. (Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire)

Michael Frederick Wells. Chair, Lochs and Glens Holidays. For services to the Tourism Industry and to charity. (Beaulieu, Hampshire)

Councillor Clare Whelan, DL. Member, London Borough of Lambeth. For services to Local Government in London. (London)

Ms Erica Whyman. Chief executive, Northern Stage. For services to Theatre in the UK. (Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear)

Brett Harris Wigdortz. Chief executive, Teach First. For services to Education. (London)

Professor Richard David Wilding. Professor and Chair in Supply Chain Strategy, Cranfield School of Management. For services to Business. (Rugby, Warwickshire)

Professor John David Williams. Formerly Professor of Medicine, Cardiff University. For services to Patients with Renal Disease in Wales. (Cardiff)

Andrew David Wiseman. For public and political service. (London)

Professor Alan Richard Woodside. Director, Transport and Road Assessment Centre, University of Ulster. For services to Higher Education and Highway Engineering in Northern Ireland. (Lisburn, Antrim)

Andrew James Worthington, MBE. Chair, North West Steering Group, London 2012. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Mold, Flintshire)

Ms Sylvia Yates. Formerly Executive director, Sheffield City Region. For services to Sheffield City Region and Humber Regeneration. (Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

Robert Charles Yeomans. Formerly Headteacher, St. John's Primary School, Walsall. For services to Education. (Walsall, West Midlands)

Mrs Joyce Young. Owner, By Storm Ltd. For services to the Textile Industry and the community in Glasgow. (Bearsden, Glasgow)

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Ms Ruth Abrahams. For services to the voluntary and community sector in Newcastle upon Tyne. (Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear)

Dr Nellie Turbyne Adjaye. Consultant Paediatrician, Maidstone, Kent. For services to Child Health and Protection. (Kent)

Miss Cherry Alexander. Head of International Competition, UK Athletics. For service to Sport. (Birmingham, West Midlands)

Robert James Alexander. For voluntary and community service in Northern Ireland. (Larne, Antrim)

Colin Appleyard. For services to Motorcycle Sport. (Keighley, West Yorkshire)

David Arnold. Chair, London Lay Observers Panel for Prisoner Escort and Custody Services. For services to the Criminal Justice System.

John Arnold. President, English Schools Table Tennis Association, National Council for School Sport. For services to School Sport. (Wakefield, West Yorkshire)

Michael Newstead Arthur. For services to the community in Epsom and Ewell Surrey. (Epsom, Surrey)

Mrs Connie Marguerite Baines. For services to the community in Bridgnorth, Shropshire. (Bridgnorth, Shropshire)

Mrs Susan Elizabeth Mary Balchin. For services to the community in Berkshire. (Wokingham, Berkshire)

Richard Kenneth Baldwin. For services to Sport and Recreation. (Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire)

Dr Margaret Rose Stevenson Barker. Founder, Dorchester Poverty Action Group and The Hub. For services to Homeless and Underprivileged People in Dorchester. (Dorchester, Dorset)

Mrs Valerie Barker. For services to the community of the Mixenden Social Housing Estate, Halifax. (West Yorkshire)

John Henry Barnes. For services to the community in Birmingham West Midlands. (Solihull, West Midlands)

Mrs June Rosemary Barnes. For services to the community in Frome, Somerset. (Frome, Somerset)

John Henry Batchelor. Illustrator. For services to IIlustration. (Wimborne, Dorset)

Brian Beale. Councillor, Southminster. For services to Local Government in Essex. (Maldon, Essex)

David John Beardsall. Retained Watch manager in Charge, Nottinghamshire and City of Nottingham Fire and Rescue Authority. For Services to Local Government. (Retford, Nottinghamshire)

Thomas George Beech. For services to the community in North Staffordshire. (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire)

Michael Henderson-Begg. For services to the City of London Corporation and to the community in London. (Surlingham, Norfolk)

Miss Nicola Benedetti. Violinist. For services to Music and to charity. (London)

John Stanley Bourlet Bennett. For services to the community in Worcester. (Worcestershire)

Dr Cheryle June Berry. For services to Education Health and charity in Lincolnshire and Derbyshire. (Chesterfield, Derbyshire)

Harold Kebir Berry. For services to the community in Pontefract West Yorkshire. (Pontefract, West Yorkshire)

Ms Tracey Berry. Family Support Teacher, Forthview Primary School, Edinburgh. For services to Education. (Corstorphine, Edinburgh)

Miss Joyce Andree Best. For voluntary services to Young People in Ulster through Girl Guiding.

Ms Deborah Bestwick. Director, Oval House. For services to Drama. (London)

Dr Colin Leonard Bird, JP. For services to the communities in Eastleigh and Southampton, Hampshire. (Eastleigh, Hampshire)

Timothy Arthur Bird. Social Fund manager, Jobcentre Plus. For services to Jobseekers with Mental Health Issues and voluntary service to Seaview Primary School. (South Shields, Tyne and Wear)

John Theodore Blackburn. Founder and managing director, Canterbury Bears. For services to Manufacturing and Export. (Canterbury, Kent)

Miss Pamela Beatrice Mary Blakeman. Local Historian. For services to Heritage in Ely, Cambridgeshire. (Ely, Cambridgeshire)

Albert William Bleach. For services to the community in Nyewood West Sussex. (Petersfield, Hampshire)

David Blower. For services to Tenant Engagement in Fleetwood Lancashire. (Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire)

Anthony Boden. Prison Officer, HM Young Offenders' Institute, Feltham. For voluntary services to HM Prison Service and to Young People in Ealing. (Kingston, Surrey)

Mrs Alison Grace Borgese. Assistant head, All Saints Junior School, Maidenhead, Berkshire. For services to Education. (Slough, Berkshire)

Michael Stanley Both. Director of Engineering and Technical Operations, Race.Tech. For services to the Economy. (Farnborough, Hampshire)

Charles Bryan Bottomley. Foster Carer and Adoptive Parent, Hull. For services to Children and Families. (Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire)

Mrs Patricia Bottomley. Foster Carer and Adoptive Parent, Hull. For services to Children and Families. (Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire)

Francis Christopher Bourne. Formerly Non-Executive director, Trinity House and chairman, Joint Strategic Board for the General Lighthouse Authorities. For services to the Maritime Industry. (Cobham, Surrey)

Mrs Helen Elisabeth Bowles. Policy Adviser and Deputy CEO, GuildHE. For services to Higher Education. (Sevenoaks, Kent)

Mrs Joanna Margaret Boyd. Women's Officer, Derry City Council. For services to Local Government in Northern Ireland. (Londonderry)

Mrs Jean Kathleen Ann Bradford. Founder, South Devon Seabird Trust. For services to Animal Welfare. (Teignmouth, Devon)

David Bradley. Principal Officer, Northern Ireland Prison Service. For services to Vulnerable Prisoners and voluntary service to the Royal British Legion. (Londonderry)

Francis Brady. Managing director, La Mon Hotel and Country Club. For services to Tourism and Hospitality in Northern Ireland. (Ballycastle, Antrim)

Phelim John Joseph Brady. Deputy Principal, Farnborough College of Technology. For services to Further Education. (Guildford, Surrey)

John Arthur Brannigan. Formerly director of Investigations, Historical Enquiries Team. For services to Policing and to the community in Northern Ireland. (Belfast)

Peter Thomas Simmons Breene. Chair, Board of Governors, Finaghy Primary School. For voluntary service to Education in Northern Ireland. (Dunmurry, Belfast)

Dr Colette Bridgman. Consultant in Dental Public Health, Manchester, North West England. For services to Dentistry and Oral Health. (Stockport, Cheshire)

Richard John Brighton. Newsagent. For services to the News Delivery Trade. (Reading, Berkshire)

Dr Jackson Carl Kirkman-Brown. Scientist, Birmingham Women's Hospital. For services to Reproductive Medical Science.

Peter Alan Brown. Formerly assistant Principal International, Chichester College. For services to Further Education. (Chichester, West Sussex)

Miss Dorothy Mary Buchanan. Chair of Governors, The Blue Coat Church of England Schools (Aided) Infant and Junior Schools' Federation, Walsall. For services to Education. (Walsall, West Midlands)

Dr Melissa Hardie-Budden. For services to Heritage and the Arts in West Cornwall. (Cornwall)

Professor Oscar Peter Buneman, FRS. Professor of Database Systems, University of Edinburgh. For services to Data Systems and Computing.

John Burton, DL. For political and voluntary service to the community in Sedgfield Co Durham. (Dunton Green, Kent)

John Geoffrey Burton. For services to Church Bell-ringing in North Staffordshire. (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire)

Martin William Ledger Burton. For services to the Charity Sector in the West Midlands. (Malvern, Worcestershire)

Peter John Bury. Spectrum Project director, Ofcom. For services to Spectrum and to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London)

George Wentworth Butler. Dairy Farmer. For services to Agriculture and to charity. (Haywards Heath, West Sussex)

Mrs Ann Elizabeth Cable. For voluntary service to St. John Ambulance in London. (Enfield, Middlesex)

Martin Edward Cahill. For services to the community in Earls Barton Northamptonshire. (Northamptonshire)

William Andrew Cambridge. Chief Scientist, Communications and Integrated Systems, Ultra Electronics. For services to the Defence Industry. (Richmond, Surrey)

Mrs Vanessa Cameron. Chief executive, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London. For services to Psychiatry. (London)

Daniel Douglas Kenneth Campbell. Master Whisky Distiller, Tomatin Distillery. For services to the Whisky Industry and to the community in Strathdearn, Inverness-shire. (Inverness-shire)

Mrs Elizabeth Emma Campbell. For voluntary services to Young People in Ulster through Girl Guiding and the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. (Ballymoney, Antrim)

Mrs Gail Campbell. For voluntary service to the Royal British Legion with British Forces Germany. (Living Abroad)

Mrs Sheila Janet Carey. For services to Disability Athletics. (Bedworth, Warwickshire)

Julian Carradice. For services to the Wasdale Mountain Resue Team Cumbria. (Seascale, Cumbria)

Col Stamford James Cartwright, TD. For voluntary service to the West Midland Reserve Forces and Cadets Association. (Hereford, Herefordshire)

Mrs Patricia Chalmers. Formerly Member, Glasgow City Council. For services to Built Heritage in Glasgow. (Glasgow)

John Thomas Chamberlain. For services to the community in Cemaes Anglesey and in Indonesia. (Llansadwrn, Anglesey)

Mrs Doreen Jacqueline Miller-Charlton. Board Member, Miller Ltd. For services to Industry and to International Trade. (Washington, Tyne and Wear)

David George Robert Cherry. Composer and Arranger, Boys' Brigade Marching Bands. For services to Children and Young People. (Hinchley Wood, Surrey)

James Alan Christie. Networks Resource Leader, East Scotland. For services to the Electricity Industry and Customers in Scotland. (Armadale, West Lothian)

Mrs Winifred Joan Clark. Deputy director-General, British Holiday and Home Parks Association. For services to Tourism. (Berkeley, Gloucestershire)

Colin Allen Roger Clarke. For charitable services through The Kilworth Challenge in Leicestershire. (Lutterworth, Leicestershire)

James Nicholas Clarke. Banqueting Operations Co-ordinator, Queen's University Belfast. For services to Higher Education in Northern Ireland. (Castlewellan, Down)

Mrs Jillian Carol Clarke. For services to the community in Sutton Benger, Wiltshire. (Chippenham, Wiltshire)

Mrs Maureen Clarke. Founder, Angels of Hope. For services to People with Ovarian Cancer and their Families. (Craigavon, Armagh)

David John Claxton, LVO, TD. Trustee, Together Trust and Hulme Educational Trust. For services to Education and Disadvantaged Young People in Manchester. (Cheadle, Cheshire)

Dr Timothy Clayton. Formerly Specialist Scientific Adviser. Forensic Science Service. For services to the Criminal Justice System.

Mrs June Cliffe. For services to the community in Sharlston, West Yorkshire. (Wakefield, West Yorkshire)

Mrs Penelope Jane Clough. Co-Founder, Justice for Jane Campaign. For services to the Victims of Violent Crime. (Nelson, Lancashire)

Robert Emile Collins. For services to the Meanwood Valley Urban Farm and to the community in LeedsYorkshire. (Leeds, West Yorkshire)

Mrs Jessie Colquhoun. Formerly Community Nurse, NHS Highland. For services to Healthcare in Ardnamurchan, Argyll. (Kilchoan, Argyll and Bute)

Anthony Ronald Coombes. For services to the community in Gillingham Dorset. (Gillingham, Dorset)

Daryll Charles Cooper. Honours secretary, Department for Education. For services to the Department for Education and service to the community in Walthamstow. (London)

Robert Cooper. Formerly Co-ordinator, Penicuik First Responders. For voluntary service in Penicuik, Midlothian. (Falkirk, Stirling and Falkirk)

Frederick Cordier. Master Ropemaker. For services to Ropemaking. (Chatham, Kent)

Samuel Cordner. Superintendent, Police Service of Northern Ireland. For services to Policing and to the community in South Armagh. (Belfast)

Ian John Craig. Formerly president, The Scottish Beekeepers Association. For services to Beekeeping. (Johnstone, Renfrewshire)

Dr Francis Gibbs Crane. Head of Geography and Duke of Edinburgh's Co-ordinator, Stafford Grammar School. For services to Education. (Staffordshire)

Robert Croft. For services to Cricket. (Swansea)

Patrick Joseph Cronesberry. Founder and Chair, Middlesbrough Disabled Supporters Association. For services for the Disabled in Sport and the community. (Thornaby, North Yorkshire)

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Horace Macdonald Cross. For voluntary service to the Royal British Legion in Norfolk. (Downham Market, Norfolk)

Dr John Locker Crossle. Founder, Crossle Car Company. For services to Engineering and Manufacturing in Northern Ireland. (Holywood, Down)

Julian Michael Crow. Regional manager, West of England, First Great Western. For services to the Rail Industry. (Newton Ferrers, Devon)

Ms Christina Cullen. Player and Coach, Hightown Hockey Club. For services to Sport. (Hightown, Merseyside)

Ms Patricia Cumper. Playwright and Artistic director, Talawa Theatre Company. For services to Black British Theatre. (London)

Patrick Curtis. Senior Officer, Specialist Investigations, Northern Ireland, HM Revenue and Customs. For services to Preventing Fuel Fraud. (Belfast, Antrim)

Mrs Carolyn Anne Darbyshire. District commissioner, Chandlers Ford Scouts, Hampshire. For services to Young People. (Eastleigh, Hampshire)

Mrs Marilyn Margaret Darg. Magistrate, North Somerset Bench. For services to the Administration of Justice. (Somerset)

Eric Charles Darlow. For services to the UK Quarrying Industry. (Wellington, Somerset)

Gareth Wyn Davies. Formerly Clerk, Garw Valley Community Council. For public service and for services to the community in the Garw Valley, Bridgend. (Bridgend)

George Barrie Davies. For voluntary service to St. John Ambulance and the community in Macclesfield. (Macclesfield, Cheshire)

Ms Sally Davis. Formerly managing director, Growing Ambitions. For services to Young People. (Living Abroad)

Mrs Rosalie Joan Dawes. For services to the community and to charity in Worcestershire. (Malvern, Worcestershire)

Ms Brigitte Engelien-Dawson. For services to the communities in Freshford and Bath. (Bath, Somerset)

Gordon John Day. For voluntary services to Rowing and charitable services through the Allan Glen's School Club. (Bishopbriggs, Glasgow)

Dr The Reverend Canon Paul Denby, JP, DL. For services to the community in Greater Manchester. (Bolton, Greater Manchester)

Jack Denness. For services to charity in Medway Kent. (Rochester, Kent)

Mrs Diana Isabel Dishley, JP. Magistrate and Founder, Your Life You Choose. For services to the community in Ealing, West London. (London)

Miss Elizabeth Joyce Doherty. For services to Nursing and Healthcare in Northern Ireland. (Eglinton, Londonderry)

Hamish Donaldson. For services to the community in Haslemere Surrey. (Haslemere, Surrey)

Torin Stuart Douglas. For services to the community in Chiswick West London. (London)

Ian Dowling. Formerly chief Assessor, Parliamentary Assessment Board of the Conservative Party. For political service. (Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk)

Mrs Mhairi McLeod Johnstone Doyle. DWP Operations. For services to Employment and Social Inclusion particularly of Street Workers. (Southport, Lancashire)

Sister Mary Thomas. (Agnes Dunne). For services to St. George's Park Retirement Village in Burgess Hill West Sussex.

