Year Honours

31. December 2010 | 02:50

NI New Year Honours list revealed

Fifty-four people from Northern Ireland have been named in the New Year Honours list. (News Source: BBC News - 01:07:26)

Suchet and Hancock appointed CBEs

Actors David Suchet and Sheila Hancock are among the stars of stage and screen recognised in the New Year Honours list. (News Source: BBC News - 01:28:35)

Word Cup referee in Honours list

A South Yorkshire policeman selected to referee the World Cup Final is appointed MBE in the New Year Honours list. (News Source: BBC News - 01:04:21)

Knighted - for services to high gas prices and Cadbury’s demise?

Roger Carr, the tycoon who saw through the sale of the 200-year-old British company Cadbury to the US multinational Kraft in February, has been knighted for services to industry in today’s New Year Honours list. (News Source: Independent - 00:18:33)

Lennox honoured for charity work

Annie Lennox has received an OBE in the New Year Honours List for her work fighting Aids and poverty in Africa. Related Stories Knightley film screened in N Korea Rocker Mellencamp splits from wife Sally takes revenge on cheat Kevin Producer Trevor Horn awarded CBE Suchet, Hancock receive NY honours (News Source: Belfast Telegraph - 00:49:02)

MBEs for Howard Webb and Graeme McDowell in New Year Honours List

World Cup final referee Howard Webb and Ryder Cup hero Graeme McDowell are recognised in the New Year Honours List today. (News Source: Daily Mail - 01:12:33)

Business Diary: Ogston’s gong is well deserved

Our congratulations to Hamish Ogston, the founder of CPP Group, one of the few businessfigures to be rewarded in the New Year Honours list today - he’s getting a CBE for services to business in Yorkshire. Ogston is living proof that you don’t need aconventional CV to make it in business - he joined the Norwegian merchant navy aged just 17 and, once he’d finished seeing the world, founded a … (News Source: Independent - 00:58:39)

McDowell and Webb cap 2010 with honours

US Open golf champion Graeme McDowell and World Cup final football referee Howard Webb were among the sports figures whose achievements were recognised Friday in Britain’s New Year’s Honours. (News Source: Bangkok Post - Thailand’s English news - 01:36:49)

Lennox honoured for charity work

Annie Lennox has received an OBE in the New Year Honours List for her work fighting Aids and poverty in Africa. The former Eurythmics singer said she was “genuinely honoured” at the recognition, and joked that she would be getting her hat ready for Buckingham Palace. (News Source: Spalding Today - 00:43:37)

Knighted, man who sold out Cadbury: Tycoon behind U.S. takeover also masterminded huge rise in gas bills

City veteran Roger Carr has been listed in the New Year’s Honours for services to industry, despite his involvement in the sale the British chocolate maker. (News Source: Daily Mail - 01:39:12)

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