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It has been perhaps the most eventful year of the 21st century so far and we at Comment is free are sure Hollywood producers are already poring over the monumental news events of 2011 to find a decent Tinseltown narrative. But before they get there, we’d like you to suggest some movie themes from this year’s news and tell us who should star in: “2011 – The Ultimate New Year’s Blockbuster”.

Can you decide who’d play Obama as he watches Osama bin Laden’s demise from the White House; who’d do a decent Cameron during the EU leaders’ summit? Which extras would you cast as student protesters? Who’d be the rogue we love to hate and who’d have the comedic cameo? Now’s your chance to cast the year that was.

Article source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/dec/31/2011-the-movie

After a week of grief and frustration, the family of Indian student Anuj Bidve has hit out at the British authorities, accusing police and officials of dragging their feet and failing to help them in their hour of need.

The 23-year-old was shot in the head in the early hours of Boxing Day as he walked through Salford with a group of eight Indian friends, fellow students from Lancaster University. His family say the authorities need to do more to restore their faith in Britain and to prove to them that the UK is not a racist country.

The police have offered a £50,000 reward in an attempt to catch the killers. They have made a number of arrests and categorised the killing as a “hate crime“, but Bidve’s family in the Indian city of Pune are becoming increasingly angry about the handling of the case.

They have accused the police of failing to contact them to inform them of their son’s death – they only found out when his friends started to contact them through Facebook – and of neglecting the case because it was the festive season.

The delay in getting Bidve’s body home has infuriated family members, who say the British authorities are more concerned about Christmas and the new year festivities than in helping the family observe their traditions.

“It is unacceptable to us,” said Rakesh Sonawane, Bidve’s brother-in-law. “They say the investigation is still pending, the charge sheet has not been filed and a second post mortem is still pending. The holidays are taking their toll. If there were more people working, we would not have to wait so long.

It is a very sensitive issue for any Indian. If someone dies, we have to perform all the rites. We burn the body on the day of death and for the next 13 days we have to do several other things, otherwise the soul might not rest in peace.”

He said that he and Bidve’s father, Subhash, were ready to fly to Britain to bring the body home, but despite help from the Indian authorities there had been no progress in getting it released.

Sonawane said the family was reluctant to come up with charges of racism against Britain, but they could not understand why they were being kept in the dark. “It is extremely disappointing the way we have been treated. We still don’t know what course of action was taken by the British police when they were informed of the attack. We don’t know what hospital he was taken to, what treatment he received or whether he was taken there in time. We are told it took half an hour and that that is not normal for the UK. If there was a delay in taking him, why did that happen?”

He said the family was upset about the way they had been treated and that it had affected their view of Britain. “I really want that the UK authorities should help us in changing our perceptions,” he said.”We still have a lot of faith in the UK authorities and the police, but they have to help us more. They have to help us to believe again that Britain is not a racist place.”

He said the family had been concerned about whether Britain was a safe place for an Indian to go before sending Bidve to college. “All my friends who have been to the UK have had some sort of bad experience there,” he said. However, he said the young student was excited about the opportunity to study in Britain.

People have been calling all week at the house in a middle-class area of in Pune to offer their condolences. Relatives have tried to comfort the family, but Bidve’s mother, Yogini, is inconsolable.

Three teenagers – one 16-year-old and two 17-year-olds – arrested in connection with the killing were granted bail on Friday. Two other men, aged 19 and 20, remain in custody. The murder weapon has not been found.

Police have apologised to the family for the initial handling of the case, and in particular about the fact that they found out about the killing on Facebook. “That is not the way anyone should have to find out something so devastating and we completely understand how upset the family are,” said Dawn Copley, the Greater Manchester Police assistant chief constable.

She said the police had attempted to track down the family, but were beaten by the social networking site. “Unfortunately, as the officer was attempting to contact the family through the right channels, a post was put on Facebook. We have no control over when and what people post on such sites, but no one should hear such tragic news in this way.”

The student was shot in the head at point-blank range as he walked with friends near their hotel in the inner-city Ordsall district of Salford, in the early hours of 26 December.

Police say the gunman, a white man in his twenties who was wearing a grey top, walked across the road and spoke to Bidve before taking out a gun and shooting him in the side of the head. Police say the killing – which they described as “extremely unusual and savage” – may have been racially motivated.

Family members have been unable to get flights to Britain over the new year so British police plan to send officers to India to liaise with them.

Article source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/31/britain-racist-murdered-indian-student

The government is to review the risks posed to the thousands of women who have received faulty silicone breast implants fitted by a French company.

Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, announced on Saturday that there were fears that existing evidence about potential dangers was not reliable.

About 40,000 women in Britain are believed to have had implants made by Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), including hundreds who had reconstructive breast surgery through the NHS.

French authorities shut down PIP last year after the company was found to be using a non-medical, low-grade silicone filler for implants and have since recommended that women have PIP prosthetics removed because of fears they may rupture.

Until now, the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) had refused to follow suit. Officials said their data suggested the risk of rupture was only 1%, rather than the 3.6% estimated by the French. The agency also argued there was no evidence of cancer links to the implants and on that basis it said that their removal was not necessary.

But on Saturday Lansley said the NHS medical director, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, would now carry out a review of the situation. The MHRA would also audit its evidence to resolve concerns about the “content and quality of the data that cosmetic surgery providers are sharing with the regulator”.

Lansley said: “We are doing everything we can to ensure that women with these implants get the best possible advice. So far, all the evidence from around the world suggests that women should not be worried and that there have not been abnormal levels of problems reported with these implants. But if any woman is worried, then they should contact their surgeon or GP.”

Lansley said he had decided to set up the review after “conflicting data” was provided last week by a large private provider of the implants. This had left him “concerned and unhappy”, he added.

“The validity of this data still requires full assessment and evaluation, so I have asked Professor Sir Bruce Keogh to lead an urgent investigation so that we can establish exactly what has happened and whether we need to improve the regulatory regime.”

Article source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/31/breast-implants-scandal-lansley-review

The NHS must get frail, elderly patients out of hospital faster in order to free valuable bed spaces and beat the service’s financial squeeze, health experts have warned.

According to a new analysis of NHS bed use by the influential King’s Fund thinktank, hospitals need to do more to help older people who have had a stroke, pneumonia or broken hip to return home more quickly so that they are not wasting resources.

The report urges hospital bosses to cut the small but disproportionate number of old and very old patients who arrive as emergencies but end up staying for at least a fortnight, at a cost of £200 a night, often after they have recovered. The NHS in England cannot keep treating such patients for so long if it is to have any chance of meeting the government-imposed target of finding £20bn in efficiency savings by 2015, warns the King’s Fund.

Given that acute hospitals have to contribute £8bn of the £20bn, “reducing unnecessary use of hospitals offers a key opportunity for significant savings”, says the study. The NHS in England could save more than £1bn a year by ensuring that both elective and emergency patients leave hospital sooner, the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement estimates.

Bed use for planned procedures is under control, especially as medical advances mean that the average length of stay after surgery such as a hip replacement has fallen. While such patients form 55% of all hospital admissions, they occupy less than 30% of total bed days. “This means that reducing bed use by emergency admissions offers greater potential to deliver an overall reduction in the use of hospital beds,” adds the institute.

NHS figures show that the number of patients being admitted as emergencies, the amount of bed days they occupy and the total staying for at least two days have risen since 2007. That trend was unsustainable given that the NHS was facing its toughest financial challenge in living memory, said the King’s Fund chief executive, Professor Chris Ham.

Most emergency admissions are short; half of those patients stay for under 24 hours. The NHS’s main bed use problem involves the 10% of patients who stay for more than two weeks, as they account for more than half of all emergency bed days, the study says.

Four out of five longer-stay patients are 65 or over and more than 30% are over 85. “Typical diagnoses among older patients with very long length of stay include stroke, hip fracture, pneumonia and urinary disorders, dementia and delirium,” the report finds.

Some of those who stay in when they are fit to be discharged are at risk of contracting hospital-acquired infections or can find their extended stay frustrating or distressing, while some become depressed or lose their independence as a result.

Patients occupying as many as 42% to 55% of bed days would be better treated at home, with or without medical support, or in a nursing home rather than in hospital. “This change of setting, if appropriate, would also save money – acute hospital care costs about £200 per day and private nursing home fees are less than £100 per day,” the study says.

Ham added: “This analysis is a wake-up call for the NHS. A high proportion of hospitals’ budgets go on a small proportion of patients. It’s a waste of NHS resources. We need to use our resources more effectively by targeting this small group of older patients with complex needs.”

Hospitals needed to identify such patients earlier and give them better, more joined-up care from their specialists in both mental and physical health, such as physiotherapists and experts in memory loss, in order to speed their discharge. “At the moment many of these older patients don’t get a good deal from the NHS. Medical care of them needs to improve. It is too often fragmented and needs to be integrated,” said Ham.

Mike Farrar, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, who last week claimed one in four hospital patients could be treated elsewhere, said hospital bosses were worried that a lack of social care could also increase the number of frail elderly patients being admitted.

Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, backed the King’s Fund’s call for hospitals to do more to shorten older emergency patients’ length of stay. “Patients have a right to expect that they are looked after well and that the treatment they are given helps them to recover. No one should stay in hospital longer than necessary,” he said.

Article source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/dec/31/nhs-hospitals-treatment-elderly

Ted Hughes‘s fascination with jaguars inspired some of his verse, but it was little known until now that it also led him to create two sculptures.