Malcolm Dyer. For services to Defence. (London)

David William Edgington. For services to the Industrial Heritage of the Stationary Engine. (Westbury, Wiltshire)

Mrs Jennifer Susan Eitel. Chair, Boards of Governors, Dungannon Nursery and Sperrinview Special Schools. For services to Education in Northern Ireland. (Dungannon, Tyrone)

Mrs Ivy Myrle Ellis. For services to the WRVS at Leicester Royal Infirmary. (Leicestershire)

Mrs Barbara Evans. Team Leader for Learning Support Workers within the Special Educational Needs Curriculum, Carshalton College. For services to Further Education.

Mrs Sheila Dorothy Evans. President, Great Oaks Hospice, Coleford. For charitable services. (Gloucestershire)

Mrs Jennifer Ann Farmer. For services to the Magistracy in the South Lakeland Local Justice Area and to the communities of Skelmesbergh, Selside and Longsleddale in Cumbria. (Kendal, Cumbria)

Gordon Anthony Farrel. Senior Executive Officer, DWP Operations. For public service and services to the community through Community Campus. (Middlesborough, North Yorkshire)

Anis Faruki. For services to charity and to the community in Preston Lancashire. (Preston, Lancashire)

Anthony Rowland Favell. Councillor and Chair, Peak District National Park Authority. For political and public service. (Hope Valley, Derbyshire)

Mrs Deborah Jill Fensome. For services to the community in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. (Harpenden, Hertfordshire)

Dr David Andrew Fenton. Consultant Dermatologist, St. John's Institute of Dermatology, Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital, London. For services to the treatment of Skin and Hair Disorders. (London)

Oliver Michael Fenton. Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield, West Yorkshire. For services to Paediatric Plastic Surgery. (Dewsbury, West Yorkshire)

Mrs Santosh Fenwick. Senior Executive Officer, DWP Operations. For services to Jobseekers in West London.

David Ferguson. Consultant Nurse, (Learning Disabilities and Mental Health), Southern Health Foundation Trust. For services to Nursing. (Hampshire)

Mervyn Ferris. For voluntary service to Young People in County Down through the Scout Association. (Newry, Down)

Mrs Jayne Sharon Field. For services to the Sleaford Concert Band and to the communities in Sleaford and North Kesteven, Lincolnshire. (Sleaford, Lincolnshire)

Dr Stuart Field. Chairman, League of Friends, Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Kent. For services to the NHS. (Canterbury, Kent)

Martyn Gareth Finch. For services to the Cleveland Search and Rescue Team in the North East.

Kevin Findlater. Chief inspector, Central Scotland Police. For services to the Environment and to the community in Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. (Aberfoyle, Stirling and Falkirk)

Mrs Tracey Joy Fisher. For services to Young People through The Duke of Edinburgh's Award in Wirral and to the community in Eastham, Merseyside. (Wirral, Merseyside)

Mrs Kathleen Hilda Ford. Head of Corporate Information Management Department, Avon and Somerset Constabulary. For services to Information Management in Policing. (Portishead, Somerset)

Alan Foster. Chief executive, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust. For services to the NHS.

Peter John Fowler. Market Trader and Former president of the Covent Garden Market Tenants Association. For services to the Food and Catering Industries. (Horton Kirby, Kent)

Professor Peter Fraenkel. Co-Founder and lately chief Technical Officer, Marine Current Turbines Ltd. For services to Marine Energy. (London)

Ms Caryn Franklin. Fashion Commentator and Founder, All Walks Beyond the Catwalk. For services to Diversity in the Fashion Industry. (London)

Mrs Jacqueline Franklin. Foster Carer, Bristol. For services to Children and Families. (Redland, Bristol)

John Alan Franklin. Foster Carer, Bristol. For services to Children and Families. (Redland, Bristol)

Councillor David Fraser. For services to Health and to the community in the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames. (New Malden, Surrey)

Spencer William Freeman. For services to Music and the Arts in Eastbourne East Sussex. (Eastbourne, East Sussex)

Miss Julie Fry. Police Inspector, Hampshire Constabulary. For services to Policing.

Nicholas Fuller. Head of Education, LOCOG. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London)

Albert Furze. Education consultant and lately Headteacher, Bradstow Special Educational Needs School, Broadstairs, Kent. For services to Education. (Broadstairs, Kent)

James Andrew Campbell Gairdner. Formerly Voluntary chief Steward, Wimbledon. For services to Tennis. (London)

Mahendra Gajjar. Officer, Small and Medium Enterprises, London, HM Revenue and Customs. For services to Tax and Duty Fraud Prevention and to the community in Edgware. (Edgware, Middlesex)

Miss Marjorie Galloway. For services to the community in Preston-on-Tees Cleveland. (North Yorkshire)

Mrs Alison Game. Formerly Personal assistant to the Clerk of the House of Commons. For public service. (Tring, Hertfordshire)

Mrs Ivy Winifred Gardiner. For services to Young People and to the community in Wirral, Merseyside. (Wirral, Merseyside)

Martin Fraser Gardner. Programme Co-ordinator, International Conifer Conservation Programme. For services to Horticultural Conservation. (Edinburgh)

Nigel Andrew Garfitt. Director of Villages and Games Services, LOCOG. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Buckinghamshire)

Mrs Janet Marie Gaskell. For services to the Caribbean Carnival and to the community in Leicester. (Leicestershire)

Professor Brian Gates. For services to Interfaith Relations and to the Religious Education Council of England and Wales. (Carnforth, Lancashire)

Councillor Paul Dennis Gittins. For services to the community in Bewdley and as a Community First Responder in Worcestershire. (Bewdley, Worcestershire)

David Glasenbury. Specialist Physical Education Adviser, National Police College, Bramshill. For services to Police Training. (Hook, Hampshire)

Mrs Jean Glynn. Children's Service manager, Health Visiting and School Nursing, Stoke-on-Trent. For services to Healthcare. (Alsager, Cheshire)

Ms Andrea Goodwill. Course Leader, Cleveland College of Art and Design. For services to Further Education. (Redcar, North Yorkshire)

Mrs Coral Lydia Gould. Singing Teacher. For services to Music and the Arts. (Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire)

Mrs Janet Marie Gould. Volunteer, Greater Manchester Police. For services to the community in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside. (Hyde, Cheshire)

Mrs Christine Mary Goult. Formerly head of Higher Education, Cleveland College of Art and Design. For services to Higher Education. (Redcar, North Yorkshire)

Mrs Jennifer Elizabeth Graham. Assistant Speech and Language Therapist manager, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. For services to Speech and Language Therapy in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Sally Campbell-Gray. For services to the Riding for the Disabled Association. (King's Lynn, Norfolk)

Councillor Linda Green. Member, Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council. For services to the community in Tyne and Wear. (Gateshead, Tyne and Wear)

Ms Catherine Greig. General manager, The Travelling Light Theatre Company. For services to Theatre for Young People in Bristol. (Totterdown, Bristol)

Mrs Elaine Griffiths. Music Teacher, Stanley Primary School, Teddington. For services to Education. (Hampton Hill, Middlesex)

Peter Gross. Assistant Headteacher, Enfield Grammar School. For services to Education. (Enfield, Middlesex)

Peter Grubb. Chair of Trustees, Nigeria Health Care Project. For services to Healthcare in Nigeria. (Leeds, West Yorkshire)

James Norman Gundill. For services to Horseracing. (Pontefract, West Yorkshire)

Ms Deborah Hale. Torch Relay Producer, LOCOG. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London)

Mrs Fiona Hall. Member of the European Parliament for UK North East and Leader, Liberal Democrats MEPs. For public and political service. (Alnwick, Northumberland)

Ms Grace Hall. Dwp Operations. For services to Youth Employment in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. (London)

Richard Hallett. Campaigner, Maternity Services. For services to Midwifery and Parents. (Crowborough, East Sussex)

Dr Anita Halliday. Chief executive, St. Paul's Community Development Trust. For services to the community in Balsall Heath, Birmingham. (Birmingham, West Midlands)

Thomas George Hugh Hanlon. For voluntary service to Young People in County Armagh through the Boys' Brigade. (Craigavon, Armagh)

Ms Caroline Alberta Hansford. Founder, Malawi Education Link. For services to Primary Education in Malawi. (Cambridgeshire)

Andrew Darby Harris. For charitable services and for services to the community in Bromsgrove Worcestershire. (Droitwich Spa, Worcestershire)

Mrs Susan Elizabeth Harrison. Formerly director, British Aerosol Manufacturers' Association. For services to Industry and Safe Practices. (Chieveley, Berkshire)

Miss Sarah Catherine Janet Hawken. Actuary, Model Development Unit, Strategy Directorate, DWP. For services to Social Security and the community in Surrey. (Hampshire)

Vincent Thomas Patrick Hayes. Founder, Brick Lane Music Hall. For services to British Music Hall. (Buckhurst Hill, Essex)

Terence James Heard. Co-Founder, UK Mathematics Trust. For services to the Teaching of Mathematics. (London)

Mayer Hersh. For services to Holocaust Education. (Manchester, Greater Manchester)

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Mrs Amanda Heslop. Headteacher, The Wharf Nursery School and Children's Centre, Godalming, Surrey. For services to Education. (Godalming, Surrey)

David Thomas Hickey. Head, Olympic Park Venues and Infrastructure Delivery, LOCOG. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London)

Donald Hickman. For services to the community in Albrighton Shropshire. (Wolverhampton, West Midlands)

Miss Elizabeth Higham. For services to Girlguiding in Bolton Lancashire. (Bolton, Greater Manchester)

Ms Carol Ann Highton. Founder, Brian Shields Trust. For services to Personal Finance and Community Support. (Runcorn, Cheshire)

Anthony Hiles. Foster Carer, Barnardo's Sandcastle Project, West Midlands. For services to Children and Families. (Wolverhampton, West Midlands)

Mrs Muriel Hiles. Foster Carer, Barnardo's Sandcastle Project, West Midlands. For services to Children and Families. (Wolverhampton, West Midlands)

Mrs Deirdre Elizabeth Hilton. Former National president, UK and Irish Dexter Society. For services to the conservation of Dexter cattle in Northern Ireland. (Coleraine, Londonderry)

Phillip Gyles Hodge. Administrative Officer, Central Casework Group, Driver and Vehicle Agency, Swansea, Department for Transport. For services to Reducing Transport Fraud. (Swansea, West Glamorgan)

Timothy Mark Hodgson. For services to Mountain Rescue. (Keswick, Cumbria)

Leslie Hoey. For services to charity in Scotland. (Wishaw, Lanarkshire)

James Michael Holyfield. Formerly Policy manager, Alliance of Sector Skills Councils. For services to Apprenticeships. (London)

Jon Honeysett. Member, Kidsgrove Environmental Watch Response Group. For services to Rail in Kidsgrove. (Kidsgrove, Staffordshire)

Philip Raymond Hopkins. Foster Carer, Dorset County Council. For services to Children and Families. (Sherborne, Dorset)

Mrs Wendy Una Hopkins. Foster Carer, Dorset County Council. For services to Children and Families. (Sherborne, Dorset)

Michael Hourahine. Security manager, 70 Whitehall. For services to the Cabinet Office. (Morden, Surrey)

Mrs Wilhelmina Elizabeth Houston. Staff Officer, College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise, Northern Ireland Executive. For services to Greenmount College and to the community in Ulster. (Ballymena, Antrim)

Martin Hovenden. Special Constable, Sussex Police. For services to Policing. (St Leonard's on Sea, East Sussex)

Mark Hughes. Formerly chief executive Officer, North West Regional Development Agency. For services to Business in the North West. (Warrington, Cheshire)

Mrs Karen Hull. Personal Adviser, Norfolk Careers Service and Connexions Norfolk. For services to Education. (Thetford, Norfolk)

Mrs Inderjeet Hunjan. Head of Access and Widening Participation Team, Leeds Metropolitan University. For services to Higher Education. (Leeds, West Yorkshire)

Mrs Margaret Joy Hunter. For services to Age UK Surrey and to Charity.

Charles Hutchison. Principal, Charles Hutchison Consulting. For services to Health and Safety in Northern Ireland. (Down)

Mrs Sylvia Hyams. For services to charity and to the community in Storrington, West Sussex. (Pulborough, West Sussex)

Stephen Mark I'Anson. Entrepreneur and Pro-Chancellor, Newcastle University. For services to Entrepreneurship, Community Engagement and Higher Education. (Hexham, Northumberland)

Mrs Christine Jackson. Girl Guide Leader, Crook, County Durham. For services to Children and Young People. (Crook, Durham)

Mrs Margaret Eileen Mary Jackson. Founder and Chair, North Somerset Masonic Widows' Association. For services to charity in North Somerset. (Wrington, Somerset)

Dr Mahdi Mabruk Jibani. Consultant Physician, Ysbyty Gwynedd Hospital. For services to Medicine. (Llanfairpwll, Anglesey)

Jeremy Jobson. For services to Defence. (London)

Ms Ann Marjorie Johnson. Nurse Educator, Lecturer and Alzheimer's Campaigner. For services to Healthcare. (Altincham, Cheshire)

Mrs Jillian Lesley Johnson. Artistic director of Concerts, University of Leeds. For services to Higher Education and Music in Leeds. (Leeds, West Yorkshire)

Ms Kim Lorraine Johnson. Regional Delivery manager, Criminal Justice System Efficiency Programme, Crown Prosecution Service. For services to Law and Order. (Northwich, Cheshire)

Michael Johnson. Group Training manager, Gelder Group. For services to Training and Skills. (Lincolnshire)

Mrs Pamela Lesley Johnston. For services to charity and to the community in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. (Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands)

Dr Martin Jones. Chair, Policy Advisory Committee, United Kingdom Accreditation Service. For services to Accreditation. (Cambridgeshire)

Mrs Mary May Jones. For services to Tenants and to the community in Saffron and Neston, Leicester. (Leicestershire)

Mrs Rosemary Diane Jones. Formerly Non-Executive director, NHS Herefordshire. For services to Healthcare. (Herefordshire)

Simon Pugh-Jones. Science Teacher, Writhlington School, Bath. For services to Education. (Frome, Somerset)

Ms Natasha Jones. Head of Citizenship, Ulverston Victoria High School, Cumbria. For services to Education.

Mrs Barbara Judge. Teacher Tutor, South Eastern Regional College. For services to Further Education in Northern Ireland. (Newcastle, Down)

Mrs Marilyn Joy Kelly. For charitable services in Newton Abbot, Devon. (Newton Abbot, Devon)

Mrs Vera Elizabeth Kelso. Lead Midwife, the Southern Health and Social Care Trust. For services to Nursing in Northern Ireland. (Dungannon, Tyrone)

Mrs Carol Kempton. Head of Internal Events, 10 Downing Street. For services to the Prime Minister's Office. (West Wickham, Kent)

Mrs Michaela Butter Keon. For services to the Arts in the East Midlands. (Nottingham, Nottinghamshire)

Adrian Killick. Formerly Youth Worker, Essex County Council. For services to Young People and voluntary service to the community in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex. (Clacton-on-Sea, Essex)

Mrs Frances Marian Kilner. Deputy Chair, Civil Service Lifeboat Fund and DWP Lifeboat Fund Co-ordinator. For services to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. (Merseyside)

Edmund Mervyn Bellamy King. Head of Newspaper Collection, British Library. For services to the British Library.

