For serv the Police.Winterton, Nicholas Raymond, MP, Member of Parliament for Macclesfield. For serv to Parliament.De Witt, Ronald Wayne, Chief exec, North West London Strategic Health Authority. For serv the NHS.Young, Anthony Ian, Lately Sen Dep Gen sec, Communication Workers’ Union; pres, TUC; Governor, BBC For serv Employment Relations.. CH
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Howard, Sir Michael Eliot, CBE, MC, Emeritus Prof of Modern History, Univ of Oxford For serv Military Studies.Pinter, Harold, CBE, Playwright For serv Literature.. Brian Cass, managing director of Huntingdon Life Sciences, the animal testing laboratory that became the target of violent animal rights activists, is appointed a Commander of the British Empire. Despite this, the Cambridgeshire-based firm has been forced to de-list from the UK stock market and seek funding from America to remain in business.Elsewhere in the business community, six leading figures from industry and finance receive knighthoods. The list includes Roy Gardner, chief executive of British Gas’s parent company, Centrica, Tom McKillop, chief executive of the drugs giant AstraZeneca, and Keith Whitson, chief executive of the HSBC bank.
Other knighthoods are awarded to Brian Stewart, chairman of the Scottish & Newcastle brewery, and Peter Rigby, a West Midlands industrialist.Two former members of the Bank of England’s interest rate-setting monetary policy committee, Ian Plenderleith and Sushil Wadhwani, are appointed CBEs. Phil White, chief executive of National Express, is created CBE.. Bobby Robson, who guided England to the World Cup semi-finals 12 years ago, celebrates a knighthood today as the national team face Denmark for a place in the last eight of the competition. He won the FA Cup as manager of Ipswich Town in 1978 and was appointed England boss in 1982. He resigned after the 1990 World Cup and then had a successful career at club level with PSV Eindhoven, Sporting Lisbon, Porto and Barcelona. He returned to his native North-east in 1999.The present England manager, Sven Goran Eriksson, who has known him for more than 20 years, said: “If there is one person who deserves this, then it’s Bobby Robson. I have always admired him.”Clive Woodward, coach of the England rugby union team, is appointed OBE.
Since he took over in 1997, England have won the Six Nations twice and have defeated South Africa and Australia within the past year.Jason Leonard, who has won 98 caps for England and is the most capped forward in rugby union history, has been created MBE. The curling gold medallists Debbie Knox, Fiona MacDonald, Rhona Martin, Margaret Morton and Janice Rankin have been created MBEs. Their last-gasp victory against Switzerland at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City was watched by a late-night television audience of almost six million.Also appointed MBEs are the former Celtic captain Tom Boyd, who appeared 72 times for Scotland and is their fifth most capped player of all time, and the British athletics star Paula Radcliffe, the world cross-country champion, who recently won the London Marathon in a record time.Hope Powell, coach of the England women’s football team, is created OBE, while the transatlantic rower Debra Veal is appointed MBE.. The knighthood awarded to Gulam Noon, a big Labour donor, was defended yesterday by Downing Street. But the Prime Minister’s official spokesman fiercely rejected suggestions that the honour was influenced by the entrepreneur’s financial backing.”He has expanded his small family business into one of London’s major companies and has made a significant contribution to the wider economy by promoting business and skills development,” the spokesman said. He pointed out that the honour had been approved by an honours scrutiny committee, comprising the Labour peer Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, the former Tory foreign secretary Lord Hurd of Westwell and the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Thomson of Monifieth. “[Sir Gulam] has been honoured for what he has achieved,” the spokesman said.