One of the sculptures, pictured for the first time in today’s Observer, is seen by experts as a self-portrait of a complex man who struggled against his demons, using animals and the dark forces of nature as metaphors for human life.

Hughes made the sculpture in 1967 – four years after the death of his wife, American poet Sylvia Plath, who took her own life, aged 30, after being abandoned by Hughes for his lover Assia Wevill. The sculpture, which Hughes gave to his brother, is particularly striking because he branded the jaguar’s forehead with the letter ‘A’, possibly for Assia or “adulterer”, as recalled in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, in which a woman is sentenced to wearing the letter A around her neck.

Such was Hughes’s eye for detail and understanding of the animal’s anatomy that every muscle and bone is there. Although a mere seven inches long, it is a powerful depiction.

Jonathan Bate, a leading academic who is writing a Hughes biography for publication in 2013, told the Observer of his excitement at seeing the sculpture. He said: “The idea of the jaguar was very powerful to him, so it is wonderful that there is this sculpture. I think that the jaguar, to him, was – like the tiger to William Blake – Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright – a raw kind of creative force and animal passion.”

After graduating from Cambridge in 1954, Hughes had a variety of temporary jobs, including a period at London Zoo where he observed the jaguar’s behaviour. In one of his early poems, The Jaguar, he wrote: “His stride is wildernesses of freedom:/ The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel.” Bate said: “The jaguar obviously remained an obsession… because there’s a later poem called Second Look at a Jaguar, and a much later poem that’s never been published called Jaguar Skin.” Bate hopes to publish at least some of it: “It’s a very fine poem.”

Hughes was poet laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998 from cancer. His intimate collection of poems, Birthday Letters, in which he broke his silence about his marriage to Plath, was published only months before his death. Theirs was one of the great literary love stories, blighted by tragedy. Some of Plath’s fans blamed him for driving her to her death. Plath herself once wrote: “There is a panther stalks me down / One day I’ll have my death of him.” Assia Wevill also killed herself and her four-year-old daughter, Shura, in 1969, months after Hughes left her.

It was while living with Wevill that Hughes made the two jaguars, which he gave to his sister, Olwyn, and brother, Gerald. Olwyn’s is now in a sorry state, but Gerald’s has survived in perfect condition. Now aged 90, and living in Australia, he is selling it. Olwyn Hughes said that Gerald is parting with it because “he’s absolutely broke”. She added: “People used to say [Ted's] poetry was violent. But I think that he wrote so beautifully and powerfully about animals, that it was almost as though the animal was in the room.”

Asked whether she sees the sculpture as a self-portrait, she said: “The way it’s posed, in tense contemplation and pain, fits with that period after Sylvia died.”

Her own jaguar shows another side to Hughes – “running free… [with] none of the tension that there is in Gerald’s, but unfortunately it only has one leg”.

Rick Gekoski, a London dealer in rare books and manuscripts, has been asked to sell the sculpture. He said: “It seems to me powerful, dark, sexual, predatory, which are terms that have frequently been used to describe Ted Hughes. But it also seems to me to have quite a lot of inwardness and feeling. The head is low rather than high. It doesn’t look like an animal that’s attacking.”

Article source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/31/ted-hughes-jaguar-sculpture-sale

Thousands of shop workers stand to lose their jobs this year as some of the high street’s best-known names face financial ruin despite a rise in business over the holiday period.

Poor sales in the runup to Christmas have been the final nail in the coffin for struggling chains such as lingerie retailer La Senza, Millets-owner Blacks Leisure and the nostalgia gift retailer Past Times.

KPMG, which is working on an emergency rescue for La Senza, announced this weekend that more than 80 of its stores would close, which is likely to result in many hundreds of layoffs. La Senza’s website showed a list of branches destined for the chop, including those in major cities such as Bristol, Cambridge and Edinburgh.

A wave of store closures and job losses at Blacks and Past Times is expected to follow in the coming weeks. Between them, the three chains employ more than 7,000 people. Jonathan De Mello, head of retail consultancy CBRE, said 30,000 to 40,000 retail jobs could disappear over the next 18 months as a “retail recession” chews up the high street.

“It might not be an official recession, but we are in a retail recession,” he said. “Retailers are experiencing falling sales and profits.”

Last month De Mello predicted 20,000 retail job losses in 2012, based on a 1% rise in shop vacancy rates. But after weak festive sales that figure now looked conservative, he said, warning it “could be double that”.

A taste of the carnage to come was seen last week when more than 1,800 store staff were made redundant at Bradford-based shoe group Barratts Priceless and Scottish fashion chain D2. Another 400 jobs also hang in the balance at toy chain Hawkin’s Bazaar, which went into administration on Friday.

There will be an anxious wait to see how HMV fares over the crucial Christmas trading period, which is when it makes all its profits. Last month the troubled entertainment chain, which has debts of £160m, warned the tough trading conditions “cast significant doubt on the group’s ability to continue as a going concern in the future”.

Jamie Constable, chief executive of restructuring firm RCapital, said retail casualties this year could top those of 2008, when the collapse of Lehman Brothers helped to plunge the world economy into recession. A total of 349 retail companies in England and Wales went bust that year, including Woolworths, with the loss of more than 20,000 jobs.

Constable said: “High-street retailers are facing rent rises and wage inflation which is coupled with a drop in sales…for many retailers, the numbers simply don’t add up.” He added that the extra burden of VAT bills in the first quarter of 2012 could be the “final straw” that tipped some firms into failure.

Analyst Maureen Hinton, of the research firm Verdict, said: “Many of the retailers that have got into difficulties have high debt levels and trading is not producing enough cash to service it. When debt was cheap and the retail environment was buoyant, weaker operators were shielded, but with little or no growth in many retail sectors, any progress is achieved only at a rival’s expense.”

Verdict predicts that retail sales will only grow by about 1% this year. In the past 40 years, spending will have only have been weaker in 2009 and 2011. Britons began tightening their belts in 2007, and by the end of 2012 spending on clothing and household goods will have declined by nearly £10bn — almost the equivalent of the annual non-food sales of John Lewis, Next and Marks Spencer put together.

The traditional high-street store model has been undermined by the growth of the internet and huge out-of-town supermarkets selling everything from groceries to sofas, clothing, shoes and CDs.

Huge sales volumes enable the supermarkets to offer the low prices that specialists such as Mothercare, La Senza, HMV and Game struggle to match. “When you are reliant on just one product, there is no alternative if that product is not selling well,” said Hinton.

Property analysts say the challenges faced by high street operators will only intensify this year as planning permissions have been granted for new supermarket space with the equivalent footprint of another Tesco. These market forces have already changed the complexion of many UK high streets where traditional retailers such has newsagents, butchers and fashion stores are giving way to cafes, pubs, restaurants and takeaways.

Robin Knight, partner at restructuring firm Zolfo Cooper, predicted tomorrow’s high streets would follow a “Tesco and Chanel” model as the supermarkets increasingly dominated clothing, books and home furnishing sales, and only “power” brands that excite consumers like Apple and Superdry cut it on the high street: “Everything else in the middle is effectively fighting for survival,” he said.

Article source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/dec/31/high-street-la-senza-closes

Three youths have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a teenager on London’s Oxford Street during the Boxing Day sales.

Scotland Yard said a 20-year-old and two 16-year-olds were being held at separate London police stations in connection with the fatal stabbing of Seydou Diarrassouba

Diarrassouba, 18, was stabbed in the heart after a fight broke out at a Foot Locker sports shoe store.

Eleven people had already been arrested in the investigation. All are currently on bail until dates in January.

The new arrests came after 17 suspected gang members were held in a bid to dampen “rising tensions” and prevent reprisal attacks following the killing.

Investigators said a number of gangs were present at the time and were aware of people wanting to “seek retaliation or revenge” for what had happened.

In order to pre-empt any further violence, officers yesterday conducted a series of raids across the capital, arresting 17 people for a range of offences including grievous bodily harm, robbery, affray, intent to supply drugs, burglary, forgery and handling stolen goods. A large amount of cash was also seized.

The motive of the attack on Diarrassouba is yet to be established. In a statement released through police, his family said: “Our loving son and brother has been snatched away from us.

“A simple shopping trip has turned into a complete nightmare for our whole family.

“We are urging anyone who was in Oxford Street at the time of the incident to come forward with any evidence, no matter how little relevance they think it could have, to help the police with their ongoing investigation.”

Article source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/31/three-arrested-oxford-street-stabbing

The government is to urgently review the risk posed to thousands of women from faulty breast implants, the health secretary has announced.

The review will re-examine conflicting data about the potential dangers posed by implants made by Poly Implant Protheses (PIP), the French firm accused of using cheaper industrial silicone rather than approved medical material, said Andrew Lansley.

Lansley said new data provided on Friday conflicted with previous information supplied to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

The health watchdog had previously indicated the risk of the implants rupturing was 1%, rather than the 3.6% estimated by France.

Lansley said the NHS medical director, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, would now carry out a review of the situation. The MHRA will also conduct an audit of its evidence to resolve concerns about the “content and quality of the data that cosmetic surgery providers are sharing with the regulator”.

“We are doing everything we can to ensure that women with these implants get the best possible advice,” Lansley said.