Miss Florence Mary Kirkby. Vice-chairman, Association of School and College Leaders Associates Committee. For services to Education. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear)

Mrs Josephine Clare Kirkham. For services to the community in Rye, East Sussex. (Rye, East Sussex)

Mrs Judith Mary Kitching. For charitable services in Rudby, North Yorkshire. (Yarm, North Yorkshire)

Mrs Lesley Knighton. Chief Guide commissioner, Midlands Region. For services to Young People. (Lichfield, Staffordshire)

Mrs Sally Ann Kynaston. Higher Officer, Project Co-ordinator, Programmes and Projects, Barnsley. For services to HM Revenue and Customs and to Girl Guiding in Yorkshire South. (Barnsley, South Yorkshire)

Ms Karen Lacey. London 2012 Nations and Regions Group Co-ordinator for the South East, Government Olympic Executive. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Aldershot, Hampshire)

Lt Col Graham John Lawrence. Ministry of Defence. For services to Defence. (Andover, Hampshire)

Mrs Sally Margaret Lee. Founder, Sara Lee Charitable Trust. For services to the community in Hastings, Rother and Rye. (St Leonard's on Sea, East Sussex)

Mrs Dianne Margaret Leeman. Manager, Belfast City Tour Service, Belfast City Council. For services to Local Government and Tourism. (Belfast)

Miss Christine Leon. Head of Chinese Medicinal Plants Authentication and Conservation Centre, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. For services to the UK-China Science Relationship. (Richmond, Surrey)

Mrs Anne Lewis. Assistant District commissioner, Charnwood District Scouts. For services to Children and Young People. (Leicestershire)

Mrs Lucie-Jane Lewis. For services to the Charitable Giving Sector and to the Naomi House Hospice in Hampshire. (Hampshire)

Nicholas Lewis. Formerly Deputy chief executive, South West Regional Development Agency. For services to the Economy in the South West. (Crediton, Devon)

Mrs Susan Rachel Lidington. Founder, Side by Side Theatre Company, Stourbridge. For services to People with Intellectual Disabilities. (Stourbridge, West Midlands)

Dr Anat Karen Liebreich. For services to Education and Horticulture in West London.

Mrs Geraldine Price Linford. For voluntary service to Young People in Northern Ireland through the Girl Guides and Millennium Volunteer Programme. (Ballymena, Antrim)

Mrs Elizabeth Anne Littler. For services to Ice Skating. (Cheshire)

Mrs Elizabeth Littlewood. Head of Healthcare, HMP Full Sutton. For services to Healthcare in the Prison Service.

Mrs Pauline Mercer Litton. For services to Geneaology and Family History. (Harrogate, North Yorkshire)

Derek Neil Louttit. Clinical Lead, Scottish Ambulance Service. For services to the Scottish Ambulance Service and the community in the West of Scotland. (East Kilbride, Lanarkshire)

Ms Jill Love. Creative director, Silver Programme, The Sage Gateshead. For services to Music in the community. (Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear)

Lawrence Daniel Lyle. For services to Archaeology and Local History through the Kent Archaeological Society. (Canterbury, Kent)

Donald Albert Mabey. For voluntary service to the Royal Air Forces Association. (Seaford, East Sussex)

Col John Robert (Ian) Mackenzie, TD. For voluntary service to St. John Ambulance in Northumbria. (Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear)

Mrs Mamie MacLeod. For voluntary services to Save the Children, Stornoway. (Isle of Lewis, Western Isles)

Nigel Main. Head of Special Project Solutions, SELEX Elsag. For services to the Defence Industry. (Essex)

Dr Hariprakash Mamtora. Consultant Radiologist, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, Lancashire. For services to the NHS. (Wilmslow, Cheshire)

Leslie Manson. Executive director of Education, Leisure and Housing, Orkney Islands Council. For services to Scottish Education and the community in Orkney. (Kirkwall, Orkney)

Professor John Marshall. Frost Professor of Ophthalmology, Institute of Ophthalmology in Association with Moorfields Eye Hospital, University of London. For services to Ophthalmology. (Farnborough, Hampshire)

Lady Judy Gordon Martin. Director, Young Person's Concert Foundation. For services to Music and to charity. (Swindon, Wiltshire)

Lt Col Richard Martin. For services to the City of London Corporation. (Southend-on-Sea, Essex)

Mrs Kathleen Mary Masters. For services to Conquest Art in Godalming, Surrey. (Godalming, Surrey)

Douglas Matthews. Literary Indexer. For services to Literature. (Lewes, East Sussex)

Dr Vina Mayor. Chair, Nursing and Midwifery Council Fitness to Practice Panel, Bedfordshire. For services to the NHS. (Flitwick, Bedfordshire)

Ms Tracey McAdam. Manager of Eastleigh College House, Hampshire. For services to Education. (Eastleigh, Hampshire)

Miss Moira McArthur. Headteacher, Sandaig Primary School, Glasgow. For services to Education and the community in Glasgow. (Glasgow)

Mrs Elizabeth McCafferty. Executive Officer, DWP Operations. For services to Jobseekers with Disabilities in Stirling. (Stirling, Stirling and Falkirk)

Mrs Lynn McCafferty. Headteacher, Brucehill Early Education and Childcare Centre, West Dunbartonshire. For services to Education. (West Dunbartonshire, Dunbartonshire)

Dr June McCombie. Senior Research Officer, University of Nottingham. For services to Science. (Nottinghamshire)

Brian McDowell. Voluntary Receptionist, Lagan Valley Island Civic Centre, Lisburn. For voluntary services to the community in Lisburn. (Lisburn, Antrim)

Gerard McElroy, DL. Member, North Lanarkshire Council. For services to Local Government and the community in Lanarkshire. (Cumbernauld, Lanarkshire)

Peter McFall. Member, Independent Monitoring Board, HM Prison Kennet. For services to Criminal Justice. (Liverpool, Merseyside)

Dennis Patrick McKeever. For services to Drama and Music in Northern Ireland. (Craigavon, Armagh)

Howard William (Jasper) McKinney. Assistant director of Student Services, Southern Regional College. For services to Further Education and Student Welfare in Northern Ireland. (Banbridge, Down)

Miss Rachel McLaughlin. Ministry of Defence. For services to Defence. (London)

Dr Ian McMorris. Chairperson of the Board of Governors, Lagan College. For voluntary service to Integrated Education in Northern Ireland. (Belfast)

Charles William McMurray. Treasurer, Building Preservation Trust Movement. For services to Built Heritage and to Conservation in Northern Ireland. (Ballynahinch, Down)

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Peter McNestry. Chair, Coalfields Regeneration Trust, Wath upon Dearne, Rotherham. For services to Coalfield Communities. (Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire)

Mrs Sylvia Flora Agnes McRoberts. Member, Armagh City and District Council. For services to Local Government and to the community. (Armagh)

Dr Mel Mehmet. Chief executive, easitNETWORK. For services to Business and Sustainable Transport. (Surrey)

Mrs Nilima Menski. Founder, Centre for Indian Classical Dance. For services to Dance. (Leicestershire)

Mrs Valerie Carol Mercer. Higher Officer, Risk and Intelligence Service, London, HM Revenue and Customs. For services to Preventing Alcohol Fraud. (Southend on Sea, Essex)

Alan Frederick Millam. For services to the community in Braintree Essex. (Braintree, Essex)

Dr Gerry Millar. General Practitioner and Macmillan Facilitator. For services to Healthcare in Northern Ireland. (Dungannon, Tyrone)

Thomas Millar. Broadcaster, BBC Radio Ulster. For services to Pipe Band Music in Northern Ireland. (Ballymena, Antrim)

Roger Beverley Norton Mills. For services to Voluntary and Charitable Giving in South Cheshire. (Nantwich, Cheshire)

Brian Raymond Douglas Mitchell. General manager, Rayleigh Boys Football Club. For services to Youth Football. (Rayleigh, Essex)

Andrew Moncrieffe. 2012 Recruitment consultant, Department for Work and Pensions. For services to Diversity and Inclusion in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London)

Mrs Molly Sheila Morris. Foster Carer and Adoptive Parent, Oxfordshire. For services to Children and Families. (Wheatley, Oxfordshire)

William John Morris. Foster Carer, Oxfordshire. For services to Children and Families. (Wheatley, Oxfordshire)

Mrs Tracy Mort. Managing director, Grace Cole Ltd and Affinity Bay Ltd. For services to the UK Economy. (Bury, Lancashire)

Mrs Joy Rochelle Moss. Chair, Jewish Child's Day. For services to Charitable Giving and Disadvantaged Children in the UK and Abroad.

Michael Roy Mottram. Equipment Officer, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service. For services to Local Government. (Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

Mrs Patricia Jayne Mudd. Nurse consultant, Cardiac Rhythm Management, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Healthcare. (Hutton Rudby, North Yorkshire)

James Murdoch. Dwp Operations. For services to Jobseekers and services to the community in Scotland.

Robert Ian Burn-Murdoch. Curator, Norris Museum. For services to the Heritage of St. Ives, Cambridgeshire. (Cambridgeshire)

Mrs Anne Murray. Lay Member, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties. For services to Healthcare. (Cambridgeshire)

Mrs Catherine Lynn Myers. Head of Years 13 and 14 and Teacher Governor, Strathearn School, Belfast. For services to Education and voluntary service to Young People in North Belfast. (Belfast)

Dr Geetha Nagasubramanian. Consultant Gynaecologist and head of Service, Tower Hamlets Contraception and Sexual Health Services, London. For services to Women and Young People. (Orpington, Kent)

Paul Rossiter Newsome, JP. For voluntary service to SSAFA Forces Help in Dorset. (Bournemouth, Dorset)

Robert William Nicholson. For services to Tourism in Somerset. (Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset)

Paul Nickson. Head of Arrivals and Departures, LOCOG. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Windlesham, Surrey)

Ms Simona Carol Novelli. Operations director, Cox Exhibition Consultants Ltd. For services to International Trade. (Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands)

Nana Abrah Nyarko. Bus Station Controller. For services to London's Buses. (Surrey)

Mrs Lugina Oates. For services to the community in West Cornwall. (Redruth, Cornwall)

Mrs Angela Jean O'Brien. For services to Drama in the South West. (Plymouth, Devon)

Ms Patricia O'Hagan. Managing director, Core Systems (NI) Ltd. For services to the Northern Ireland Economy. (Antrim)

Mrs Margaret Alison Ollerenshaw. Formerly Chair, Cheshire Police Authority. For services to Policing. (Knutsford, Cheshire)

Damian Angelo O'Reilly. Inspector, Greater Manchester Police. For services to Policing and the community of Gorton. (Denton, Greater Manchester)

George William Ottowell. For services to the community in Easington Colliery Durham. (Peterlee, Durham)

Mrs Elaine Owen. Superintendent Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Child Development Centre, Bangor. For service to Children with Disabilities. (Anglesey)

Richard John Ashwin Owen. District Officer, Hampshire Special Constabulary. For services to Policing. (Havant, Hampshire)

Christopher Page. Ministry of Defence. For services to Defence and to Young People through the R.N. Volunteer Cadet Corps. (Yeovil, Somerset)

Ms Cassa Pancho. Artistic director and Founder, Ballet Black. For services to Ballet. (London)

Ms Caroline Parker. Actress. For services to Deaf Theatre and Drama. (London)

Professor Dawood Parker. Managing director, Melys Diagnostics. For services to Science and International Development. (Dyfed)

Gerald Parkes. Founder, Parkway Cinemas. For services to the UK Cinema Industry. (Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire)

Kaushik Chaturbhai Patel. Community Pharmacist, Essex. For services to Pharmacy. (Clacton on Sea, Essex)

Rajesh Patel. Community Pharmacist, Cheshire. For services to Pharmacy. (Gatley, Cheshire)

Frank Paterson. Formerly Chair, Friends of The National Railway Museum. For services to Museums. (York, North Yorkshire)

Dr Madhu Lata Pathak, JP. For services to the community in Romford, Essex. (Romford, Essex)

Dr Richard Stewart Pattman. Consultant in Genito-urinary Medicine, Newcastle Primary Care Trust. For services to Genito-urinary Medicine in the North East. (Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear)

Miss Kay Payne. For services to Defence.

Alan Peaford. Founding Trustee and Chairperson, Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Foundation. For services to People with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome and their Families. (Essex)

Mrs Elizabeth Rosemary Pearce. For services to the Samaritans and to Cruse Bereavement Care in Northern Ireland. (Holywood, Down)

Mrs Jean Pendlebury. For services to the community in Buxton, Derbyshire. (Buxton, Derbyshire)

Kevin Penhale. Customs Officer, Border Force, Home Office. For services to Border Protection. (Liskeard, Cornwall)

Mrs Rachel Barnetson Phillips. For services to Scottish Country Dancing. (Isle of Arran, Western Isles)

Mrs Justine Anne Pickering. Founder, Ty Hapus. For services to People with Dementia and for charitable services to the NSPCC. (Cardiff)

Ms Ruth Pickersgill. Formerly Diversity manager, Leicester College. For services to Further Education. (Fishponds, Bristol)

Mrs Catherine Diane Pickett. Senior Schools Governance manager, Welsh Government. For public service to the Safety of Schoolchildren. (Cardiff)

Ms Caroline Pidgeon. Liberal Democrat Leader, London Assembly. For public and political service. (London)

Mrs Lillian Pilcher. Police Staff, Hertfordshire Police. For services to Policing. (Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire)

Mrs Elizabeth Pitcairn. For services to Young People in Scotland through the Girl Guides. (Balerno, Edinburgh)

Harold Pitchforth. Country manager, Iraq, KBR. For services to the Defence Industry.

Miss Mary Elizabeth Plume. Administrative Officer, Ministry of Defence. For services to the Armed Forces. (London)

Mrs Aleksandra Podhorodecka. Chair, Polish Education Society. For services to Education. (London)

Mrs Kim Lesley Popratnjak. Principal, North Birmingham Academy. For services to Education. (Walsall, West Midlands)

Mrs Shirley Price. For charitable services in East Sussex. (Hailsham, East Sussex)

Mrs Virginia Prifti. Founder, Lawrence's Roundabout Well Appeal. For charitable services in the UK and Southern Africa. (Llanmadoc, Swansea)

Mrs Elspeth Jean Day Pringle. Prosecutor, Central Fraud Group, Crown Prosecution Service. For services to Law and Order. (Coulsdon, Surrey)

John Pritchard. Paramedic, Scottish Ambulance Service. For services to the Scottish Ambulance Service and BASICS Scotland. (Crieff, Perth and Kinross)

Gerry Proctor. For services to the community in Liverpool.

