Forsyth knighthood heads honours

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Commonly awarded ranks:

Knight or Dame Grand Cross Knights Bachelor/Dame Commander CBE - Commander of the Order of the British Empire OBE - Officer of the Order of the British Empire MBE - Member of the Order of the British Empire Guide to the honours

Actor Bernard Cribbins has enjoyed a prolific career since the 1950s, in films including Carry On comedies and The Railway Children, and on TV in the likes of Fawlty Towers, Doctor Who, Jackanory and as narrator of The Wombles.

Appointed an OBE, the 82-year-old said he was "gobsmacked". "You can't go through life expecting to get prizes. You just get on with things, which is how it should be," he said.

There are MBE awards for authors Kate Atkinson, whose books include Behind The Scenes At The Museum and Case Histories, and The Gruffalo creator and children's laureate Julia Donaldson.

Textile designer Celia Birtwell, 70, becomes a CBE. The clothes she produced with Ossie Clark in the 1960s helped define the era and were worn by the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Twiggy among others.

Artist and film director Sam Taylor-Wood is made an OBE and the same honour goes to conceptual artist Gillian Wearing.

World champions

England cricketers' achievement in winning their first Ashes series in Australia for 24 years in January is recognised as skipper Strauss and coach Andy Flower are appointed OBEs.

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The MBE honour for 26-year-old Cook rewards his 766 runs, the most by an Englishman in the Ashes since 1928, which earned him the player of the series title.

Golfer Westwood, 38, becomes an OBE following a period of months in which he twice topped the world golf rankings, the first time ending Tiger Woods' 281-week reign as world number one.

There is a knighthood for 68-year-old Henry Cecil, arguably Britain's greatest ever racehorse trainer. In a career lasting more than 40 years, he has been crowned champion trainer 10 times.

Two athletics world champions become MBEs - heptathlete Jessica Ennis, 25, and triple jumper Phillips Idowu, 32.

Ennis said: "I love my sport and can't think of anything I would want to do more, and to be recognised for the years of hard work and the success I have had over the past two years means so much."

Cyclist Mark Cavendish is also appointed an MBE after a year in which he won five stages of the Tour de France.

The first Briton to play basketball in the NBA in the US, John Amaechi, becomes an OBE.

Ennis is a key British hope for the London Olympics next year

Amaechi, who is 40, became the first openly gay NBA player when he came out in 2007. In recent years he has undertaken considerable voluntary work and his award in the Queen's Birthday Honours recognises services to sport and the voluntary sector.

"Normally the kind of thing you say to this is you're standing on the shoulders of giants," Amaechi said. "I'm a giant who has literally been propped up by a wonderful family and the people that I work with.

"So it's like a giant standing on the shoulders of slightly smaller people."

Of the 965 people receiving an award in the honours list, 74% are members of the public recognised for outstanding community and voluntary work.

Among them is Beverley De-Gale, who set up a charity to attract bone marrow donors from ethnic minorities after her son developed leukaemia. She is appointed an OBE.

Ex-soldier David Stuttard, 65, set up an organisation that has improved water sanitation in parts of Ghana and given 50,000 people access to clean water. He becomes an MBE.

Also becoming an MBE is Patricia Gilman, who has worked as a lunchtime supervisor at Kenmore Park First School in Harrow, north London, for more than 30 years.

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