“So far, all the evidence from around the world suggests that women should not be worried and that there have not been abnormal levels of problems reported with these implants. But if any woman is worried, then they should contact their surgeon or GP.

“We have, however, received data from an organisation yesterday that was not previously acknowledged or communicated to the MHRA.

“The validity of this data still requires full assessment and evaluation, so I have asked Professor Sir Bruce Keogh to lead an urgent investigation so that we can establish exactly what has happened and whether we need to improve the regulatory regime.

“I want to reassure women that if any new data comes to light which calls into question the safety of these implants, we will act swiftly to help them. Our top priority is making sure that women get the correct advice so that they are kept safe.”

The MHRA said there was no evidence the implants were linked to cancer, and on that basis it has said removal is not necessary.

PIP was forced to stop trading in October after being investigated by the French health authority for allegedly producing substandard implants. Earlier this week it was revealed that the US Food and Drug Administration warned PIP 11 years ago that its saline breast implants were “adulterated” and did not meet medical quality requirements.

The health authorities in France have advised the 30,000 French women fitted with PIP silicone implants to have them removed but insisted this was “precautionary” rather than “urgent”.

About 2,500 women fitted with the implants have registered complaints with the court in Marseilles. Nine French women with PIP implants were found to have a rare form of cancer and there are allegations the implants are prone to rupture.

In Britain, where about 40,000 women are believed to have PIP implants, medical officials say there is no evidence they are a health risk, but have advised the women to see their doctor for checks.

Article source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/31/breast-implant-risks-to-be-reviewed

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Ian Crampton, For serv national and lcl charities.

Lee Craven, For serv the commty in Salford, Greater Manchester.

William Edward Crispin, Volunteer, West Alvington Primary School, Kingsbridge, Devon, and School Crossing Patrol Officer. For serv Education.

Andrew Raymond Crook, Senior Anatomy Technician, R Veterinary College. For serv Veterinary Science.

Mrs Julia Crookall, Volunteer, Samaritans, Crewe. For voluntary service to Mental Healthcare in Cheshire.

Clive Cumming, Foster Carer. For serv Children and Families.

Mrs Sharon Mary Cumming, Foster Carer. For serv Children and Families.

Garry Stephen Cunningham, Grade C2, Ministry of Defence.

Dr William Francis Cunningham, General Practitioner, Corbridge Health Centre, Northumberland. For serv Primary Care.

Ms Ann Cuthbert, Formerly Personal assistant, Health and Social Care Directorate, Scottish Executive.

Roger James Dainty, Chief Technician, Biochemistry Department, University of Nottingham. For serv Scientific Research and Training.

Mrs Hilary Dandy, For serv Cumbria Constabulary.

Dr Glenis Carole Basiro Davey, The Open University Science Faculty, and Health Education and Training Programme, Africa. For serv Higher and Health Education.

George Davies, Chair of Governors, Egglescliffe School, Cleveland. For serv Education.

John Geraint Parcell Davies, JP, For serv the commty in Swansea.

James Davis, Good Childhood Adviser, The Children’s Society. For serv Children and Young People.

John Davis, Volunteer and campaigner for diabetic pump use, Hampshire. For serv People Suffering from Diabetes.

Trevor Diesch, Formerly Policy Adviser, Department for Communities and Local Government.

Mrs Pamela Anne Dixon, Councillor. For serv the commty in Altrincham, Greater Manchester.

Mrs Colleen Doherty, Higher Officer, Small and Medium Enterprises Team, London, HM Revenue and Customs.

Mrs Carol Anne Donnelly, Guided Tour Operator. For serv the Tourist Industry in Carlisle and the Borders.

Professor Grace Dorey, Physiotherapist. For serv Healthcare.

Brian Dorman, For voluntary service to Children Overseas.

Miss Mary Doyle, Foster Carer and Adoptive Parent, Isle of Wight. For serv Children and Families.

Jeffrey Edward Anthony Dudgeon, For serv the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender commty in Northern Ireland.

Michael John Dyer, For serv Young People in Essex.

Dr Patricia Ann Ealey, For serv The Holly Lodge Centre and to People with Special Needs in Richmond and Ealing, London.

Mrs Elizabeth Edmunds, Immigration Officer, Gatwick Airport, UK Border Agency, Home Office.

Daren Morgan Edwards, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Plastic Surgery, Barts and the London NHS Trust. For serv Nursing.

Miss Jennifer Anne Edwards, For serv People with Disabilities in Surrey.

Stephen Edwards, Prison Officer, HM Prison Stafford, Ministry of Justice.

Frank Messiah Ellis, For serv the commty in the London Borough of Haringey.

David George Emery, For voluntary service to the R Naval Association in Uttoxeter.

Paul Eskriett, Formerly Principal Security and Contingency Planning Adviser, City of London Corporation. For serv Local Government.

Miss Alison Evans, For serv Visually Impaired Young People in Sussex.

Ms Ruth Elizabeth Evans, Chief exec, Brewing, Food and Beverage Industry Suppliers Association. For serv Exports.

Trevor George Evans, For serv Conservation and to Wildlife in Monmouthshire.

Mrs Vivienne Evans, For serv the commty in Dunstable, Bedfordshire.

Maj Martin James Everett, TD, For serv The R Welsh Regimental Museum.

Christopher Farnaby, Head of Operations (Aerodromes), CAA. For serv Aviation Safety.

Ms Jean Fawcett, Director, Academic Development and Review, London Metropolitan University. For serv Higher and Further Education.

Ms Marika Fawcett, Executive Officer, Private Office, Department for Work and Pensions.

Mrs Magdalen Margaret Christian Fergusson, Secretary of the R Society of Literature. For serv Literature.

Michael Andrew Fieldhouse, For serv the commty in Grange-Over-Sands, Cumbria.

Mrs Janet Finch, Formerly Foster Carer, Coventry, West Midlands. For serv Children and Families.

Mrs Jeannette Fish, Founder, Doncaster Cancer Detection Trust and St. John’s Hospice, Doncaster. For serv terminally ill patients.

Alfred Robin Fisher, Past Master, Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass. For serv Architectural Stained Glass.

Mrs Denise Fitzpatrick, For serv Disabled Children in Plymouth.

David John Fletcher, Tank Warfare Historian. For serv Military Heritage.

Donald Fletcher, For serv the voluntary sector in Lancashire.

Mrs Janet Margaret Flint, For serv the commty in Appleton Roebuck.

Ms Paramjit (Pam) Flora, Grade E1, Ministry of Defence.

Terrance Michael Flynn, For serv the commty in Cardiff and Crime Prevention in Wales.

Mrs Brenda Mary Forty, For serv Elderly People in Chesham, Buckinghamshire.

Mrs Betty Clara Jessie Foxwell, Founder Member, Dulwich Kidney Patients’ Association. For serv People with Kidney Disease.

Ms Vanessa Frake, Head of Security and Operations, HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs, Ministry of Justice.

David George Brian Francis, For serv Disabled People in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

Mrs Margaret Anne Fraser, For polit service.

Mrs Joanne Lonsdale-Frith, Partnership mgr for Tesco. For serv Disadvantaged People in Greater Manchester.

Ms Karen Gallagher, Artistic dir, Merseyside Dance Initiative. For serv Dance.

Mrs Jacqueline Ann Gant, For serv the commty in Bishop Thornton and Warsill, North Yorkshire.

Miss Christine Ann Gaskell, Chair, North West Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network. For serv Training and Apprenticeships.

Robert Hughes Gaskin, For serv the voluntary sector in Cornwall.

Surjit Singh Ghuman, Founder of Panjab Radio. For serv Broadcasting.

Hubert George Gibbs, Volunteer, Sussex Police. For serv the Police and the commty.

Cyril Gittins, Estate Yard Foreman to the National Trust at Attingham Park, Shropshire. For serv Heritage.

Mrs Margaret Goodacre, For serv Caring for Elderly People in Malvern, Worcestershire.

Dr Peter John Gordon, Formerly General Practitioner and Police Medical Adviser, Northamptonshire. For serv Emergency Care.

Dr Andrew Gotts, Photographer. For serv Photography and Charity.

Dr Charles Herbert Gerard Gould, Chairman, Board of Governors, Carrickfergus Grammar School. For serv Education in Northern Ireland.

Alan Goulding, Chair of Governors, St. Francis Special School, Lincoln. For serv Education.

Brian Grant, Base mgr, Babcock Marine. For serv the Defence Industry.

Anthony John Gray, For serv the voluntary sector in Northumberland.

Mrs Mary Elizabeth Gray, Formerly dir, Kerith Counselling Service Ltd. For serv Counselling in the West of Scotland.

David Robert Green, For charitable serv, particularly to Boxing in Cambridgeshire.

Mrs Diana Green, Environment Adviser, Sustainability and Diversity, London, HM Revenue and Customs.

George Malcolm Green, For serv the commty in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.

Mrs Carol Greenstock, For serv Economic Development in Wales.

Mrs Coral Marianne Greenwood, Formerly Duke of Edinburgh Award Leader and Drama Teacher, Birkenhead High School Academy, Prenton, Merseyside. For serv Education.

Miss Pam Griffin (Mrs Pamela Margaret Warry), Formerly Higher Executive Officer, Inland Waterways Team, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Mrs Elizabeth Griffiths, Volunteer, St. Mary’s Opportunity Group for Children with Special Needs. For serv Education.

Peter Benjamin Griffiths, For serv Heritage.