Raymond John Puddifoot. Leader, Hillingdon Council. For services to the community in Hillingdon, Middlesex. (Uxbridge, Middlesex)

Mrs Felicity Anne Pugh. For charitable services in Cambridge. (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)

Mrs Barbara Eileen Purbrick. Volunteer, Conservative Party Member, Putnoe Branch. For political service. (Bedfordshire)

Ms Gillian Barbara Mary Anderson Quinn. Founder, Gillian Quinn School of Theatre Dance. For services to Dance. (North Shields, Tyne and Wear)

Howard Ian Rabin. Founder and Librarian, Lubavitch Lending Library. For services to Libraries. (London)

Emdadur Rahman. Journalist and Community Volunteer. For services to the community in Tower Hamlets and to the Bangladeshi Media. (London)

Mark Ravin Ramprakash. Formerly Cricketer, Surrey County Cricket Club. For services to Sport. (Middlesex)

Miss Jenny Stephanie Ramsden. For services to Further Education and to Mathematics Education through the UK Mathematics Trust. (Amersham, Buckinghamshire)

Ms Siobhan Redmond. Actress. For services to Drama. (London)

Kenneth George Haldane Reedie. Formerly Curator, Canterbury Museum Service. For services to Museums in Kent. (Canterbury, Kent)

David Rees. Aviation Operational Analyst, CORDA Consulting. For services to Defence Capability. (Devon)

Miss Helen Jane Rees. Teacher in Charge, First Steps Nursery, The Willows Academy, Hillingdon. For services to Education. (Middlesex)

Douglas George Reynolds, JP. For services to the community in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. (Surbiton, Surrey)

Glyn Rhodes. Founder, Sheffield Boxing Centre. For services to Boxing and Young People in Sheffield. (South Yorkshire)

Patrick James Rice. Football Coach and lately assistant manager, Arsenal Football Club. For services to Sport. (Cockfosters, Hertfordshire)

David Cyril Elliot Ridgeon. Vice-chairman, Ridgeon Builders Merchants. For services to the Builders Merchants Industry and to the community in Cambridgeshire. (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)

Alderman Geoffrey Max Roberts. For services to the community in Aughton and West Lancashire. (Ormskirk, Lancashire)

Mrs Pamela Rodway. Farmer, Wester Lawrenceton Farm, Morayshire. For services to the Promotion of Sustainable Food Production and Food Education in Scotland. (Forres, Moray)

Mrs Thelma Roll. For services to the community in Stoke Prior, Worcestershire. (Bromsgrove, Worcestershire)

Joseph Peter Roper. For services to Education and to the community in Birkenhead Merseyside. (Birkenhead, Merseyside)

Michael Rossiter. Formerly Headteacher, Woodlesford Primary School, Leeds. For services to Education and to the community in Leeds. (Leeds, West Yorkshire)

Mrs Jean Margaret Rowland. For voluntary services to the Physically Handicapped and Able Bodied Club, Newport, South Wales. (Caerleon, Newport)

Mrs Rosalind Louise Rowley. For services to the community in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)

Douglas Roxburgh. For services to Residential Child Care in Edinburgh. (Edinburgh)

Adrian Ruddle. Prison Officer, HM Young Offenders' Institute, Deerbolt. For services to HM Prison Service and the Care of Prisoners. (Darlington, Durham)

Alan Sanderson. Plant manager, Kingsnorth Power Station. For services to the Energy Industry.

Ms Enid Millicent Scaife. For services to the community in Sadberge Durham. (Darlington, Durham)

The Venerable William John Scott. For voluntary service to the Air Training Corps in Northern Ireland. (Ballynahinch, Down)

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Paul Sculthorpe. For services to Rugby League and to charity. (Wigan, Greater Manchester)

Mrs Elizabeth Seabrook. Administrator, Insurance Company. For services to Bioscience. (Kent)

Miss Hannah Seakins. Ministry of Defence. For services to Military Operations. (Hitchin, Hertfordshire)

Mark Sealy. Director, Autograph: The Association for Black Photographers. For services to Photography. (London)

Colin Adrian Reginald Sedgwick. Operations manager, Southend Lifeboat, RNLI. For services to Maritime Safety. (Southend-on-Sea, Essex)

Popatlal Sojpar Shah. For services to Charitable Giving in the UK and Overseas. (Edgware, Middlesex)

Philip Mark Shapiro. Chair, Cornerhouse. For services to the Arts. (Wilmslow, Cheshire)

Kenneth James Sharkey. Farmer and Member, Livestock and Meat Commission. For services to Agriculture in Northern Ireland. (Tyrone)

Mrs Joann Rose Marie Sharpley. For services to the community in Woking, Surrey. (Woking, Surrey)

Graham Shaw. Assistant chief Driving Examiner, Driving Standards Agency. For services to Motorcycle Safety. (Nottinghamshire)

Richard Leslie Shaw. Volunteer, The Teenage Cancer Trust and The Norfolk Hospice Tapping House. For services to charity. (Hunstanton, Norfolk)

Mrs Freda Sheehy. For services to the community in Norwich. (Norwich, Norfolk)

Mrs Maureen Simpson. Foster Carer, Hounslow, London. For services to Looked After Children. (Ashford, Middlesex)

Mrs Neelam Aggarwal-Singh. For services to Community Cohesion, Health and Welfare through the Indian Hindu Welfare Organisation. (Northamptonshire)

Linda Anne Sloan. Senior Auditor, Internal Audit, Department for International Development. For services to Governance in Fragile States. (East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire)

Alan William Bedford Smith. Chairman, Pipex Ltd. For services to the Manufacturing Industry. (Newton Abbot, Devon)

Mrs Hilda Smith. For services to Vulnerable and Older People. (Newport)

Michael Miller-Smith. For services to Aviation for People with Disabilities through Aerobility. (Basingstoke, Hampshire)

Mrs Linda Soon. Head of Chinese Investment UK, UK Trade and Investment. For services to the Promotion of Chinese Businesses in the UK. (London)

David Malcolm South. Chair, Holcombe Hockey Club. For services to Sport. (Shorne, Kent)

Mrs Mary Rose Spiegelberg. Patron, St. Luke's Hospice, Cheshire. For services to Palliative Care. (Cheshire)

Ronald Arthur Stanley. Senior Systems Engineer, Ofcom. For services to Spectrum Engineering. (St Neots, Cambridgeshire)

Richard William Stanton. Firefighter, West Midlands Fire and Rescue Service. For services to Local Government. (Coventry, West Midlands)

Jack Stephenson. For services to the community and to charity in Scarborough North Yorkshire. (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)

John Mason Stoddard. For services to the community in Letchworth Hertfordshire. (Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire)

Nigel William Stone. Detective Superintendent, Bedfordshire Police. For services to Policing. (Bedford, Bedfordshire)

Mrs Yvonne Zena Stone. Senior Officer, Criminal Investigation, Birmingham, HM Revenue and Customs. For services to Prevention of Smuggling and Asset Recovery. (Atherstone, Warwickshire)

Mrs Fiona Elizabeth Stuart. President, The Tullochan Trust. For services to Young People in Dunbartonshire. (Gartocharn, Dunbartonshire)

Mark Andrew Suffolk. Founder and managing director, Suffolk Pointe Shoe Company Ltd. For services to Manufacturing. (Leicestershire)

Colin Michael John Sutherland. For services to the community in Banstead Surrey. (Banstead, Surrey)

Mrs Jennifer Swanson. Officer, Support Team manager, Large Business Service, Newcastle, HM Revenue and Customs. For services to the Tax System and voluntary service to Children. (Blyth, Northumberland)

Dr Charles Winthrop Molesworth Swithinbank. Glaciologist. For services to Exploration and Research in the Antarctic. (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)

Carl John Ames Tantum. For services to charity in East Hampshire. (Bordon, Hampshire)

Gary Charles Taylor. Managing director, Valley Grown Nurseries and lately vice-chairman, NFU Horticulture and Potato Board. For services to the UK Pepper Industry. (Waltham Abbey, Essex)

Mrs Anne Christine Thomas. For services to the community in Newport, South Wales. (Newport)

Mrs Christine Evans-Thomas. Founder, Adam's Bucketful of Hope. For charitable services to Cancer Patients in South and West Wales. (Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire)

Professor Sarah Madeleine Thompson. Head, Department of Physics, University of York. For services to Higher Education. (York, North Yorkshire)

Andrew Edward Thomson. For services to Bowls. (London)

Mrs Joan Hastwell Thornycroft. For services to the Beauty Therapy Industry. (Cranbrook, Kent)

Roger Michael Thrift. Underwriting Adviser, Life Science Insurance Company. For services to Bioscience. (Leicestershire)

Ms Gillian Timmis. Fundraiser, Children in Care. For charitable services to Children in the UK and Abroad. (London)

Trevor George Tipple. For services to Church Music in Worcestershire. (Worcestershire)

Ms Erica Grace Towner. Formerly director of Partnerships, University of East Anglia. For services to Higher Education. (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire)

Victor George Truluck. For charitable services in Hastings East Sussex. (Hastings, East Sussex)

Iain Tuckett. Group director, Coin Street Community Builders. For services to Architecture and Regeneration. (London)

John Michael Tupman. Special Constable, Wiltshire Police. For services to Policing and to the community in Marlborough. (Marlborough, Wiltshire)

Andrew Philip Turner. Deputy chairman, Greater Manchester Area Conservative Group. For political service and service to the community in Hale Barns. (Altrincham, Greater Manchester)

Richard Hugh Turpin. Vice-Chair, Hospitality Action and Chair, Ark Foundation. For charitable services to the Hospitality Industry. (Paignton)

Eric Twigger. Formerly Chair of Governors, Hull College. For services to Further Education. (Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire)

Ms Catherine Oliaku Ugwu. Executive Producer (Production), London 2012 Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London)

John Underhill. For voluntary service to the Royal British Legion. (Hampshire)

Mrs Patricia Usher. Formerly director of Student and Academic Administration, University of Southampton. For services to Higher Education. (Southampton, Hampshire)

David Valentine. Formerly head of Economic Development, Angus Council. For services to Local Government and the community in Angus. (Forfar, Angus)

Ms Lisa Vernon. Chief executive, Derbyshire Learning and Development Consortium. For services to Learning and Skills. (Derby, Derbyshire)

Ms Harriet Vine. Co-Founder, Tatty Devine. For services to the Fashion Industry. (London)

Alan Walker. Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh. For services to Science Engagement and Science Education in Scotland. (Edinburgh)

Mrs Carol Walton. For services to Midwifery and Breastfeeding Mothers in Wales. (Cardiff)

Mrs Caroline Mary Ward. Founder and manager, Little Oaks Community Nursery, Wavendon, Milton Keynes. For services to Special Needs Education. (Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire)

Dr Andrew George Wardman. Consultant Physician and director of Medical Education, Wigan. For services to Hospital Medicine. (Bolton, Greater Manchester)

David Warin. For services to Drive Alive and to the community in Pickering North Yorkshire. (Pickering, North Yorkshire)

Mrs Wendy Jill Watson. Founder, National Hereditary Breast Cancer Helpline. For services to People with Breast Cancer. (Bakewell, Derbyshire)

Stephen Webster. Jewellery Entrepreneur and Craftsman. For services to Training and Skills in the British Jewellery Industry. (London)

Ms Kresse Wesling. Entrepreneur. For services to Corporate Social Responsibility. (Boscombe, Dorset)

Mrs Patricia Whaley. Formerly Regional director for North East, National Institute of Adult Continuing Education. For services to Adult Learning. (Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire)

Ms Frances Elizabeth White. Manager, Little Haddon Residential Care Home. For services to People with Learning Disabilities. (Axminster, Devon)

Gary White. Formerly chief Superintendent, Police Service of Northern Ireland. For services to Policing and to the community in North and West Belfast. (Belfast)

Mrs Jacqueline White. Volunteer Swimming Instructor. For services to Disability Swimming and to the community in Enfield, Middlesex. (Enfield, Middlesex)

Mrs Jane White. Volunteer, Citizens' Advice Bureau, Hitchin. For services to the community in Hertfordshire. (Hitchin, Hertfordshire)

Philip White. Chief executive, Hestercombe Gardens Trust. For services to Historic Garden Restoration. (Dorset)

Andrew Whitehall. Constable, Staffordshire Police. For services to Young People in Stone, Staffordshire. (Stone, Staffordshire)

Mrs Hilary Whittaker. Chief executive, Beating Bowel Cancer, Surrey. For services to Bowel Cancer Awareness. (Thames Ditton, Surrey)

Mrs Maxine Eloise Whitton. Patron, Vitiligo Society. For services to the Advancement of Knowledge and Research into Vitiligo. (London)

Miss Piriadarshni Wignarajah. Senior manager, Olympic Delivery Network, UK Trade and Investment. For services to the British Business Embassy. (North Harrow, Middlesex)

George Willacy, JP. For services to the community in Annandale and Eskdale, Dumfries and Galloway.

David Ronald Williams. Managing director, WTW Cinemas. For services to Regional Cinema. (Wadebridge, Cornwall)

Dr Eleanor Williams. For services to Healthcare and for charitable services in South Wales and Overseas. (Swansea)

Gerald Robert Williams. Custodian and Guide, Hedd Wyn's Historic Home, Yr Ysgwrn, Snowdonia. (Gwynedd)

John James Williams. For services to Rugby and charitable services in Wales. (Bridgend)

Simon Williams. Head of 2012 Operations, Weymouth and Portland Borough Council. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Dorchester, Dorset)

Terence Lynn Williams. Formerly Headteacher, Litchard Primary School, Bridgend. For services to Education in Wales. (Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan)

John Hampton Wilson. For services to the community in Northern Ireland. (Portadown, Armagh)

Lady Robert Wilson. Secretary, Friends of Home Hospital. For services to the community in Lanarkshire.

Mrs Evelyn Ann Winfield. Formerly Leader, Cwmbran Community Council. For services to Local Government and the community in Cwmbran, Torfaen. (Cwmbran, Torfaen)

Miss Jane Withey. Founder, Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime. For services to Wildlife Crime Enforcement and to Girl Guiding in Somerset North. (Keynsham, Somerset)

Mrs Susan Wittames. Governor, Oulton Broad Primary School, and Fen Park Primary School. For services to Education.

Ms Rosie Wolfenden. Co-Founder, Tatty Devine. For services to the Fashion Industry. (London)

Dr David George Edwin Wood. For services to Education and Training in General Practice and to the community in North Wales. (Colwyn Bay, Conwy)

Derek William Paitson Wood. For services to the community in Farnborough Hampshire. (Farnborough, Hampshire)

Guy Elliot Woodford. For services to charity and to the community in Willingdon East Sussex. (Eastbourne, East Sussex)

Professor Linda Woodhead. Professor of Sociology of Religion, Lancaster University. For services to Higher Education. (Lancaster, Lancashire)

Richard Wootton. Communications Infrastructure manager, Maritime and Coastguard Agency. For services to the Coastguard Agency. (Gosport, Hampshire)

Marilyn Wright. lately head of HR and Facilities, One North East. For services to Business in the North East. (Ashington)

Mrs Margaret Elizabeth Wynn. For services to Elderly People at the Sprowston Day Centre in Norwich, Norfolk. (Norwich, Norfolk)

Mrs Margaret Elizabeth Yates. For services to the community in St. Helens, Merseyside. (St. Helens, Merseyside)

Dr Alan Hatton-Yeo. Chief executive, The Beth Johnson Foundation. For services to Promoting Inter-generational Practice. (Lancashire)

Robert David Young. London 2012 Nations and Regions Group Co-ordinator for the Northwest, Government Olympic Executive. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Greater Manchester)

Mrs Stephanie Vernon Irons-Young. (Stephanie Young), lately Provost, East Ayrshire. For services to Local Government and to charity.

BRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL

BEM

Leslie John Ager. For services to Music in Haverhill Suffolk. (Haverhill, Suffolk)

Ms Valerie Ahern. Vice-Chair, Templar's Estate Residents Association. For services to Tenant Empowerment in Witham. (Witham, Essex)

Ms Eileen Alldritt. For services to Tenant Empowerment and the community in Liverpool. (Liverpool, Merseyside)

Mrs Christine Ann Allen. Chief executive, Forum Housing Association. For services to the community in Merseyside. (Wirral, Merseyside)

Mrs Elizabeth Mary Allison. For services to Sutton Coldfield Civic Society. (Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands)

Michael John Ames. For services to the community in Bury St Edmunds Suffolk. (Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk)

Mrs Mary Catherine Anderson. Centre manager, The Broomhouse Centre. For services to the community in Broomhouse, Edinburgh. (Edinburgh)

Mrs Heather Elizabeth Andrews. President, 1st Yeovil Girls' Brigade. For services to Children and Young People. (Yeovil, Somerset)

Mrs Janice Andrews. Chair, Parent Staff and Student Association, Admiral Lord Nelson Secondary School, Portsmouth. For services to Education. (Portsmouth, Hampshire)

John Hugo Bailey Ashworth. Basketball Coach. For voluntary service to Basketball and the community in the London Borough of Bromley. (Bromley, Kent)

Lewis Henry Badger. Volunteer, Cannock Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. For services to the Environment. (Stafford, Staffordshire)

Colin Baker. For services to the Royal Mail and to the Disabled Club in Dorchester. (Dorchester, Dorset)

Donald Leslie Baker. Support Grade Band 1, HMP Cardiff. For services to HM Prison Service and voluntary services to People with Impaired Vision. (Cardiff, South Glamorgan)

Robert John Buller-Barker. For services to the community in Great Oxendon Leicestershire. (Market Harborough, Leicestershire)

Peter Thomas Barrell. Founder and chairman, Chris Barrell Memorial Trust. For services to Children, Young People and Families. (Sandwich, Kent)

Geoffrey Bartholomew. For services to Youth Football in Grimsby and Cleethorpes. (Grimsby, Lincolnshire)

Mrs Lynn Andrea Bartlett. For services to the community in Polruan, Cornwall. (Fowey, Cornwall)

Mrs Ann Margaret Barwood. For voluntary services to Exeter Cathedral. (Exminster, Devon)

David Eoin Fyffe Bennet. For services to Music in Perthshire. (Stormontfield, Perth and Kinross)

Mrs Sylvia Bernard. For services to the community in the London Borough of Wandsworth. (London)

Mrs Elaine Bertenshaw. Volunteer, Lancashire Constabulary. For services to Policing and the community. (Lytham St Annes, Lancashire)

Mrs Alison Bevan. Director, Penlee House, Penzance. For services to Cultural Heritage in Cornwall. (Penzance, Cornwall)

Mrs Judith Elizabeth Biggs. Station Host, Warwick Parkway Railway Station. For services to Railway Passengers in Warwickshire. (Warwick, Warwickshire)

Mrs Brenda Bonwell. Chair, Weymouth and Portland Friends Group, Julia's House Children's Hospice. For services to Charity. (Weymouth, Dorset)

John Robert Bostock. Formerly Course director's assistant, The Open University. For services to Higher Education. (Swadlincote, Derbyshire)

Mrs Alice Anne Bovill. Chair, St. Mary's Association of Residents and Tenants. For services to the community in Dundee. (Dundee)

Mrs Dawn Bracken. Volunteer Trailblazer. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Chelmsford, Essex)

Peter Andrew Branker. For services to young people charity and to the community in Dromore, Northern Ireland. (Down)

David Alfred William Brazier. Chair, Ground Committee, Woodmansterne Sports Club. For services to Sport. (Banstead, Surrey)

Mrs Daphne Breakspear. For services to Amateur Drama in Swindon. (Swindon, Wiltshire)

Mrs Stacey Anne Brown. Property Officer, Surrey Police. For public and charitable services. (Old Woking, Surrey)

John Herbert Bryant. For services to the community in Kingsthorne Herefordshire. (Herefordshire)

Jeremy Buckle. Event director, UK Young Scientists and Engineers Fair. For services to Science and Engineering. (London)

David Arnold Burchell. For voluntary service to St John Ambulance in the London Borough of Sutton. (Wallington, Surrey)

Harold John Burkhill. For charitable services in Sheffield South Yorkshire. (Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

Robert David George Bushell. District president, Royal Kingston Scout District, London. For services to Scouting. (Surrey)

Barry Buxton. For services to the community in Ropsley Lincolnshire. (Grantham, Lincolnshire)

Mrs Agnes Cadger. Club secretary, Scottish Classic Racing Motor Club. For services to Motorcycle Racing. (Saltcoats, Ayrshire and Arran)

Mrs Janet Stewart Campbell. For voluntary service to the British Red Cross Society in Argyll. (Argyll and Bute)

David Arthur Cargill. For services to the community in Radyr and Morganstown Cardiff. (Cardiff)

Mrs Kathleen Emmie Carhart. For services to the community in Little Dunmow, Essex. (Dunmow, Essex)

Mrs Carol Ann Carr. Formerly Senior Tutor, College of St Hild and St Bede, Durham University. For services to Higher Education and Student Support. (Durham)

Mrs Yvonne Carson. Secretary, House of Commons. For services to Parliament and the Commonwealth. (St Albans, Hertfordshire)

Ronald Victor Cathcart. Committee Member, County Armagh Royal Ulster Constabulary George Cross Association. For voluntary services to the community in Northern Ireland. (Armagh)

Mrs Marlene Chambers. For services to the community in Thornhill Lees, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. (Mirfield, West Yorkshire)

Mrs Margaret Charlwood. Coach, Medau Society. For services to Exercise. (Horley, Surrey)

Mrs Janet Chisholm. For services to the community in Middlewich, Cheshire. (Middlewich, Cheshire)

Stephen Christie. Technical Adviser for Media Studies, Wigan and Leigh College. For services to Further Education. (Wigan, Greater Manchester)

Mrs Judith Mary Clark. Fundraiser, Save the Children. For services to Children. (Chichester, West Sussex)

Mrs Kate Clarke. For services to Young People in County Down through the Kircubbin Youth Club and After Schools Club. (Kircubbin, Down)

Robert Paulin Clinton. For services to Veterans Aid. (Newmarket, Suffolk)

Ian Clough. For services to the communities in Kiagware Kenya and Coity, Mid-Glamorgan. (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan)

Mrs Sandra Coats. Catering assistant, Barking and Dagenham College. For services to Further Education. (Essex)

Neil Cole. Retained Firefighter, Isle of Wight. For services to the community of the Isle of Wight. (Shanklin, Isle of Wight)

David Francis Corbett. For voluntary service to Aquatic Sport in the West Midlands. (Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands)

Ms Rose Gabrielle Cooke-Coton. For services to the community in Masefield Birmingham. (Birmingham, West Midlands)

Ian Alexander Coulter. Charity Fundraiser. For services to charitable fundraising in Northern Ireland. (Bushmills, Antrim)

Mrs Hilary Susan Craft. Founder and Fundraiser, Action Against Cancer, (incorporating) Gene Machine Charity. For services to charity. (Greater Manchester)

Peter Norman Culverwell. For services to the community in Biddenham Bedfordshire. (Bedfordshire)

Douglas Noble Currie. For services to Drama and Teaching in Edinburgh. (Edinburgh)

Mrs Jean Lorna Curtis. For services to the community in Coningsby, Lincolnshire. (Coningsby, Lincolnshire)

Norman Ferguson Cutter. For services to Music in Warrington. (Warrington, Cheshire)

Mrs Mary Margaret Dale. For services to charity and to the community in Banbridge, Northern Ireland. (Banbridge, Down)

Ranjit Singh Danda. Lead for Faith Inclusion, Nishkam School Trust, Birmingham. For services to Education.

Mrs Margaret Winifred Davies. For services to Music and the community. (Abergavenny, Monmouthshire)

David Leonard Deacon. For charitable services and to the community in Warminster Wiltshire. (Shaftesbury, Dorset)

Mrs Meena Kumari Dhawan. For services to the Royal Mail and the community in North London.

Mrs Georgina Dickson. For services to the community and charitable fundraising in Ballynahinch, Northern Ireland. (Ballynahinch, Down)

Ian Dickson. Director, Friends of the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre. For services to the Welfare of People with Cancer in the West of Scotland. (Milngavie, Glasgow)

Mrs Heather Didwell. Volunteer, Catton Grove Community Association. For services to the community in Norwich. (Norwich, Norfolk)

James Dixon. For services to the community in Lincolnshire. (Lincolnshire)

Dr Alice Doherty. For services to Oxfam Musselburgh. (Musselburgh, East Lothian)

Mrs Jennifer Donald. Voluntary Carer. For services to Older People in Milngavie, Dunbartonshire. (Milngavie, Dunbartonshire)

Ms Kim Victoria Douglas. Chair, George Coller Memorial Fund. For services to People with Asthma. (Birmingham, West Midlands)

Councillor Annette Norah Mary Colbert Drake. For public and voluntary service to the community in Wokingham Berkshire. (Wokingham, Berkshire)

Mrs Beryl Anne Duggan. Welfare Officer, Northwest Branch, British Retinitus Pigmentosa Society. For services to charity. (Chester, Cheshire)

David Dunn. Chair, West Lancashire Civic Trust and Chair, West Lancashire Conservation Areas Advisory Panel. For services to Conservation in West Lancashire. (Ormskirk, Lancashire)

Mrs Jill Jacqueline Earney. For services to the community in Hatfield Peverel, Essex. (Chelmsford, Essex)

William John Wilson Edwardes. For services to the 43 Wessex Regimental Association and to the community in Chandler's Ford Hampshire. (Eastleigh, Hampshire)

Miss Maureen Edwards. For services to North Shropshire Hunt Pony Club. (Market Drayton, Shropshire)

Mrs Beryl Daisy Lillie Emery. For charitable services in Rugby, Warwickshire. (Rugby, Warwickshire)

Peter England. For services to the community in Powys and Dyfed. (Welshpool, Powys)

Mrs Joan Frances Evans. Founder and Charity manager, Rotherfield St. Martin. For services to the community in Rotherfield, East Sussex. (Crowborough, East Sussex)

David George Fairchild. For services to the communities in Haddenham and Aldreth Cambridgeshire. (Ely, Cambridgeshire)

Mrs Cecilia Catherine Fernie. Founder, Greyhound Rescue, Fife. For services to Animal Welfare. (Burntisland, Fife)

Mrs Daphne Edna Field. For services to charity and to the community in Chelmsford, Essex. (Chelmsford, Essex)

Mrs Joyce Fieldhouse. Volunteer, Mencap, Leeds. For services to People with Learning Disabilities and their Families. (Leeds, West Yorkshire)

John William Filby. For services to the community in Abridge Essex. (Romford, Essex)

Bryan Finlay. Community Resuscitation Development Officer, Scottish Ambulance Service. For services to Healthcare and the community in the Lothians and Borders. (Penicuik, Midlothian)

Ms Andrea Finn. For services to the community in Wood Green Hampshire. (Fordingbridge, Hampshire)

Mrs Dorothy May Fisher. Fundraiser, RSPCA. For services to Animal Welfare and the community in Cornwall. (Camborne, Cornwall)

Adam Forshaw. For services to Young People through Scouting and Martial Arts in Cheshire. (Winsford, Cheshire)

Mrs Susan Lydia Freeman. For services to the community in Thaxted, Essex. (Dunmow, Essex)

Charles Patrick Friel. For services to the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland. (Belfast)

Christopher John Fryer. Group Scout Leader, 1st Bayston Hill Scout Group, Shrewsbury, Shropshire. For services to Children and Young People. (Shrewsbury, Shropshire)

Graham Richard Furley. For services to the community in Stroud Gloucestershire. (Stroud, Gloucestershire)

Colin Gardiner. Operations manager, Helensburgh Lifeboat, RNLI. For services to Maritime Safety. (Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire)

Kenneth Garland. For services to the community in York. (York, North Yorkshire)

Michael Harvey Gee. For services to Orchard Conservation in North Devon. (Barnstaple, Devon)

Mrs Jane Elizabeth Gemmill. For services to the community in Stradbroke, Suffolk. (Eye, Suffolk)

Mrs Mary Elizabeth Gerrard. School Caretaker and Governor, Hollinsclough Church of England Primary School, Buxton. For services to Education. (Buxton, Derbyshire)

Miss Katherine Margaret Gilcreest. Anti-Social Behaviour manager, London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. For services to the community in East London. (Brentwood, Essex)

Avneet Gill. Trailblazer Volunteer. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London)

Thomas Louis Gilzean. For services to charitable fundraising in Edinburgh. (Edinburgh)

Robert John Girvan. For services to the community in Hitchin Hertfordshire. (Hitchin, Hertfordshire)

Dr Ann Victoria Goddard. For services to the community in Hertsmere Hertfordshire. (Borehamwood, Hertfordshire)

Mrs Mary Hermione Seager Goulding. For services to charity and to the community in Winchester, Hampshire.

Mrs Mary Graham. For voluntary service to Healthcare. (Newtownards, Down)

Robert Green. For services to the community in Bilston West Midlands. (Bilston, West Midlands)

Charles James Grice. Chief Coach, Droylsden Amateur Boxing Club. For services to Boxing. (Droylsden, Greater Manchester)

Mark Ellis Grinnall. For voluntary service through Paul's Place. (Undy, Monmouthshire)

Keith Haisman. Chair of Governors and Chair of Finance and Premises, Stour Valley Community School. For services to Education. (Clare, Suffolk)

Mrs Christine Hall. Head Coach, Tynedale Amateur Swimming Club. For services to Swimming. (Hexham, Northumberland)

Grenville Ham. Project Development manager, The Green Valleys. For services to Renewable Energy in Wales. (Powys)

Miss Emma Hamlen. Volunteer, Youth Offending Team. For services to Young People in Lancashire. (Burnley, Lancashire)

Mrs Patricia Susan Hampshire. For services to Emley Moor, Riding for the Disabled in Huddersfield. (Huddersfield, West Yorkshire)

Lindsay Hanna. Chairman, Laurelbank Carriage Driving for the Disabled. For services to People with Physical and Mental Disabilities through the Riding for the Disabled Association. (Saintfield, Down)

Mrs Patricia Harding. Nursery Nurse and Volunteer, Viking Primary School, Northolt, Middlesex. For services to Education. (Middlesex)

Mrs Elizabeth Ann Hardy. For services to the community in Great Amwell, Hertfordshire. (Ware, Hertfordshire)

Mrs Margaret Hardy. For services to the community in Saddleworth, Greater Manchester. (Oldham, Lancashire)

Mrs Dorene Marjorie Hargreaves. For services to Fitness and to the community in Bedminster and Wick, South Gloucestershire. (Wick, Gloucestershire)

Mrs Susan Harrison. For services to Independent Community Cinema in Aldeburgh. (Aldeburgh, Suffolk)

Mrs Sheila Hatcher. Pipe Major, Dagenham Girl Pipers. For services to Music. (Grays, Essex)

Mrs Anne Vera Helen Hawkins. For services to Elderly People in Hildenborough, Kent. (Tonbridge, Kent)

Mrs Muriel Healey. Board Member, Havebury Housing Partnership. For services to Tenants in Suffolk. (Haverhill, Suffolk)

Trevor Hellier. For services to the community in Polden Hill Somerset. (Bridgwater, Somerset)

Mrs Rachel Hemphill. Honorary Chair, Cancer Research UK Castlederg Fundraising Committee. For services to the community in Northern Ireland. (Castlederg, Tyrone)

Miss Vivienne Heys. Departmental Superintendent, Royal Veterinary College. For services to Higher Education and Animal Health. (Luton, Bedfordshire)

David Highton. For services to the community in the London Borough of Ealing. (London)

Mrs Carole Jean Hillman. For voluntary service to St. John Ambulance and the community in Gwent. (Gwent)

Richard Hinton. Programme manager, LOCOG. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London)

Stephen William Henry Hiser. Volunteer, Fisher Amateur Boxing Club, Bermondsey. For services to Youth Boxing in the London Borough of Southwark. (London)

Mrs Joanna Hoad. Chair, Blue Badge 2012 Committee. For services to Tourism and to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (East Moseley, Surrey)

Frederick Hobbs. For services to the community in Prestatyn Denbighshire. (Prestatyn, Denbighshire)

Mrs Susan Christine Holland. For services to the community in Lydford, Devon. (Okehampton, Devon)

Christopher Holt. For services to the community in Hunstanton Norfolk. (King's Lynn, Norfolk)

Miss Hilda Muriel Holyman. For services to the Diamond Riding Centre in Carshalton and to the community in Banstead Surrey. (Banstead, Surrey)

Alan George Hooker. For services to Scouting and to the community in Little Hallingbury Essex. (Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire)