Mrs Sheila Gurnett, Girlguide Leader and Community Worker, Buckinghamshire. For serv Children and Young People.

Mrs Margaret Hackney, For serv Healthcare and Families in Hertfordshire.

Dr Avice Margaret Hall, Principal Lecturer, University of Hertfordshire. For serv Higher Education and to the commty in St. Albans.

Mrs Jacqueline Hall, For serv the commty in Merseyside.

Ms Wendy Hall, For serv the voluntary sector in Wiltshire.

Mrs Daphne Vernede Hamblin, For serv Children with Disabilities through the Wormwood Scrubs Pony Centre, West London.

Ms Sally Hancox, For serv Reducing Carbon Emissions and Fuel Poverty in Social Housing.

Ms Anna Lise Hansen, Chef/Proprietor, Modern Pantry. For serv the Restaurant Industry.

Mrs Dorothy Hardy, National Park Voluntary Ranger. For serv Conservation.

David Harewood, Actor. For serv Drama.

David John Harris, Divisional managing dir, Cowlin Construction. For serv Education and Training in the Construction Industry.

Michael Leonard Arthur Harrison, Formerly ch Superintendent, Staffordshire Police. For serv the Police.

James Harvey, For publ service.

Thomas Daniel Harvey, Chief exec of Northern Film and Media. For serv the Creative Industries.

Stephen Peter Hatcher, Deputy head, St. Aidan’s Church of England High School, Harrogate, Yorkshire. For serv Education.

Robert James Haughey, For serv the Fishing Industry in Northern Ireland.

Ms Andrea Haynes, Executive Officer, Jobcentre Plus, Department for Work and Pensions.

David Lambon Heard, For serv the commty in Birmingham.

Christopher Michael Heaton, Head of Planning, Policy and Culture, Libraries Learning and Culture, Cambridgeshire County Council. For serv Libraries.

Mrs Moira Laird Mctaggart Heeps, For serv the commty in Brightons, Stirlingshire.

Mrs Marion Olwin Hemmerdinger, Co-ordinator, Burton MIND. For voluntary service to Mental Healthcare in Staffordshire.

Mrs Irene Henderson, Grade 3 Casework Specialist, Human Resources, Scottish Parliament.

Colin Henry, Chair of Governors, Christ’s College, Guildford, Surrey. For serv Education.

Mrs Deborah Jane Hepplewhite, Independent Phonics consultant (Adviser to the Reading Reform Foundation Committee). For serv Education.

Dr Caroline Mary Heaven Herbert, Chief exec of Red Balloon Learner Centre Group. For serv Education.

James Hewitt, For serv Financial Inclusion in Oxfordshire and to the lcl commty.

John David Hibberd, Deputy Headteacher, Thomas Mills High School, Framlingham, Suffolk. For serv Education.

Peter Hickson, Chairman, Petty Pool Trust, Cheshire. For serv Young People.

George William Higgs, Chair, Scottish Borders Equality Forum. For serv Community Relations.

Professor Leonard Wareing Hill, For serv Fencing.

Mrs Lynne Hill, For serv Independent Monitoring Board, HM Prison and Young Offenders Institution Doncaster.

Nicholas John Hillsdon, State Registered Prosthetist, Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton. For serv Prosthetics and to the commty.

Mrs Sheila Hinds, Formerly Executive Officer, Pension, Disability And Carers Service, Department for Work and Pensions.

Trevor Joseph Hing, For serv the commty in Fairford, Gloucestershire.

Vidar Paul Hjardeng, For serv Visually Impaired People and to Broadcasting.

Mrs Doreen Mary Hobbs, For serv the commty in Watlington, Oxfordshire.

Mrs Beryl Lynn Hodgson, Chief Officer, Special Constabulary, Hampshire Constabulary. For serv the Police and the commty.

Dr Kathleen Rose Hodgson, Director of Learning and Teaching Support, University of Leeds. For serv Higher Education.

Mrs Bernadette Holgate, Higher Executive Officer, Debt Management, Department for Work and Pensions.

Peter Hollins, For voluntary service to the R Naval Museum.

Ms Patricia Holmes, Police Community Support Officer, Metropolitan Police Service. For serv commty policing.

Phillip Harry Holmes, JP, For serv the commty in the West Midlands.

Simon David Henry Holt, Chairman, South West Wales Breast Cancer Network. For serv Healthcare in Carmarthenshire and South West Wales.

Derek Holvey, Conductor, Four Counties Youth Orchestra. For serv Music in South East Wales.

David Richard Honeywill, For serv the Fire and Rescue Service and the lcl commty.

Wing Cdr Martin Richard Hooker, Grade C2, Ministry of Defence.

Miss Emma Mary Constance Hope, Shoe Designer. For serv the Fashion Industry.

Ms Jane Hopkins, Founder, MumsClub. For serv Entrepreneurship.

Alan Peter Horsfield, Stone Mason. For serv St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.

Lawrence Houghton, Senior Officer, Compliance and Technical Liaison, Bootle, HM Revenue and Customs.

Richard Howe, Formerly Executive dir, Estates and Facilities, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. For serv the NHS.

Mrs Jacqueline Howell, Executive Officer, Jobcentre Plus, Department for Work and Pensions.

John Huddleston, Formerly Knowledge Leader and Project dir, AEA Technology. For serv the Environment.

Mrs Lynne Hughes, For serv the commty in North Wales.

Rodney Hughes, Businessman. For serv Business in Newark, Nottinghamshire.

Professor Stephen Lambert-Humble, Head of Dentistry, University of Kent, South East. For serv Dental Care and Education.

Mrs Hilary Humphreys, For serv Education and Sport in North Wales.

Colin Hunt, Activity Mentor, Wirral Positive Futures. For serv Vulnerable Young People and the lcl commty.

Mrs Jennifer Lesley Hursell, For serv the commty in Southwold, Suffolk.

Walford John Hutchings, Musical dir, Pontnewydd Male Voice Choir. For serv Music and to the Community in Torfaen.

Mrs Hifsa Haroon Iqbal, DL, For serv Community Cohesion in Staffordshire.

Anthony Hyman Isaacs, Past president, Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal. For serv the Legal Profession.

Dr Gabriel Obukohwo Ivbijaro, General Practitioner and Clinical dir, Walthamstow, London. For serv the NHS.

Mrs Denise Jackson, For serv Scottish Gymnastics.

Christian Jacobs, Senior Mechanic, Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions. For serv Scientific Research in the Antarctic.

Meredydd Davies James, Formerly Headteacher, Rhymney Comprehensive School, Caerphilly. For serv Education.

Norman Jarvis, JP, For serv Road Safety.

Miss Helen Jenny, For serv Dartmoor National Park and to Young People in Devon and Cornwall.

Ian David Johns, Coxswain, Newhaven Lifeboat, R National Lifeboat Institution. For serv Maritime Safety.

Mrs Joanne Elizabeth Johnson, Bereavement Counsellor. For serv Bereavement Counselling and Training in Lancashire.

Professor Rhona Susan Johnston, Professor of Psychology. For serv Education.

John Jones, Master Framer. For serv the Arts.

John Jones, For charitable service.

Mrs Marilyn Gordon-Jones, Chair, Sutton Old People’s Welfare Committee, London. For voluntary service to Older People.

Miss Norma Jones, Higher Executive Officer, School Standards Group, Department for Education.

Roy Lindsey Jones, Community Liaison mgr, ScottishPower. For serv Young People in Wales.

Mrs Cecilia Mary Jordan, Volunteer, Special Olympics. For serv Disability Sport.

Dr Hasmukh Joshi, Formerly General Practitioner. For serv Medical Education and to the R College of General Practitioners.

Mrs Mini Joti, Health Visitor, Bridgeton Health Centre. For serv the NHS and the commty in the East End of Glasgow.

Dr Raman Kapur, Chief exec, Threshold. For serv People with Mental Illness in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Morella Kayman, Vice president, Alzheimer’s Society. For serv Healthcare.

Professor James Keaton, For serv Heritage in the North West.

Ms Robyn Keeble, For serv Community Activism and Youth Empowerment.

Peter William Kellett, Special Inspector, Lancashire Constabulary. For serv the Police.

Paul Kelly, Volunteer Coastguard Rescue Officer. For serv Maritime Safety.

Mrs Anne Patricia Kemp, For voluntary service to Children with Hearing Disabilities.

Mrs Mary Kendall, For serv the commty in Ingleton, Lancashire.

Mrs Helen Marion Kennedy, Chair, Rocktalk. For serv Blind and Visually Impaired People in Stirling.

Ms Lulu Kennedy, Founder, Fashion East. For serv the Fashion Industry.

Mrs Eileen May Kenny, Head of Quality, South West College. For serv Further Education in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Lily Kerr, Head of Bargaining and Representation for UNISON. For serv Industrial Relations in Northern Ireland.

Councillor Jeremy Alan Kite, For serv Local Government in Dartford.

George Gordon Archibald Knowles, Welfare Officer, Disabled Police Officers’ Association. For serv the commty in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Margaret Laidlaw, For voluntary service to UNICEF.

John Lambert, For serv People with Disabilities in Weymouth and Portland, Dorset.

Keith Clarke Lambourne, Director of Export, ACO Group. For serv Construction Exports.

Mrs Geraldine Susan Lane, Author, Parent’s Guide to Plymouth. For serv Families.