Anthony Hopkins. Associate director of Day Care Services, Broadmoor Hospital. For services to Nursing. (Sandhurst, Berkshire)

Mrs Morag Hopkins. Industrial Caterer, HMP Haverigg. For services to HM Prison Service and the Rehabilitation of Offenders. (Millam, Cumbria)

Graham Houghton. Member, Neighbourhood Watch, St. Johns, Worcester. For services to Community Safety. (Worcestershire)

Mrs Jill Hucklesby. For services to the community in Peterborough. (Peterborough, Cambridgeshire)

John Colyer Hucklesby. For services to the community in Peterborough. (Peterborough, Cambridgeshire)

Robert George Hunt. For services to the community in Birmingham West Midlands. (Birmingham, West Midlands)

Asim Iftikhar. For services to the community in Poplar London Borough of Tower Hamlets. (London)

John James. For voluntary and charitable services to the community in Dundee. (Dundee)

Mrs Margaret Joyce Jessop. For charitable services in Boston, Lincolnshire. (Boston, Lincolnshire)

Mrs Sylvia Jane Jones. For charitable services in Oakham, Rutland. (Oakham, Rutland)

Mrs Daksha Joshi. For services to the community in Strand on the Green, London Borough of Hounslow. (London)

Mrs Valerie Joslin. For services to the community in Tatworth, Somerset. (Chard, Somerset)

Patrick Joyce. Fundraiser, Motor Neurone Disease Association. For services to charity. (Wells, Somerset)

Mrs Denise Kelly. Formerly Higher Level Teaching assistant, Bodnant Infants School, Prestatyn. For services to Education in Denbighshire. (Prestatyn, Denbighshire)

Muhammed Khan. Trailblazer Volunteer. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London)

Alan John Stewart Kilpatrick. Director, Friends of the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre. For services to the Welfare of People with Cancer in the West of Scotland. (Glasgow)

Mrs Amanda Elizabeth Kimmins. For services to the community of St. Agnes, Cornwall. (St Agnes, Cornwall)

John Philip King. For services to the community in Newbury Berkshire. (Newbury, Berkshire)

Mrs Helen Ruth Kirk. Campaigner and Volunteer, Thorne and Hatfield Moors. For services to Conservation. (Doncaster, South Yorkshire)

Mrs Betty Susan Snell Koppa. For services to the community and Residents of North Curry, Taunton. (Somerset)

Shaun Raymond Lansfield. For services to Tenant Engagement and to the community in Edmonton London Borough of Enfield. (London)

Mrs Agnes Jane Elizabeth Leask. Crofter. For services to Crofting in Shetland. (Shetland)

Mrs Jane Pauline Legat. For services to the community in Whiteparish, Wiltshire. (Salisbury, Wiltshire)

Mrs Helen Maria Lerner. For services to the community in Walthamstow through the Walthamstow Village Residents Association in East London. (London)

Wesley William Lewis, JP. For services to Young People in Belfast through the Boys' Brigade. (Belfast, Antrim)

Mrs Mavis Littleford. For services to charity in Wolverhampton. (Wolverhampton, West Midlands)

Mrs Jessie MacNeil. For services to the community on the Isle of Barra, Western Isles. (Isle of Barra, Western Isles)

James Norman MacRae, DL. For voluntary service in Dunbartonshire. (Gartocharn, Dunbartonshire)

Mrs Phyllis Janet Madron. Fundraiser, RNLI Penlee and Penzance. For services to Maritime Safety. (Penzance, Cornwall)

Mrs Bridie Frances Marshall. Youth Worker, Peasedown Youth Centre. For services to Young People and Families in Bath and North East Somerset. (Nr Bath, Somerset)

Dennis Cecil Marshall. For services to Judo in Hertfordshire. (Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire)

Frederek Sylvester Mayman. For voluntary service to Railway Heritage in the West Midlands and Wales. (Warwickshire)

Mrs Diana Elizabeth McDowell. For services to Heritage in Shaftesbury, Dorset through the Gold Hill Museum. (Shaftesbury, Dorset)

Brian McGoran. For voluntary service to Badminton. (Ballynahinch, Down)

Ms Jacqueline McGrew. Chair, Whitebirk Tenants and Residents Association. For services to the community in Blackburn, Lancashire. (Blackburn, Lancashire)

Mrs Ethel McIvor. Leader, Lollipop Playgroup, Donaghmore. For services to the development of Early Years Education in Northern Ireland. (Donaghmore, Tyrone)

Ms Marguerite McLaughlin. Chief executive, Metro Centre. For services to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender, and African People in London and the South East. (London)

William Douglas Mellis. For services to the community in Bournville West Midlands. (Birmingham, West Midlands)

Mrs Jean Meredith. For services to the community and to charity in Radstock, Somerset. (Radstock, Somerset)

Mrs Bridget Philomena Meyler. For services to Music in Northern Ireland. (Omagh, Tyrone)

Matthew Milnes. Founder, Scholemoor Sport and Recreation Project. For services to the community in Bradford. (Bradford, West Yorkshire)

Miss Jennifer Susan Mitchell. Formerly Forensic Policy Officer, National Policing Improvement Agency. For services to Policing. (London)

Ms Joyce Mitchell. Club Leader, Cambridge Physically Handicapped Able Bodied Club. For services to the community in Cambridgeshire. (Cambridgeshire)

Paul Modley. Senior Recruitment manager, LOCOG. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (London)

James William Mole. For services to the community in Ford Northumberland. (Cornhill-on-Tweed, Northumberland)

Mrs Monica Murdoch. For services to the community in Blagdon, Somerset. (Bristol)

Mrs Brenda Murray. Co-Founder, Liverpool Historical Society. For voluntary service to Heritage and History in Liverpool and Seaforth. (Liverpool, Merseyside)

Mrs Maureen Neilly. Administrator, Altnagelvin Hospital. For services to Healthcare and to the community in Northern Ireland. (Londonderry)

Charles Peter Nelson. Formerly Teacher of Humanities and Duke of Edinburgh's Award Co-ordinator, Woodrush High School. For services to Education. (Worcestershire)

Edward Albert Neville. For charitable services through the Cardinal Hume Centre in the City of Westminster. (London)

Mrs Diana Nicholls. For services to the community in Newton Abbot, South Devon. (Newton Abbot, Devon)

David Nicholson. Manager E, HMP and Young Offenders Institute, Norwich. For services to the Rehabilitation of Prisoners. (Eye, Suffolk)

Mrs Mary Nicolson. Chair, Blackburn Family Centre. For services to the community in Blackburn, West Lothian. (Blackburn, West Lothian)

Professor Deryck Neill Nuttall. For services to the community in Taunton Somerset. (Taunton, Somerset)

Stephen O'Keeffe. Fundraiser. For charitable services. (Blackpool, Lancashire)

Robert James Oliver. Porter, Dove Marine Laboratory, University of Newcastle and Coxswain, Cullercoats Lifeboat. For services to Higher Education and to the community of Cullercoats. (North Shields, Tyne and Wear)

Mrs Rosemary Pack. District president, Castle Point Girl Guides and Fundraiser, Motor Neurone Disease, Benfleet, Essex. For services to Young People and Charitable Fundraising. (Benfleet, Essex)

Mrs Mandy Painter. Fundraiser. For services to Seriously Ill Children through The Starlight Children's Foundation. (Bridgnorth, Shropshire)

Jit Pal. For services to charity and to the community in Southall London Borough of Ealing. (Slough, Berkshire)

Alan George Parry. Volunteer chairman, Lion Youth Club, Hoxton, London. For services to Children and Young People. (Essex)

Albert Leonard Patient. Volunteer, South Benfleet Primary School. For services to Education. (Benfleet, Essex)

Miss Natasha Eve Pearson. PE Teacher, Balby Carr Sports and Science College. For services to Education and for voluntary service to Children with Disabilities through Shine and Smile. (Huddersfield, West Yorkshire)

Mrs Margaret Ruth Perryman. For services to the community in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. (St Ives, Cambridgeshire)

Dr Arnold Lionel Phelops. For charitable services. (London)

Michael Picknett. Lifeboat Helmsman, RNLI. For services to Maritime Safety. (Redcar, North Yorkshire)

Duncan Arnold Pigg. For services to the community in Hethersett Norfolk. (Norwich, Norfolk)

Col Richard Anthony Pinder. For services to the Fovant Bages Society and to the community in Fovant Wiltshire. (Salisbury, Wiltshire)

Lino Pires. For services to charity and to the community in Priors Hardwick Warwickshire. (Southam, Warwickshire)

Michael John Pitt. For services to the Royal Air Force and to the community in Woolacombe Devon. (Woolacombe, Devon)

David Charles Treherne Pollock. Chairman, Restoration of Appearance and Function Trust Charity. For charitable services to Reconstructive Plastic Surgery. (London)

Martyn Stafford Poole. For services to the community in Downend South Gloucestershire. (Bristol)

John Charles Poore. For charitable services. (High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire)

Ralph Porter. For services to the community in Reeth North Yorkshire. (North Yorkshire)

Howard James Potter. For services to the community in Shere Surrey. (Guildford, Surrey)

Mrs Eileen Price. For services to the community in the Garw Valley, Bridgend. (Bridgend)

Mrs Wendy Price. Manager and Supervisor, Llangrove Leapfrogs Childcare and Girl Guide Leader, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. For services to Children, Young People and Families. (Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire)

Mrs Ann Lesley Priestman. For services to the community in Shelley, West Yorkshire. (Huddersfield, West Yorkshire)

Geoffrey Roy Prince. For services to the community through Will to Work in Frodsham Cheshire. (Frodsham, Cheshire)

Councillor George Alan Prosper. For services to the community in Lisvane Cardiff. (Cardiff)

Ms Julia Caroline Quilliam. For services to the community in the London Borough of Hounslow. (Middlesex)

Riaz Ravat. Deputy director, St Philip's Centre, Leicester. For services to Interfaith Understanding in Leicester. (Leicestershire)

Mrs Hazel Rayson. Dance Teacher and Founder, Hazel Rayson Theatre Dance School. For services to Dance in the Tyneside area. (Blaydon, Tyne and Wear)

Mrs Margaret Reid. For services to the community in Northern Ireland. (Bangor, Down)

Michael George Reid. For charitable services in Fife and Angus. (Cupar, Fife)

Mrs Rita Rhodes. For services to the community in Welbeck, Nottinghamshire. (Worksop, Nottinghamshire)

Mrs Pamela Molly Richards. For services to the community in Foxhole, Cornwall. (St Austell, Cornwall)

Mrs Maureen Richardson. For services to the community in Halton, Lancashire. (Lancaster, Lancashire)

Miss Rosemary Ritchie. Volunteer, Queensferry RNLI Shop. For services to Maritime Safety. (Queensferry, West Lothian)

Mrs Valerie Gwendoline Robb. Member, Downshire School Parent Teachers Association, Carrickfergus. For services to Education in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. (Carrickfergus, Antrim)

Mrs Sheila Roberts. For services to the community in Buckley, Flintshire. (Mold, Flintshire)

Mrs Elizabeth Jane Robinson. For services to the community in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. (Abingdon, Oxfordshire)

Mrs Jacqueline Sylvia Rowley. For services to the Eastleigh Friends of People With a Learning Disability, Hampshire. (Eastleigh, Hampshire)

Alexander Russell. For services to the community in Kinglassie Fife. (Lochgelly, Fife)

Mrs Doris Amy May Russell. For services to the community in Colaton Raleigh, East Devon. (Sidmouth, Devon)

Mrs Barbara Elaine Sabin. For services to the Salvation Army and to the community in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. (Rotherham, South Yorkshire)

Ernest Edward Sangster. For voluntary service to the community in Banchory Aberdeenshire. (Banchory, Aberdeenshire)

John Alston Scott. For services to the communities in Strensall and York North Yorkshire. (York, North Yorkshire)

Mrs Mary Rose Paula Scott. Complementary Therapist, Northern Ireland Hospice. For services to Healthcare in Northern Ireland. (Belfast)

Christopher John Sellars. For services to Swimming Coaching in Derbyshire. (Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

Richard Frank Sharrott. For charitable services in Nuneaton Warwickshire. (Nuneaton, Warwickshire)

Michael Lewis Shore. President, Bristol and District Rugby Football Combination. For services to Community Rugby in South West England. (Bristol)

Roger John Shorter. For services to the community in Churchill Oxfordshire. (Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire)

Donald Simms. Yeoman, Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College. For services to the community in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. (London)

Peter William Skellon. For voluntary service to the RAF Association Concert Band. (Weston-super-Mare, Somerset)

Humphrey Paul Sladden. For services to the community in South Harting West Sussex. (West Sussex)

Mrs Evelyn May Slater. Prison Officer, HMP Bullingdon. For services to HM Prison Service. (Bicester, Oxfordshire)

Mrs Jean Slater. For voluntary service to St. John Ambulance in Derbyshire. (Clay Cross, Derbyshire)

Mrs Lilan May Smallshaw. For services to the community in Seend, Wiltshire. (Melksham, Wiltshire)

Arthur Hoyle Smith. For services to Christ-Church Walmersley Lancashire. (Bury, Greater Manchester)

Mrs Eunice Smith. Head of Constituency Finance, Conservative Central Headquarters. For political service. (Epsom, Surrey)

Mrs Freda Smith. For services to the community in Leyland, Lancashire. (Leyland, Lancashire)

Mrs Barbara Snowling. For services to the community in Crafthole, Cornwall. (Torpoint, Cornwall)

Mrs Patricia Anne Spencer. Chair of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Area Nursing and Midwifery Committee. For services to Nursing in Glasgow. (Gartcosh, Glasgow)

Mrs Diana Spokes. Fundraiser, RNLI Bourne End Fundraising Branch. For services to Maritime Safety. (Bourne End, Buckinghamshire)

Mrs Janet Ann Stangroom. For services to the community in Whissonsett, Norfolk. (Dereham, Norfolk)

Col Alan Ronald Tapp. For voluntary service to SSAFA Forces Help in Stirlingshire. (Stirling, Stirling and Falkirk)

Peter Holden Taylor. For services to the community and to charity in Ipswich Suffolk. (Woodbridge, Suffolk)

Mrs Mary Christine Thomas. For charitable services and to the community in Bowdon, Cheshire. (Altrincham, Greater Manchester)

Mrs Ethel Elizabeth Thompson. For services to the community in Blacon, Cheshire. (Chester, Cheshire)

Mrs Michelle Thompson. For services to charity and to the community in Darlington, Durham. (Darlington, Durham)

Douglas Terence William Thornhill. For services to People with Disabilities and to the community in Basingstoke Hampshire. (Basingstoke, Hampshire)

Ms Valerie Raleigh Thornhill. Founder, VISTA. For services to Adult Education in East Yorkshire. (Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire)

Mark Anthony Todd. Accessibility manager, LOCOG. For services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. (Stretford, Greater Manchester)

Malcolm Torry. For services to Sailing and to People with Disabilities through Carsington Sailability in Derbyshire. (Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

Mrs Patricia Anne Town, JP. For services to the community in Steyning, West Sussex. (Steyning, West Sussex)

Mrs Lorraine Anne Tucker. For voluntary service to The City of Plymouth Children Fund and to the community in Devon. (Torquay, Devon)

Mrs Joan Villiers. For charitable services in Yorkshire and Humberside through Sports Aid and Heart Research UK. (Leeds, West Yorkshire)

Mrs Patricia Wagstaff. Volunteer, Sobell House Hospice, Oxford. For services to charity. (Nr Abington, Oxfordshire)

Mrs Rosalynde Walker. Co-Founder, North East Promenaders Against Cancer. For charitable services to People with Cancer. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear)

Mrs Richelle Walsh. Customer Service assistant, Northern Rail Greenfield Station. For services to the Rail Industry and to the community in Oldham. (Oldham, Greater Manchester)

Mrs Mary Geraldine Wardle. For services to the community in Milltown, Derbyshire. (Chesterfield, Derbyshire)

Mrs Helen Mary Watkins. For services to the community in Mudford, Somerset. (Yeovil, Somerset)

Robert Watson. For services to the community in Chester- Le-Street Durham. (Chester le Street, Durham)

Mrs Penelope Weston-Webb. For services to the community in Cossington, Leicestershire. (Leicestershire)

Dr John Barron Webster. For services to Journalism. (Netherlee, Glasgow)

Mrs Shirley Daisy West. Volunteer, British Heart Foundation. For services to charity. (Guildford, Surrey)

Thomas Westall. Scout Leader and School Governor, Lytham St Annes. For services to Children and Young People. (Lytham St Annes, Lancashire)

Robert Ernest Wheatley. For services to the community in Baycliff Cumbria. (Ulverston, Cumbria)

Miss Wendy Bartlett White. For services to Netball in Wales. (Cardiff)

Christopher Howard Wilby. Formerly Executive director, Scarborough YMCA. For services to Young People. (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)

Mrs Shirley Williams. For services to Music, the community in West Wales and charitable services. (Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire)

Mrs Elizabeth Gordon Williamson. Ophthalmology Charge Nurse, NHS Borders. For services to Ophthalmology in the Scottish Borders. (Selkirk, Roxburgh Ettrick and Lauderdale)

Mrs Irene Alice Wills. For services to the Pisces Swimming Club and to the community in Plymouth, Devon. (Plymouth, Devon)

Mrs June Wilson. For services to the community in Brampton, Cambridgeshire. (Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire)

Geoffrey William Winter. For services to Music and to the community in Grantham Lincolnshire. (Grantham, Lincolnshire)

Ernest Edmond Wyer. For services to the community in Morton and Hanthorpe Lincolnshire. (Bourne, Lincolnshire)

Mrs Gwenyth Anne Yarker. Curator and Trustee, Dorset County Museum. For services to Museums. (Dorchester, Dorset)

Mrs Eileen Younghusband. For services to Lifelong Learning in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.