Miss Hilary Frances Jane Lane, Formerly Cultural Strategy mgr, East Sussex County Council. For serv the Arts in East Sussex.

Miss Irene Grace Langton, For voluntary service to Animal Welfare and to the lcl commty.

Brian Stewart Larkman, Adviser, Debt Management Office. For serv the Financial Services Industry and the Debt Management Office.

Mrs Jayne Law, UK and Ireland Sales mgr, DOW Building Solutions. For serv the Insulation Industry.

Mrs Barbara Lawrence, For voluntary service to the commty in Rhayader.

Maurice Victor Laws, Catering consultant. For serv the UK Hospitality Sector.

Mrs Helen Theresa Ledger, Administrative Officer, Personal Tax Operations, Manchester, HM Revenue and Customs.

Ping Nam Lee, For serv the Chinese Community in Cambridge.

Mrs Elizabeth Anne Leigh, For serv the Brit Red Cross and to the commty in Newbury, Berkshire.

Miss Anne Leonard, For serv Unemployed Young People through Operation New World.

Jeffrey Norman Levick, For serv Disability Cricket in Hampshire.

Mrs Alison Lewis, Grade C2, Ministry of Defence.

David Lewis, JP, For serv the commty in South East London.

Mrs Margaret Elizabeth Lewis, BEM, For serv the commty in St. Albans, Hertfordshire.

Ms Ursula Frances Rosamond Lidbetter, DL, Chief exec, Lincolnshire Co-operative Limited. For serv Business in Lincolnshire.

Ms Julie Lightfoot, Managing dir, Solar Solve Marine. For serv International Trade.

Mrs Rosanna Lightfoot, For serv the commty in Glenridding and Patterdale, Cumbria.

Mrs Joan Little, Executive Officer, Complaints and Appeals Directorate, Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission, Department for Work and Pensions.

Mrs Renee Alice Logan, Volunteer, North West Ulster Group, Institute of Advanced Motorists. For serv Road Safety in Northern Ireland.

John Rae Lonsdale, For voluntary service in North Yorkshire.

Mrs Alison Lowe, Senior Officer, Customer Operations, Manchester, HM Revenue and Customs.

Mrs Pamela Elizabeth Lycett, For serv Hockey in Staffordshire.

James Edward Lyons, Helicopter Safety Expert. For serv Aviation Safety.

Mrs Edith Joan Christabel MacAuley, JP, For serv the commty in the London Borough of Merton.

Donald John MacKay, For serv the Harris Tweed Industry.

Gustav MacLeod, Chair of Governors, Thomas Bewick Special School, Newcastle Upon Tyne. For serv Education.

Graham Livingstone MacQueen, For charitable serv in Oban and Lorn, Argyll.

Mrs Flora Magee, For serv the commty in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Ann Maggs, For serv the commty in Grimsby and Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire.

Mrs Rosemary Magill, For serv Women’s Aid Antrim, Ballymena, Carrickfergus, Larne and Newtownabbey in Northern Ireland.

Al’adin Maherali, For serv the Voluntary Sector and to Business.

Mrs Therese Mahindrakar, JP, For serv the commty in Bolton, Greater Manchester.

Mrs Anne Marie Marley, Respiratory Nurse consultant, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. For serv Healthcare in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Yvonne Marr, For voluntary service to the R Brit Legion Scotland.

Andrew Martin, Formerly Superintendent, Bedfordshire Police. For serv the Police.

Councillor Peter James Martin, DL, Leader, Essex County Council. For serv Local Government.

Ms Stephanie Martin, Formerly Family Court Adviser, Cafcass Leeds, and Foster Carer. For serv Children and Families.

Mrs Dorothy Martland, Founder of Diversity in Barrier-Breaking Communications. For serv Young People.

Mrs Mary Maunder, Coach, St. Joseph’s Swimming Club. For voluntary service to the commty in Cardiff.

John Francis May, For serv the commty in Lichfield, Staffordshire.

Harold James Mayes, Deputy Principal, Northern Ireland Prison Service, Northern Ireland Executive.

Henry Irwin Mayne, Social Worker, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. For serv Visually Impaired People in Northern Ireland.

Ms Angela McBain, Past president, Brit Association of Dental Nurses. For serv Dental Nursing.

William McCallum, For serv Sport in Argyll and Bute.

Mrs Ann McCrea, Breastfeeding Co-ordinator. For serv Healthcare in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Patricia McDermott, For serv People with Disabilities in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Glenys McDonald, Senior Judges’ Clerks’ mgr, R Courts of Justice, Ministry of Justice.

Mrs Sally-Rose Alice McFerran, For serv SSAFA Forces Help.

Duncan McGarry, National Family Liaison Adviser, National Policing Improvement Agency. For serv the Police.

Mrs Winifred McGeorge, For serv Social Housing in Burnley, Lancashire.

Ian McGibbon, Formerly Serious Youth Violence Adviser, Home Office. For serv Tackling Gang-Related Violence.

Patrick McGonagle, Managing dir of Pakflatt Ltd. For serv Economic Development in Northern Ireland.

Rory McIlroy, Golfer. For serv Sport.

Ms Avril McIntyre, Chief exec Officer, Lifeline Community Projects. For serv the commty in Barking and Dagenham.

Mrs Sarah McKiernan, Finance dir’s Office mgr, Jobcentre Plus, Department for Work and Pensions.

William James McKittrick, For serv the commty in Craigavon, Northern Ireland.

Mrs Susan McTaggart, Policy and Reform mgr, Police Staff, Merseyside Police. For serv the Police.

Dudley Sharratt Mead, For serv Civic Society in Croydon.

Mrs Valerie Mellor, For serv swimming in the North West.

John Metcalf, Composer. For serv Music.

Mrs Barbara Micklethwaite, For serv the commty in Oldham, Greater Manchester.

Anthony Miller, Director, Whitechapel Mission. For serv Homeless People.

Ian Eric Miller, For serv Ultralow Temperature Physics at Lancaster University.

Mrs Christine Angela Mills, Founder, Hope for Tomorrow Charity. For charitable serv Healthcare in Gloucestershire.

Ms Margaret Mills, Project Worker, Children 1st. For serv Children and Young People in Scotland.

Peter Alastair Mills, For serv the Conservation of Ecclesiastical Buildings and to the commty in Dorking, Surrey.

Mrs Frieda Patricia Minns, For serv the commty in Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire.

Mrs Olive Muriel Anderson Minors, For serv the commty in Chester.

Brian Mister, Formerly Trustee, Essex Coalition of Disabled People. For voluntary service to People with Disabilities.

Terence Monaghan, For serv the commty in Stock, Essex.

Mrs Jean Margaret Moore, For serv the voluntary sector in Cheshire.

Mrs Monica Anne Moreton, For serv Adults with Learning Difficulties through the Oak Tree Farm Rural Project in Staffordshire.

Mrs Alice Ellen Morgan, For serv the Girlguides in Pembrokeshire.

Mrs Rosemary Ann Somers Morrison, For serv Disabled Sailing.

Leslie Mosley, For serv Disabled People in Birmingham.

Mrs Lesley Moss, HR Services mgr for Salford R NHS Foundation Trust. For serv the commty in Salford.

Leslie Norman Moss, Fundraiser, Cancer Research UK. For charitable serv.

Sqn Ldr Herbert Nevil Mottershead, DFC, For voluntary service to the 158 Squadron Association.

Mohammed Saeed Moughal, For serv the commty in Birmingham.

Mrs Valerie Moyes, Teacher, St. Ambrose High School, North Lanarkshire. For serv Education and Music.

Ms Maura Muldoon, For publ service.

Mrs Jane Findlay Murray, For serv Tayside Fire and Rescue and Local Government in Scotland.

John Black Murray, For serv Arts and Culture and to the commty in Dumfriesshire.

Michael James Muskett, For serv Social Enterprise Aid and to the commty in Norfolk.

Peter Rice Muxworthy, For serv the commty in Swansea.

Alexander Nairn, Executive Officer, Pension, Disability and Carers Service, Department for Work and Pensions.

Miss Pauline Nandoo, Co-ordinator, Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers.

Dr Adam Naylor, DL, Formerly Chair, Lakeland Arts Trust. For serv the Arts in Cumbria.

Mrs Hilary Needham, Founder and mgr, Special Needs and Parents charity (SNAP). For serv Children and Young People with Special Needs and their Families.

Ms Anesta Eileen Newson, For serv Adults with Intellectual Disabilities in Sudbury, Suffolk.

Dr Lui Nam Ng, For serv the Chinese Community in London.

William Eric Nicholls, For voluntary service to the Sainsbury’s Veterans’ Association.

Derek Edward Thomas Nicholson, Formerly Chair of Governors, Cramlington Learning Village; Governor, The King’s School, Tynemouth and Registrar Emeritus, Newcastle University.

Stephen John Nicholson, For serv St. John Ambulance in Bedfordshire.

Mrs Valerie Nixon, For serv the R National Lifeboat Institution.

Geoffrey Michael Norris, For voluntary service to the R National Lifeboat Institution in Arran, North Ayrshire.

Winston Stephen Nurse, For serv the commty in Leicester.

Mrs Eilish O’Doherty, Manager, Age Concern Derry. For serv Older People in Northern Ireland.

Sean Francis O’Donovan, Formerly assistant head Teacher, Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School, Coventry. For serv Education.

Michael James O’Reilly, Foster Carer, Staffordshire. For serv Children and Families.

Mrs Phyllis O’Reilly, Foster Carer, Staffordshire. For serv Children and Families.

Cornelius Francis O’Sullivan, Founder and Coach, Birmingham City Amateur Boxing Club. For serv Amateur Boxing.

Geoffrey Malcolm Oakes, Formerly Clerk to the Board of Governors, Reaseheath College. For serv Further Education.

David Orrell, Senior Executive Officer, Pension, Disability and Carers Service, Department for Work and Pensions.

Mrs Jeannette Orrey, School Meals Policy Adviser, Food For Life Partnership. For serv Food in Schools.

Eric Llewellyn Osmond, For serv the commty in Wareham.

Mrs Barbara Joyce Owen, Chair, The Three Rivers Museum of Local History. For serv the Heritage of Rickmansworth and the Three Rivers District.

Dr Richard Nicholas York Owen, Director, Aspire Trust Ltd. For serv Arts Based Business.

Robert James Owen, Caretaker, Llanfawr Primary School. For serv the commty in Holyhead, Anglesey.

Malcolm John Ozin, For serv the Jewish Community in London.

Mrs Susan Diane Pamphlett, Inward Visits mgr, Overseas Office, Department of Chamber and Committee Services, House of Commons.

Mrs Robina Parkes, For serv the commty in Northern Ireland.

Rudolph Parkes, For serv National and International Fundraising and Voluntary Work.

Maj Sylvia Ann Parkin, TD, DL, Regional Campaign dir, SaBRE, Ministry of Defence.

Malcolm Ross Parkinson, Chair, Capel Manor College, Enfield, Middlesex. For serv Further Education.

Alexander Glynn Francis Parry, Community Liaison Officer, Serious Organised Crime Agency. For serv Law Enforcement.

Christopher John Parry, Grade C2, Ministry of Defence.

Mrs Doreen Cynthia Parsonage, For serv the commty in Wormley, Hertfordshire.

Anwer Ibrahim Issa Ismail Patel, Managing dir, Cohens Chemist Group. For serv commty pharmacy.

Mrs Madhurika Patel, For serv the Indian commty in Greater Manchester.

Christopher Douglas Paterson, For serv Scottish Rugby.

Ms Rowena Dorothy Patrick, For voluntary service to the Burma Star Association.

James Darryl Peacock, England Rugby League Captain and Leeds Rhinos Prop Forward. For serv Rugby League.

Mrs Patricia Laura Peake, Founder, Healing Hearts Bereavement Group. For charitable serv.

Miss Ingrid Pears, Founder, Ingrid Pears hot glass. For serv the Export Business.

Mrs Doris May Peat, Mid-Day assistant, Coopers’ Company and Coborn School, London Borough of Havering. For serv Education.

James Peel, JP, Formerly assistant Senior Education Officer, South Eastern Education and Library Board. For serv Young People in Northern Ireland.

Roger Frederick Penfold, For serv the Amateur Swimming Association South East Region and to Local Government in Berkshire.

Mrs Rosemary Pennington, For serv the commty in Cambridge.

Ms Corinna Penrose, Formerly commissioner, Mental Welfare Commission. For serv Mental Health in Scotland.

Vernon Courtney Petherick, Chair of Governors, Crookhorn Technology College, Waterlooville, Hampshire. For serv Education.

Dr Margaret Joy Philippou, For voluntary service to Young People.

Ms Caroline Phillips, Head of Corporate Services, Uganda, Department for International Development.

Ms Linda May Phillips, Founder and dir, Roots and Shoots Charity, Lambeth, London. For serv Young People.

The Reverend Prebendary Sam Philpott, For serv the commty in Plymouth, Devon.

David Pickering, For serv Cleveland Constabulary.

Mrs Ann Picton, Formerly Headteacher, Clytha Primary School, Newport. For serv Education.

Michael Alan Pigott, Technical and Development mgr-Ballistic Protection, Ministry of Defence.

Mrs Jane Elizabeth Plumb, Chief exec, Group B Strep Support. For serv Child Healthcare.

Miss Karen Pollock, Chief exec, Holocaust Educational Trust. For serv Education.

Mrs Denise Poore, Leader, Marsh Farm Sure Start Children’s Centre, Luton, Bedfordshire. For serv Children and Families.

Roger John Pope, Formerly head of Student Services, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and Music Examiner, Trinity College London. For serv Higher Education.

Mrs Marion Price, For voluntary service to Surrey Learning Disability Partnership Board.

Mrs Dorothy Pritchard, For serv People with Intellectual Disabilities in Warrington, Cheshire.

John Railton, For serv Music.

Professor Derek Jeffrey Raine, Director, Physics Innovations Centre for Excellence in Teaching, University of Leicester. For serv Science Education.

Hanif Mohammad Raja, For serv Inter-Faith Relations in Scotland.

Bajloor Rashid, Restaurateur and president, Bangladesh Caterers Association. For serv Bangladeshi Catering.

Charles Frederick Melville Rawlinson, For charitable serv Young People and to Music.

Alderman John Mervyn Rea, Antrim Borough Council. For serv Local Government and the commty.

Mrs Elizabeth Anne Read, For serv Heritage in North Yorkshire.

Jason Moore-Read, Business mgr, Border Force Central Region, Home Office.

Michael Peter Read, President of the Channel Swimming Association. For serv Swimming.

Christopher John Reed, For serv the Scouts and to the commty in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.

Mrs Beatrice June Rees, For charitable serv in Pembrokeshire.

Martin Lewis Rees, Formerly Higher Officer, Customer Operations, Cardiff, HM Revenue and Customs.

Mrs Irene Grace Reid, School Crossing Patrol Officer, Longridge Primary School. For serv Road Safety.

Mrs (Agnes Mary) Una Reilly, Chairman, Belfast Titanic Society. For serv Maritime and Industrial Heritage in Northern Ireland.

John Howard Rigby, Sergeant, Lancashire Constabulary. For serv the Police.

Miss Deborah Laraine Roberts, Leader, 8th Llandudno (Gogarth) Rangers. For serv Young People in Conwy, North Wales.

Mrs Eirwen Griffiths Roberts, For serv the commty in Ynysddu, Newport.

Professor Richard Roberts, SME Market Analysis dir, Barclays Business. For serv UK Small and Medium-Sized Businesses.

Ian Robertson, Formerly ch exec, National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship. For serv Enterprise.

Mrs Antonina Robinson, Executive Officer, Jobcentre Plus, Department for Work and Pensions.

David Robinson, Founder, Northern Ireland Transplant Association. For serv Healthcare in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Mary Robinson, For voluntary service to the Brit Red Cross Society in Hexham, Northumberland.

Neil Robinson, National Coach, Paralympics GB Table Tennis Team. For serv Disabled Sport.

Robert Moore Robinson, Principal, Rainey Endowed School, Magherafelt. For serv Education in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Karen Mary Robson, Executive Officer, Jobcentre Plus, Department for Work and Pensions.

William Francis Rochford, Counsellor, Cruse Bereavement Care Scotland. For voluntary service to Vulnerable People.

David Michael Rodigan, Radio Presenter. For serv Broadcasting.

Mrs Josephine Mary Rogers, For serv the commty in Macclesfield, Cheshire.

Mrs Patricia Ann Ross, For serv Carers through Crossroads Care in Harrogate, Craven and York, North Yorkshire.

Mrs Susan Ross, Grade C1, Ministry of Defence.

Philip James Rowe, For voluntary service to the Brit Red Cross Society in Somerset.

Mrs Denise Rowland, Formerly head, School of Early Years, Health and Social Care, New College Durham. For serv Further Education.

Mrs Rhona Roy, For serv Capability Scotland.

Mrs Ann Salih, For serv the commty in Norton-le-Moors, Staffordshire.

Mrs Michelle Salter, For voluntary service to the SSAFA Forces Help in Norfolk.

Mrs Eva Minni Schloss, For serv Education through the Anne Frank Trust.

Mrs Elizabeth Ann Schofield, For serv the commty in Langham, Essex.

Graham Schuhmacher, Head of Development Services, Rolls-Royce plc. For serv Apprenticeships and Skills Training.

Mrs Rosemary Jane Buchan Segrove, Founderand Chair, Beaconsfield Talking Newspaper, Buckinghamshire. For serv People with Visual Impairment.

Mrs Hazel Norah Margaret Sewell, Counsellor, Cedar House, Lancashire. For voluntary service to Mental Healthcare.

Mrs Janette Sharples, Higher Officer, Charities, Assets and Residence International, Manchester, HM Revenue and Customs.

The Reverend Andrew James Shaw, For serv the commty in Fleetwood.

Mrs Constance Gwendoline Shepherd, For serv the commty in Thurcroft, South Yorkshire.

Mrs Maureen Helen Milne Shepherd, Formerly Chair, Board of Management, Inverness College, University of the Highlands and Islands. For serv Education.

Richard Michael Sherry, For serv the Publishing Industry and to the commty in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Susan Ann Sheward, Founder and Chair, Orang-utan Appeal UK. For serv the Endangered Primates of Asia.

Alexander David Richard Simpson, For serv the commty in Polmont, Stirlingshire.

Ms Joanne Simpson, Head, Humanitarian Team, Pakistan, Department for International Development.

Ms Debora Singer, Policy and Research mgr, Asylum Aid. For serv Women.