DIPLOMATIC SERVICE AND OVERSEAS LIST

ORDER OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE

DCMG

Dr DeAnne Shirley Julius, CBE. Formerly Chair, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House. For services to international relations.

KCMG

Robert Francis Cooper, CMG, MVO. Formerly Counsellor, European External Action Service. For services to international peace and security.

Iain Robert Lobban, CB. Director, Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). For services to UK national security.

CMG

Professor William Robert Duncan. Formerly Deputy secretary General, The Hague Conference, Private International Law. For services to the development of international law, particularly international child protection.

Charles Peter Grant. Director, the Centre for European Reform. For services to European and wider international policy-making.

Robert Peter Hannigan. Director general, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to UK national security.

Simon Charles Martin. Formerly Protocol director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and vice-Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps. For services to UK diplomatic interests.

Mrs Karen Anne Sage McFarlane. Information Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to information security.

Andrew Jonathan Mitchell. Formerly director, London 2012 Olympics, Paralympics and GREAT Campaign, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and to UK diplomatic interests.

Timothy Giles Paxman. HM Ambassador, Spain. For services to UK interests in Spain and Mexico.

John Andrew Raine, OBE. Director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to international diplomacy.

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

CBE

Professor Raymond Allen Dwek. Professor of Glycobiology, Oxford University. For services to UK/Israel scientific collaboration.

Mrs Penelope Jane Egan. Executive director, Fulbright Commission. For services to international education.

OBE

Moses Olufemi Anibaba. Director and Cluster Leader West Africa, British Council Ghana. For services to UK cultural interests in West Africa.

Richard John Vandeleur Beatty. British Honorary Consul, Arusha, Tanzania. For services to British interests in Tanzania.

Ms Kate Ewart-Biggs. Formerly Regional head, Middle East and North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia British Council. For services to UK cultural interests.

Henry David Bolton. Stabilisation Team Leader, Provincial Reconstruction Team, Helmand, Afghanistan. For services to international security and stabilisation.

Michael Denzil Carn. Formerly Committee Member, Commercial Anglo-Dutch Society. For services to British business, culture and charity work in the Netherlands.

Duncan Lewis John Clark. Formerly chairman, British Chamber of Commerce in China. For services to British commercial interests in China.

Mrs Jennifer Louise Cole. First secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to kidnap resolution.

James Robert Philip Collins. First secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to UK Consular interests.

Mrs Trina Davies. Managing director, Fil Anglo, Manila, The Philippines. For services to British commercial interests in The Philippines.

Ms Tacita Charlotte Dean. Visual Artist. For services to British Art overseas.

Leonard Norman Ebanks, JP. Member, Anti-Corruption Commission, Cayman Islands. For services to economic development and to the community in the Cayman Islands.

William John Eldred Evans. Formerly Counsellor, British Embassy, Bucharest, Romania. For services to UK interests in Romania.

John Justin Felice. Formerly assistant commissioner of Police and head of Anti-Corruption Branch, Jamaica Constabulary Force. For services to UK and Jamaican national security.

Mrs Eleanor Mary Fuller. Formerly UK permanent Representative, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France. For services to human rights and diplomacy.

Philip Tulloch Gibb. Formerly president, British Chamber of Commerce, Japan. For services to British business in Japan.

Leslie Green. Formerly assistant commissioner of Police and head of Crime, Jamaica Constabulary Force. For services to UK and Jamaican national security.

Simon Anthony Greenall. Textbook writer. For services to English language teaching.

Alistair James Harris. Director, Pursue Ltd. For services to promoting stability in the Lebanon and Middle East region.

Neil Marius Jacobsen. Counsellor, British High Commission, Islamabad, Pakistan. For services to UK interests in Pakistan.

Ms Lucy Rebecca Joyce. Formerly head, London 2012 Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

David Harry Kustow. Formerly Chair, UK Jewish Film. For services to film in the UK and British/Israeli Film Co-operation.

Jeffrey Larkin. Director Power and Water Middle East, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Abu Dhabi, UAE. For services to reconstruction in Iraq.

Anthony John Lawrence. Member, Advisory Committee, International Social Service, Hong Kong. For services to the community in Hong Kong.

Mrs Lillian Estelle Swann-Misick. Formerly Chair, Consultative Forum, Turks and Caicos Islands. For services to the reform of the administration of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Daniel Edward Salbstein. Formerly Member, Great Britain-Russia Society. For services to promoting UK/Russia mutual understanding.

Mrs Alison Kathleen Shalaby. Chief executive Officer of Reunite. For services to the prevention and resolution of international parental child abduction.

Mrs Leslie Simpson. Founder, Roundabout Charity Distribution Store, Beijing, China. For services to charity and philanthropy in China.

Martin John Stanford. Formerly Deputy secretary General, International Institute for the Unification of Private Law, Rome, Italy. For services to the international unification of law.

Professor Penelope Harriet Ur. Formerly Associate Professor, Oranim Academic College, and Board member, English Teachers Association, Israel. For services to English language teaching.

Colin Cadell Wagstaff. Chairman, Kings World Trust for Children, South India. For services to education and young communities in southern India.

Derek Antony Ruffel Walton. Legal Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to human rights and diplomacy.

Louis Wink, CPM. Formerly commissioner, Royal Gibraltar Police. For services to policing and to the community in Gibraltar.

Thomas Rathmell Woodroffe. Formerly head, Opportunities Team, London 2012 Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Timothy Paul James Wright. President, British American Business Council, Los Angeles, USA. For services to British business interests in the USA.

MBE

Mrs Lisa Ann Ashton. Founder, the Winnie Mabaso Foundation. For services to the victims of HIV/AIDS, particularly children, in South Africa.

Philip John Bowell. Formerly chief executive Officer, Bahrain Airport Services, Bahrain. For services to British industry and to the community in Bahrain.

Keith Dudley Brook. Voluntary worker, The Peace Garden School, Nepal. For services to charitable work in Nepal.

Ms Katharine Charlotte Deirdre Brownlow. Co-Founder and managing director, Optimoz Ltd. For services to the prevention of malaria in Mozambique.

Miss Rhian Francis Chilcott. International director, the Confederation of British Industry, and director, British/American Business Association, Washington. For services to British industry.

Richard John Corrigan. Formerly Immigration Liaison manager, UK Border Agency, British High Commission, Islamabad, Pakistan. For services to UK border control.

Ms Natalie Crentsil. Third secretary Political, British Embassy, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. For services to UK interests in Somaliland.

Miss Lorna Katherine Davies. Formerly International Co-ordinator, London 2012 Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to UK prosperity and security for London 2012.

Miss Rebecca Anne Davies. Formerly International Co-ordinator, London 2012 Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to UK prosperity and security for London 2012.

Paul James Dryden. Formerly Entry Clearance manager, UK Border Agency, British Embassy, Kuwait. For services to UK prosperity.

Nicholas Cochrane-Dyet. Deputy Chair, British Business Group, Abu Dhabi, UAE. For services to British business and to charitable work in the UAE.

David John Elliott. Director Arts, British Council, China. For services to UK cultural interests in China.

Mrs Rebie Elizabeth Fennell. Executive Committee Member, British/Tanzania Society. For services to UK/Tanzania relations.

Ronald Henry Stokes Fennell. Executive Committee Member, British/Tanzania Society. For services to UK/Tanzania relations.

Mrs Winifred Norah Harrison. Consular Correspondent, Maun, Botswana. For services to the British community in Maun, Botswana.

Mrs Susan Claire Hart. Founder, Neema Crafts, Tanzania. For services to disabled people in Tanzania.

Ms Lori Henderson. Executive director, British Chamber of Commerce, Japan. For services to post-earthquake reconstruction and to the British business community in Japan.

Mrs Angela Keay. Voluntary worker. For services to the British community in Spain.

Miss Trudi Michelle Kennedy. Second secretary, Consular Directorate, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to consular assistance to the families of kidnap victims.

Andrew Charles Kingman. Charity director, MICAIA Foundation, Mozambique. For services to community development in Mozambique.

Richard Labrador. Health and Safety consultant, Gibraltar. For services to health and safety in Gibraltar.

Mrs Susan Jane Lord. Third secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to the development of information technology.

Graham Harold MacDonald. Formerly chairman, British Chamber of Commerce, Thailand. For services to British business interests in Thailand.

Mrs Mary Doreen Missick. Human Rights commissioner and lately Member, Advisory Council, Turks and Caicos Islands. For services to human rights and to the reform of the administration of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Detective Chief Inspector Mark Moles. Metropolitan Police Service. For services to UK consular interests.

Henry David Muttoo. Artistic director, Cayman National Cultural Foundation, Cayman Islands. For services to art and cultural heritage in the Cayman Islands.

Ms Maria Francesca Noronha. Senior Institutional Adviser, Government of Iraq. For services to development in Iraq.

David Oakley. Second secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to UK diplomacy.

Miss Jessica Philips. Second secretary, Somalia Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to promoting security in Somalia.

Guy Sephton Pollard Uk. Deputy permanent Representative, Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, Switzerland. For services to humanitarian arms control and the Arms Trade Treaty.

Mrs Phyllis Mary Rendell. Formerly director, Mineral Resources, Falkland Islands. For services to Falkland Islands interests.

Raymond Clarke Roberts. For services to promoting the work of Bletchley Park and to codebreaking.

Ms Janette Sonia Salter. Founder, Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre. For services to animal welfare in Nepal.

Ian David Sargent. Superintendent of Prisons, Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands. For services to the development of the prison service in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Mrs Miriam Theresa Mason-Sesay. Country director, EducAid, Sierra Leone. For services to education and to charitable work in Sierra Leone.

Richard Sexton. Charity worker. For services to UK charitable work, particularly for children and to the British and Commonwealth community in New York.

David Francis Spearing. Board member, British Business Group, Abu Dhabi, UAE. For services to British business and to the British community in Abu Dhabi.

John Andrew Douglas Symington. British Honorary Consul, Oporto, Portugal. For services to the British community in northern Portugal.

Dominic Robbie Taylor. Third secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to promoting UK diplomatic interests.

Mark Stuart Templar. Formerly head, GREAT Campaign, London 2012 Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. For services to promoting Britain abroad.

Mrs Fatima Vanicek. Formerly Membership secretary and assistant to the director general, Royal Over-Seas League. For services to the Commonwealth.

Miss Charlotte Rebecca Vine. Formerly Housekeeper, Dorneywood. For services to UK consular interests.

Ms Nicola Suzanne Woodget. Formerly Second secretary, British Embassy, Kuwait. For services to UK interests in Iraq and Kuwait.

Mrs Caroline Jean Yon. Station director, European Space Agency, Ascension Island. For services to the community in Ascension Island.

Giorgio Octavio Zanol. Charity fundraiser, Bermuda Diabetes Association. For services to the community and to charitable work in Bermuda.

BRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL

BEM

Mrs Latifa Edmonds. Formerly commissioner of Girlguiding, Gibraltar. For services to Girlguiding and to the community in Gibraltar.

Albert Arthur Elson. Branch secretary, Royal British Legion, Thailand. For services to the British community in Thailand.

Miss Rosemary Gibson. British-Peruvian International College. For services to education in Peru.

John Christopher Joseph O'Brien. Voluntary worker. For services to the community in Ireland.

Kenneth Erwin Scotland. Community worker. For services to the community in Montserrat.

COMMONWEALTH

ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

OBE

Stephans Theodore Alexis Winter. For Public Service.

MBE

Dr The Reverend Edmund Green. For Public Service.

Mrs Genevieve Smith. For Public Service.

QUEEN'S POLICE MEDAL

QPM

Assistant Commissioner of Police Wilhelm Samuels. For services to the Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda.

Inspector Hyacinth Simon. For services to the Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda.

QUEEN'S FIRE SERVICE MEDAL

QFSM

Assistant Commissioner Sylvester Llewellyn Jackson. For services as head of the Antigua and Barbuda Fire Service.

BARBADOS

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

CBE

Ms Shirley Vivian Bell. For public service and services to the legal profession.

Everson Robinson Elcock. For service to business.

Charles Emile Straker. For services to tourism and to the music industry in Barbados.

OBE

Ms Joan Lorraine Blackett. For services to education.

Anthony DeVere Browne. For services to industry and culture.

Larry McDonald Mayers. For services to broadcasting.

MBE

Victor DaCosta Farrell. For services in the field of medical laboratory technology in Barbados and other Caribbean countries.

Robert Jeffery Kinch. For services to tourism and hospitality.

Ms Arlene Eleanor Miller. For services to the financial sector.

BELIZE

CBE

Denys Arthur Barrow. For services to law and education.

MBE

Patrick Alexander Bernard. For public service and his contribution to good governances.

Pen Cayetano. For services to music and art.

Ms Cristina Hyde. For services to education and to the community.

COOK ISLANDS

OBE

Mrs Te Maeu O Te Rangi Teikamata Ariki Mii Tungane Upokoati O'Bryan. For services to the public and community.

MBE

Mrs Jane Kimi Kaina. For services to the public and community.

BRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL

BEM

Terae Akai. For services to the Church and the community.

Taamo Charlie Roi. For services to the public and the community.

GRENADA

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

MBE

Mrs Earldine Denese Joyce Alexander. For public service.

Ms Sheila De Silva. For public service.

BRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL

BEM

Ms Catherine Joseph. For public service.

SAINT CHRISTOPHER AND NEVIS

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

OBE

Dr James E. Williams. For Public Service.

MBE

Franklyn Anderson Browne. For services to education.

SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES

ORDER OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE

CMG

Mrs Leila Euphemia Greaves. For services to business and to the community.

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

OBE

Dr Roslyn Eartha Ambrose. For services to medicine.

Elroy Raymond John. For services to banking.

MBE

Renold Adolphus Hadaway. For services to the Royal Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force and to law and order.

Moulton Theophilus Mayers. For services to architecture and to community work.

Gideon Raymond Browne. For services to the construction industry and to the private sector.