Ms Harbans Kaur Singh, For serv the commty in Hounslow.

Dennis Slaughter, For serv Motocross.

Mrs Barbara Benson-Smith, For serv Dance and to Charity in Whitby, North Yorkshire.

David Smith, Director, Customer Support, South Eastern Regional College. For serv Further Education in Northern Ireland.

Douglas Smith, Advance Skills Teacher, Swanshurst School, Billesley, Birmingham. For serv Education.

Mrs Gillian Smith, For voluntary service to Oxfam.

Dr Ian Geoffrey Smith, Founder and Global Medical dir, Synexus, Lancashire. For serv Health Research.

John Smith, Manager, Seven Day Centre. For serv Vulnerable Children and Young People in Lanarkshire.

Mrs Marilyn Joy Smith, Conductor and Musical dir, Glasgow Phoenix Choir. For serv Music.

Councillor Marion Smith, North Down Council. For serv Local Government in Northern Ireland.

Michael Smith, JP, For serv the commty in Netherfield, Nottingham.

Mrs Monique Avril Bateman-Smith, Director, R Navy and R Marines Childrens’ Fund. For serv Naval Families.

Ms Sarah Jayne Smithurst, Police Officer, Nottinghamshire Police. For serv the Police, Crimestoppers, and the Brit High Commission in Ghana.

Bakhshish Singh Sodhi, For serv Race Relations in Gravesend.

Leo Solomon, For serv Music in Grimsby.

Sister Helen Mary Spragg, For serv International Health.

Ms Madeleine Starr, Head of Innovation, Carers UK. For serv Employment.

Geoffrey Eric Michael Stevens, For serv the commty in Matlock, Derbyshire.

Ms Sarah Diana Stevenson, Taekwondo World Champion. For serv Martial Arts.

Timothy Philip Stimpson, Facilities mgr. For serv Oxfordshire County Council.

Mrs Dawn Stoddard, Learndirect Outstanding Learner of the Year 2010. For serv Further Education.

Mrs Carol Stone, Personal assistant, Metropolitan Police Service. For serv the Police.

Royston Kenneth Stone, For serv the commty in Kingswood, Gloucestershire.

Lady Anne Stoneham Of Droxford, Trustee of UK Youth and Member of the Avon Tyrrell Trust. For serv Young People.

Ms Carole Mary Stott, Chair of Governors, City Literary Institute. For serv Adult Education.

Mrs Margaret Straughan, Formerly Genetics Team Member, Department of Health.

Mrs Anne Stuart, Chair, Cassiltoun Housing Association. For serv Housing and Regeneration in Castlemilk, Glasgow.

Inderpal Singh Sumal, For publ service.

Mrs Ethel Swann, Co-founder, Play in Schools, Nottingham. For serv Children and Families.

Mrs Pamela Swanwick, Positive Play consultant, Derbyshire County Council. For serv Education.

Peter Alfred Sweet, For serv the commty in Shrewton, Wiltshire.

Paul Taylor, Front Line Service mgr, Corporate IT, Department for Work and Pensions.

Stewart Taylor, For serv Nature Conservation in the North of Scotland.

Mrs Lila Thakerar, Pharmacist. For serv the commty in the London Borough of Harrow.

Philip John Thickett, Formerly Area Operations mgr East, Northern Rail. For serv the Rail Industry.

Dr Timothy James Thirst, For serv the Stalham Brass Band, Youth Music, and to the commty in Stalham, Norfolk.

John Malcolm Thomas, Formerly dir, National Farmers’ Union Cymru. For serv Agriculture in Wales.

Julian John Wilding Thomas, Formerly National Library of Wales Conservation Treatment Unit mgr. For serv Conservation Science and Bookbinding.

Mrs Margaret Thomas, For charitable serv in Holyhead, North Wales.

Ernest Victor Thompson, For serv Literature and to the commty in Cornwall.

Mrs Helen Thomson, For serv the Brownies in Scotland.

Mrs Hilary Thomson, For voluntary service to Fairtrade.

Peter Thorp, For serv the Fire and Rescue Service and to the commty.

Councillor Robert Tidy, Farmer. For serv Local Government and to the commty.

Mrs Margaret Proudfoot Timpson, For serv Older People in Knutsford, Cheshire.

Trevor Tindle, For serv the commty in Great Houghton, South Yorkshire.

Mrs Susan Marian Tither, Constable, Metropolitan Police Service. For serv the Police.

Brian Leslie Toney, For serv the commty in Gweek and Culdrose, Cornwall.

Nigel Patrick Truscott, For voluntary service to St. John Ambulance in Jersey.

Mrs Heather Christine Turner, For polit and voluntary service.

Mrs Kathleen Mary Tyson, BEM, Guide Leader, 36th Nottingham Guide Group. For serv Young People.

Mohamed Foiz Uddin, For serv Community Cohesion.

Ezekiel Ukairo, For serv promoting Racial Harmony and Integration in Longsight, Greater Manchester.

Graham Douglas Underdown, Charity Fundraiser. For serv Charitable Fundraising.

Christopher Bernard Upham, BEM, Volunteer, National Association of Retired Police Officers, Cheshire Constabulary. For serv the Police.

Allen Robert Urch, For serv swimming in Nottinghamshire.

Ms Sue Urwin, Probation Officer, Hertfordshire Probation Trust. For serv Offenders in Hertfordshire.

Umesh Valjee, Cricketer. For serv Deaf Cricket.

Dr Pieter Thomas Van Der Merwe, General Editor, National Maritime Museum. For serv Heritage and the lcl commty of Greenwich.

Miss Keti Vatcha, Administrative assistant, Distribution Team, Benefits and Credits, Preston, HM Revenue and Customs.

Geoffrey Arthur Vernon, For serv Market Drayton Festival Centre, Shropshire.

Miss Margaret Rose Vinten, For voluntary service to Derian House, Chorley, Lancashire.

Mrs Eileen Mary Viviani, Grade C1, Ministry of Defence.

Ms Sarah Dummer-Wade, Founder and ch exec, Rerun, Dorset Runaways’ Service. For serv Young People.

Ms Faith Wainwright, Director, Arup. For serv the Built Environment and Engineering Professions.

Dr Brian Walker, Formerly dir, University of Winchester Centre of Religions for Reconcilation and Peace. For serv Higher Education.

Professor Marion Fraser Walker, Professor of Stroke Rehabilitation, University of Nottingham. For serv Stroke Rehabilitation and Stroke Survivors.

Mrs Morcea Antoinette Walker, For serv the commty in Northamptonshire.

Professor Robert Lloyd Walker, FRS, A., Member, Social Security Advisory Committee. For serv Social Policy Research.

Mrs Barbara Walton, For serv the commty in Greater Manchester.

Peter Tyndall Walwyn, For serv Horseracing.

Clive Warcup, For serv the Road Haulage Industry and Charitable Work.

Mrs Glynis Elizabeth Ward, For voluntary service to the commty in Cannock Chase.

Robert Ward, Volunteer Driver, North West Ambulance Service. For serv the commty in Merseyside and Cheshire.

Vincent Wedlock-Ward, Projects Officer, Southern Housing Group. For serv Disadvantaged Households and the Environment.

Mrs Sandra Irene Warzynska, For serv Business and to the commty in the East Midlands.

Mrs Gillian Moyra Waters, Formerly Organiser, Edith Cavell Day Centre, Norfolk. For serv Older People.

Mrs Maureen Watkin, For voluntary service to St. John Ambulance in the West Midlands.

David Anthony Watson, Founder, Heart Research UK. For serv Research and Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Mrs Eileen Watson, Formerly Teacher, Ashfield Girls High School, Belfast. For serv Education in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Mary Rose Watt, For serv Highland Dance Teaching in Ross-shire.

John Damian Waugh, Chair of Governors, Our Lady Queen of Peace School, Tyne and Wear. For serv Education.

Malcolm John Webb, For serv the commty in Brewood, Staffordshire.

Mrs Marion Aileen Webb, For serv the commty in Dorset.

William Edward Webber, For voluntary service to the R Brit Legion in South Molton.

Mrs Mary Webster, For serv Music and Education in Kirkby Overblow and Harrogate, North Yorkshire.

Mrs Josephine Ann Weir, Chair, Covent Garden Community Association. For serv the commty in London.

Jefferson Welsby, Physical Education Senior Officer, HM Prison Kennet, Ministry of Justice.

Thomas Joseph Welsh, For serv the Sport of Athletics in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Eileen Patricia Wheatley, Formerly Senior Social Worker, Cambridgeshire County Council. For serv Children and Young People.

Kevin James Whelan, Messenger, HM Treasury.

Michael David Whine, For serv Community Cohesion.

Mrs Edwina Mary White, For serv Counselling in South East Wales.

Keith Anthony White, For serv Sport.

Mrs Pamela Josephine Whitehead, For serv Avon and Somerset Constabulary.

Alexander Whitfield, Counsellor, Third Sector Solutions. For serv Jobseekers in Bristol.

Ms Elizabeth William, Formerly dir, IT Wales, Swansea University. For serv Women in Science, Engineering and Technology.

John Williams, For serv the commty in Foulden, Berwickshire.

Martyn Elwyn Williams, For serv Rugby.

Thomas Michael Williams, Formerly Chair Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. For serv Healthcare in Wales.

Ms Yvette Williams, Equality and Diversity Policy Adviser, Crown Prosecution Service.