SOLOMON ISLANDS

OBE

The Right Reverend Thaba James Philip Mason. For services to the Anglican Church of Melanesia and community affairs.

Henry Tom. For services to both the National and Provincial Government and to the people of West Kwaio constituency.

George Cheuk Ping Tong, MBE. For services to the private sector.

MBE

Chief Ambrose Huhugu Bugotu. For services to the Anglican Church of Melanesia Solomon Islands Planned Parenthood and to community affairs.

Mrs Edrie Tahioa Indu. For services to education, in particular Chung Wah School.

Ishmael Tavasi. For public service and service to the people of Gella.

Ezekiel Philip Theodi. For services to the health service and to community affairs.

Chief Edward Vunagi. For services to education to Isabel Provincial Government, and to community affairs.

John Wong. For services to commerce forestry, and to the rural community enterprise.

QUEEN'S POLICE MEDAL

QPM

Sgt Patricia Leta. Royal Solomon Islands Police Force.

Nathaniel Virintire Mosese. For services to the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force.

CROWN DEPENDENCIES - JERSEY

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

MBE

Dr Margaret Joyce Bayes. For services to the community, particularly as Founder and Chairman, Jersey Association of Carers Incorporated.

The Reverend David Michael Shaw. For services to people in Kenya, particularly within the Diocese of Mombasa.

BRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL

BEM

David Moody. For services to the Jersey Sea Cadet Corps (TS Jersey).

CROWN DEPENDENCIES - GUERNSEY

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

MBE

Jurat Michael John Tanguy. For Public and Voluntary Service to Guernsey.

BRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL

BEM

Mrs Ilona Ute Soane-Sands. For Voluntary and Public Service to Alderney.

CROWN DEPENDENCIES - ISLE OF MAN

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

OBE

Michael John Langdon, QPM. For services to policing.

MBE

Mrs June Winifred Evans. For services to motorcycling welfare.

BRITISH EMPIRE MEDAL

BEM

Hector McDonald Hugh Duff. For services to the Manx Veterans community and education.

MILITARY DIVISION - ROYAL NAVY

ORDER OF THE BATH

KCB

Vice Admiral Andrew David Hugh Mathews, CB.

CB

Vice Admiral Charles Anthony Johnstone-Burt, OBE. Royal Navy.

Rear Admiral Simon Robert Lister Obe. Royal Navy.

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

CBE

Rear Admiral Simon Boyce Charlier.

Col Matthew Edward Porter, OBE. Royal Marines.

OBE

Capt Andrew Betton. Royal Navy.

Lt Col Nicholas John Grace. Royal Marines.

Cdr Timorthy Mark Hulme.

Surgeon Cdr Anthony Wayne Lambert. Royal Navy.

Commodore Richard William Mason. Royal Navy.

Commodore James Mark Slawson. Royal Navy.

MBE

WO Class 1 Warfare Specialist (Abovewater Warfare Weapons) Paul Michael Stewart Barker.

Cdr Nigel David Bond. Royal Navy.

Lt Cdr Christopher Paul Canning. Royal Navy.

Lt Cdr Damian Andrew Giles Exworthy. Royal Navy.

Lt Cdr Terence Gillard. Royal Naval Reserve (Sea Cadet Corps).

WO Class 1 Warfare Specialist (Abovewater Warfare Tactical) James Edward Hall.

Lt Cdr Thomas Maxwell Philip Henderson. Royal Navy.

Lt Cdr Rodney Leslie Lester. Royal Navy.

Lt Cdr Brian Meadows. Royal Naval Reserve.

WO Class 1 Annette Eileen Penfold. Royal Naval Reserve.

WO Class 1 David John Roach, QGM. Royal Marines.

WO Class 1 (Air Engineering Technician) David Alun Rowlands.

WO Class 1 Simon Tottle. Royal Marines.

CBE

Commodore William Michael Walworth, OBE. Royal Fleet Auxiliary.

QUEEN'S VOLUNTEER RESERVES MEDAL

QVRM

Lt Cdr (Acting Cdr) Simon Roscoe Cottam, RD. Royal Naval Reserve.

MILITARY DIVISION - ARMY

ORDER OF THE BATH

KCB

Lt Gen James Jeffrey Corfield Bucknall, CBE. Late Coldstream Guards.

CB

Maj Gen Shaun Alex Burley, MBE. Late Corps of Royal Engineers.

Maj Gen Ian Martin Copeland. Late The Royal Logistic Corps.

Maj Gen Gregory Stephen Smith, QVRM, TD, DL. Late The Royal Green Jackets, Territorial Army.

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

CBE

Col Gareth Paul Collett. Late The Royal Logistic Corps.

Brig Peter Andrew Fox. Late Royal Regiment of Artillery.

Brig Edward Oliver Forster-Knight, OBE. Late Adjutant General's Corps (Royal Military Police).

Brig John Craig Lawrence, MBE. Late The Royal Gurkha Rifles.

OBE

Lt Col Barry William Bennett, MBE. Royal Regiment of Artillery.

Lt Col Ian Miles Comerford. Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

Lt Col Robert James Healey. Royal Corps of Signals.

Col Garry Hearn. Late Royal Corps of Signals.

Lt Col Peter Michael Little. The Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Col Nicholas Charles Tristram Millen. Late The Royal Dragoon Guards.

Lt Col Timothy Marc Piers Mountford. Intelligence Corps.

Lt Col Robin Charles Smith. The Royal Logistic Corps.

Col Roger John Nathaniel Stewart. Late Corps of Royal Engineers.

Lt Col Simon Philip Stockley. Corps of Royal Engineers.

Lt Col Neil Unsworth. The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.

Col Murray Courtenay Whiteside, MBE. Late Army Air Corps.

MBE

Staff Sgt Christopher Charles Attrill. The Royal Irish Regiment, Territorial Army.

Maj Kenneth Harry Baker. The Royal Logistic Corps.

Maj Joanna Jane Brain. Adjutant General's Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch).

Bombardier Alexander Robert Buchanan. Royal Regiment of Artillery.

WO Class 1 Robert James Collins. The Parachute Regiment.

Lt Col Andrew Jonathan Deans. Adjutant General's Corps (Educational and Training Services Branch).

Maj Leigh James Drummond. The Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Lt Col Paul John Edwards. The Royal Logistic Corps.

Maj Alastair Neil Field. The Rifles.

Maj Darren John Fisher. The Royal Logistic Corps.

Cpl (Acting Sgt) Terry John Fitzgerald. Royal Corps of Signals.

Capt Andrew James Fletcher. Intelligence Corps.

WO Class 2 James Alexander Ford. Adjutant General's Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch), Territorial Army.

WO Class 2 Christopher James Fuller. Corps of Royal Engineers.

Maj Frederick William Greenhow. Royal Regiment of Artillery.

Maj Rowena Charlotte Griffiths. Adjutant General's Corps (Staff and Personnel Support Branch).

Maj Charles Edward Digby Grist. The Rifles.

Maj Barry Heap. Corps of Royal Engineers.

Maj Cameron Arthur Hill. The Royal Logistic Corps, Territorial Army.

Maj Steven Robin Hook. The Royal Logistic Corps.

WO Class 2 Leslie John Hunt. Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.

Capt (Acting Maj) Christian Glyndwr Lamb. The Rifles.

Capt (Acting Maj) Guy William John Lock. Coldstream Guards.

Maj Matthew John Frederick Middleditch, QGM. The Royal Logistic Corps.

Lt Col Stephen John Morgan. Royal Corps of Signals.

Staff Sgt Stuart Andrew Nash. Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.

Maj Andrew James Parker. The Royal Logistic Corps.

Lance Bombardier Benjamin James Parkinson. Royal Regiment of Artillery.

Maj Hemchandra Rai, BEM. Adjutant General's Corps (Gurkha Staff and Personnel Support Branch).

Maj Fabian Andrew David Lechmere Roberts, MVO. Irish Guards.

Lt Col Brian Mackenzie Ross. The Royal Regiment of Scotland.

Maj Robert Sadler. Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry, Territorial Army.

Capt Andrew James Sanger. Corps of Royal Engineers.

Maj Mathew Timothy James Short. Corps of Royal Engineers.

Capt Martyn Jonathan Thompson. Royal Army Veterinary Corps.

Maj Mark Lloyd Welham. The Royal Welsh.

Capt Nicholas Simon Wilson. The Yorkshire Regiment.

Maj Kevin Young. Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army.

QUEEN'S VOLUNTEER RESERVES MEDAL

QVRM

Maj (Local Lt Col) Stephen Wyatt Bartlett, TD. The Rifles, Territorial Army.

Brig Simon Michael John Bell, TD. Late The Cheshire Regiment, Territorial Army.

Maj Philip Guy Davis. Corps of Royal Engineers, Territorial Army.

Chaplain to the Forces 3rd Class The Reverend Louis Kinsey, TD. Royal Army Chaplains' Department, Territorial Army.

Sgt Sonja McCoy. Royal Corps of Signals, Territorial Army.

MILITARY DIVISION - ROYAL AIR FORCE

ORDER OF THE BATH

KCB

Air Marshal Timothy Michael Anderson, CB, DSO. Royal Air Force.

Air Marshal Andrew Douglas Pulford, CBE. Royal Air Force.

CB

The Venerable (Air Vice-Marshal) Raymond Jackson Pentland. Royal Air Force.

Air Vice-Marshal Julian Alexander Young, OBE. Royal Air Force.

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

CBE

Air Commodore Nigel Philip Beet, OBE. Royal Air Force.

Group Capt Domonic Anthony Stamp. Royal Air Force.

Air Commodore Margaret Elaine West. Royal Air Force.

OBE

Wing Cdr Roderick Alexander Boundy. Royal Air Force.

Wing Cdr Roderick John Dennis. Royal Air Force.

Wing Cdr Christopher John Fisher. Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Training).

Group Capt James Cameron McGregor Johnston. Royal Air Force.

Group Capt Michael Dawson Lavender. Royal Air Force.

Wing Cdr Justine Elizabeth Morton. Royal Air Force.

Wing Cdr Stephen Michael Robert Ward, MBE. Royal Air Force.

MBE

Flt Lt Timothy Alexander Barlow. Royal Air Force.

Chief Technician David Jeremy Briggs. Royal Air Force.

Sqn Ldr Benjamin John Clark. Royal Air Force.

Sgt Benjamin David Crossley. Royal Air Force.

Sqn Ldr Glynis Mary Dean. Royal Air Force, 9116E.

WO Kevin John Patrick Foxwell. Royal Air Force.

Sqn Ldr Phillip Leslie Jones. Royal Air Force.

Sqn Ldr Tal Thomas Adam Lambert. Royal Air Force.

Flt Sgt Dale Edward Spencer Woolman-Lane. Royal Air Force.

Flt Sgt Martin Alan Purvis. Royal Air Force.

Sqn Ldr Simon Edward Reade. Royal Air Force.

Flt Sgt Derek Charles Smith. Royal Air Force.

Chief Technician Barry John Stringer. Royal Air Force.

WO Paul Wheable. Royal Air Force.

WO David John Woodhead. Royal Air Force.

QUEEN'S VOLUNTEER RESERVES MEDAL

QVRM

WO Maureen Kendall. Royal Auxiliary Air Force.

SUNDRIES

OVERSEAS TERRITORIES POLICE AND FIRE SERVICE MEDAL

Emilio Acris. Superintendent, Royal Gibraltar Police.

Ms Elizabeth Gomez. Constable, Royal Gibraltar Police.

QUEEN'S POLICE MEDAL

QPM

ENGLAND AND WALES

Francis Jeremy Armstrong. Formerly assistant commissioner, City of London Police.

James Kenneth Busby. Chief Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Service.

Mrs Jacqueline Elizabeth Crank. Detective Constable, Cheshire Constabulary.

Howard John Crowther. Detective chief Superintendent,West Yorkshire Police.

Michael Cunningham. Chief Constable, Staffordshire Police.

James Henry Engelbach. Constable, Metropolitan Police Service.

Mark Gilmore. Deputy chief Constable, Northumbria Police.

Philip Michael Gormley. Chief Constable, Norfolk Police.

David Griffin. Deputy chief Constable, Humberside Police.

Sophocles (Jack) Ioannou. Police Inspector, British Transport Police.

Mrs Ingrid Lee. Temporary assistant chief Constable, West Yorkshire Police.

Mrs Pamela Jean Mace. Detective Superintendent, Metropolitan Police Service.

Surjeet Manku. Chief Superintendent, West Midlands Police.

Michael Bryan Matthews. Temporary chief Constable, Gloucestershire Police.

Ms Jackie Roberts. Temporary chief Constable, Dyfed Powys Police.

Philip Antony Shakesheff. Inspector, West Mercia Police.

Thomas Simmons. Formerly Detective Constable, Metropolitan Police Service (transferred to CEOP).

Peter Vaughan. Chief Constable, South Wales Police.

SCOTLAND

Andrew Barker. Chief Constable, Fife Constabulary.

George Graham. Chief Constable, Northern Constabulary.

David O'Connor. Chief Superintendent, Northern Constabulary.

NORTHERN IRELAND

Steven Atkinson. Sergeant, Police Service of Northern Ireland.

James Richard Harkness. Temporary Detective chief inspector, Police Service of Northern Ireland.

Philip Menary. Inspector, Police Service of Northern Ireland.

QUEEN'S FIRE SERVICE MEDAL

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ENGLAND AND WALES

Christopher Patrick Boulton. Senior Adviser to the chief Fire and Rescue Adviser, Department for Communities and Local Government.

Ms Glynis Brenda Lomax. Head of the Operational Intelligence Unit.

Gary John Reason. Director of Operational Resilience and Training for services to the Olympics.

Colin Charles Rockey. Group manager, Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service.

SCOTLAND

Ronald Beedie. Watch manager, Grampian Fire and Rescue Service.

David Millar. Acting chief Officer, Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue Service.

QUEEN'S AMBULANCE SERVICE MEDAL

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ENGLAND AND WALES

Michael Collins. Assistant director, Workforce Development, Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust.

Raymond Edensor. Paramedic, West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

Hayden Phillip Newton. Chief executive, East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

SCOTLAND

Gary Hardacre. Head of Risk and Resilience, Scottish Ambulance Service.

There is surely a valid place for an honours system in a society which upholds a spirit of public service and worthwhile achievement? The British system may be imperfect, but far the greater proportion of honours goes to people who do indeed deserve to be honoured and it's a shame the Guardian has chosen to withhold recognition from recipients by not printing the complete list and only reporting the honours awarded to celebrities.

Presumably you have been motivated by something of the attitude of Tanya Gold (Comment, 29 December). In condemning the system as "an absurd hangover from feudal times" she overlooks the fact that it is a rather modern construct: the bulk of it being made up of the Order of the British Empire only invented in 1917 (and admittedly requiring renaming). Evidence-based arguments for constructive reform is what we want, rather than negative oppositionism.
Edmund Gray
Oxford

• Three cheers for Tanya Gold. The honours system together with the monarchy, aristocracy, House of Lords and public schools are the main pillars of the aristocratic embrace which continues to stifle the emergence of a common culture in England, without which all talk of economic progress, social mobility and social solidarity is only spitting in the wind.
David Alfred
Brighton

• Tanya Gold's contempt for the Companion of Honour award ("a donkey sanctuary for Tory peers") is ill judged. Recent recipients include Peter Higgs, David Attenborough, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, David Hockney, Stephen Hawking and the late Harold Pinter. Lions rather than donkeys, surely?
John Weston
Richmond, Surrey

• Re Sir Hector Sants: so you can be knighted for being boss of the "light touch" financial regulator ahead of the biggest financial crisis in living memory? Am I missing something?
Jim Ensom
Manningtree, Essex

• Can someone tell me why Andy Murray with one gold medal gets a CBE while Mo Farah with two gold medals only gets a OBE? It couldn't be that tennis is a middle-class game, could it?
Roland White
Bognor Regis, West Sussex