John Victor Williamson, Owner, Valley Hotel Fivemiletown. For serv Tourism in Northern Ireland.

John Russell Charles Wills, Assistant dir, MRC National Institute for Medical Research. For serv Science.

Alderman Kevin John Wilson, Member, Milton Keynes Council. For serv Local Government.

Mrs Margaret Ellen Winser, Chair of Board of Governors, Truro and Penwith College. For serv Further and Higher Education.

Mrs Eileen Jayne-Wood, Fundraiser, The Rowans Hospice and Founder and Group Travel Organiser, Portsdown Travel, Portsmouth. For charitable serv.

Ms Jess Wood, For serv Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender and Young People in Brighton and Hove.

Mrs Wendy Rosalind Wood, Policy Lead, Coastguard Rescue Service Project, Department for Transport.

Frederick Ralph Woodhams, Laboratory Technician, City of London School. For serv Young People.

Mrs Katharine Woodhouse, For serv the commty in Mortlake, London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames.

Frederick Edward Wooding, For serv Athletics in the East of England.

Alan Woodiwiss, Founder, Sutton High Football Club. For serv Amateur Football.

Mrs Shirley Woodman, For serv the commty in Yorkshire.

Mrs Lyndie Wright, Founder, Little Angel Theatre. For serv the Craft of Puppetry.

Paul Gerard Peter Yates, Formerly Examiner, Official Receiver, Insolvency Service Leeds, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Akram Zaman, JP, President, Protocol. For serv the commty in Northamptonshire.

Article source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/31/new-tear-honours-list-mbe

Knights Bachelor

Professor Brian Mellor Greenwood, CBE, Professor, Clinical Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. For serv malaria research in Africa.

The Honourable (Frederik) Gordon (Roy) Ward, OBE, Formerly ch Justice, Turks and Caicos Islands. For serv the judiciary in the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Commonwealth.

ORDER OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE

KCMG

The Honourable Dominic Anthony Gerard Asquith, CMG, Formerly HM Ambassador, Egypt.

Dr Michael Leigh, Formerly dir general, Enlargement, European Commission, Brussels. For serv the enlargement of the European Union.

David Alexander Warren, CMG, HM Ambassador, Japan.

CMG

Colin Robert Armstrong, OBE, Executive president, AGRIPAC and Honorary Consul, Guayaquil, Ecuador. For serv UK Business and the Brit commty in Ecuador.

Graham John Lloyd Avery, Formerly dir, European Commission, Brussels. For serv European affairs.

James Nicholas Geoffrey Bowden, OBE, Formerly HM Ambassador, Kingdom of Bahrain.

Robert John Dean, Director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Timothy Mark Hitchens, LVO, Director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Jan Marceli Kopernicki, Formerly president, Brit Chamber of Shipping. For serv the safety and security of the international shipping commty.

Mrs Judith Anne MacGregor, LVO, HM Ambassador, Mexico.

Ms Shan Elizabeth Morgan, HM Ambassador, Argentina.

Dr Robert George Stevens, Director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Dr Christian Philip Hollier Turner, Director, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Order of the Brit Empire

KBE

Jonathan Paul Ive, CBE, Senior vice president, Industrial Design, Apple Inc., USA. For serv design and enterprise.

John Patrick Richardson, Art Historian and Author. For serv Art.

CBE

John Phillip Crawley, Formerly chm, Charter for Business, Toronto, Canada. For serv The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme.

Dr Frances Diana Dow, Formerly Chair, Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission. For serv UK/USA relations and the Marshall Scholarships.

Laurence Stephen Geller, Chairman, UK Churchill Centre, Chicago. For serv the Churchill Centre and to charitable and humanitarian work internationally.

Marc Andrew Newson, Designer. For serv design in the UK and worldwide.

OBE

Mrs Isobel Frances Abulhoul, For serv Education and Brit Literature in the United Arab Emirates.

Paul Edward Adamson, Editor-in-ch and Publisher, E!Sharp, Brussels. For serv promoting the European Union.

Roger Freeland Biggs, Chief exec Officer, International Resources for the Improvement of Sight (IRIS). For serv Health in Asia.

Andrew Richard Dingley Brown, Executive vice president, Shell. For serv UK/Qatar business relations.

Brian Adam Hugh Callaghan, Chairman, Callaghan Group, Gibraltar. For serv Chess and Tourism in Gibraltar.

John Newling Cloake, First secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

John Richard Cockwell, Formerly Member, Legislative Assembly, Falkland Islands. For serv promoting the interests of the Falkland Islands.

Professor Julian Marc Cooper, Professor, Russian Economic Studies, University of Birmingham. For serv Soviet and Russian economic studies.

Robert John Dale, First secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Patrick James Davies, Head of Near East and North Africa Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Dr David Ellis, Formerly First secretary, Tokyo, Japan.

Dr David Harry France, Founder, Everton Former Players’ Foundation. For serv Football in the UK and Europe.

Mrs Sarita Violeta Francis, Deputy Governor, Montserrat.

Ms Fionna Mary Macgregor Gibb, Deputy head of Mission, Sana’a, Republ of Yemen.

Mrs Leigh Gibson, Director, Brit Council.

Andrew Richard Glass, Formerly dir, Brit Council, Serbia and Montenegro.

Dr Eva Naomi Ailene Hodgson, Teacher. For serv commty interests in Bermuda.

Dr Michael Thomas Jackson, Formerly International Rice Research Institute, The Philippines. For serv international food science.

Anthony Paul Kay, Consular Regional dir for the Middle East, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Miss Elizabeth Jean Laughton, Second secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Matthew Lewis, First secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Graham Alexander Stuart McCulloch, MBE, Head, Teaching Operations, Brit Council.

Dr Andrew John Minchener, Consultant. For serv international science and clean energy collaboration with China.

Christopher Paul O’Connor, HM Ambassador, Tunis, Tunisia.

Professor Derek Clive Offord, Formerly Professor, Russian Studies, University of Bristol. For serv Russian studies in Language and Culture.

Jeremy Giovanni Sargent, Partner, JS Associates, Guangzhou, China. For serv UK business and legal serv in China.

Michael Stuart Shearer, Deputy High commissioner, Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Dr John Edward Sheehy, Formerly International Rice Research Institute, The Philippines. For serv agricultural research and development.

Ms Louise Jane Stanton, High commissioner, Malta.

Miss Emma Lesley Wade, Formerly head of Crisis Group, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Charles Moore Wilson, Trustee, Hertford Brit Hospital Corporation. For serv the Brit commty in Paris.

Ms Lilian Hermione Youngs, Senior Adviser, Programmes, Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, Afghanistan. For serv development in Afghanistan.

MBE

John Hamish Barclay, Second secretary, Kuwait.

Paul Baron, Charity Worker. For serv vulnerable children overseas.

James Christian Bend, Vice-Consul, Osaka, Japan.

Simon Harry Ryland Bewlay, Chairman, Board of Governors, Brit School of Manila. For serv education in The Philippines.

The Venerable Dale Arthur Bowers, Archdeacon of St. Helena. For serv the commty in St. Helena.

Mrs Melanie Ruth Bradley, Chief exec, Afghan Appeal Fund. For serv charity in Afghanistan.

Alan Eugene Burland, Engineer. For serv the commty in Bermuda.

Thomas Barbour Butterfield, Founder and dir, Masterworks Museum. For serv the commty in Bermuda.

Lawrence Sing Wah Chui, Consular Officer, Hong Kong, China.

Col Henry Ernest Vialou Clark, Charity chm. For serv education in Kenya.

Miss Rebecca Claire Cousins, Formerly Second secretary, Tokyo, Japan.

Barry John Daniels, Driver, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Services.

Joseph James Day, President and ch exec, Market Entry Services, Seoul. For serv the Brit commty and sport in the Republ of Korea.

Mrs Kathleen Frances Dufall, Vice-Consul, Brit Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand.

Stephen Keith Eatly, For serv international telecommunications.

Michael James Marcus Edwards, Pilot, Brit Airways. For serv UK/India relations and to the Brit aircraft ind.

Ms Katherine Joan Haber, Charity dir and Co-Chair of the BAFTA Education and Outreach Committee, Los Angeles. For serv the commty in Los Angeles, USA.

Mrs Isobel Marie Ellul-Hammond, Formerly Charity Worker. For serv the commty in Gibraltar.

Edward Inglett, Formerly Third secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Simon Jonathan Jeffers, Second secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Mrs Oeslyn Elma Selina Jemmotte, Formerly dir of Education. For serv education and to the commty in Montserrat.

Ms Carole Ann Johnson, MVO, Deputy High commissioner, Valletta, Malta.

George Frederick Bruton Campbell-Johnston, Chairman, Zimbabwe Farmers Trust Fund. For serv farmers in Zimbabwe.

Rhys Emyr Jones, First secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Miss Alison Latham, Audit mgr, Washington, USA.

Thomas Lord, Third secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Mrs Prudence Jennifer Lundie, Welfare Officer. For serv the Brit commty in Cyprus.

Mrs Maria Christina Miyazaki, Vice-Consul, Tokyo, Japan.

Stephen James Palmer, Second secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Richard Nicholas Anthony Rose, Second secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Frazer Stuart Ross, Second secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Richard Williams, Managing dir, Poldark Mine. For serv UK/Mexico relations.

Article source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/31/new-year-honours-diplomatic