CBEs for Galliano and Dudley Moore

# Dudley Moore

# Queen's birthday honours list

Honours for headteachers and health workers outnumber awards for fading film stars and ageing sports stars in a Queen's birthday honours list that mainly eschews the flashy.

Honours for headteachers and health workers outnumber awards for fading film stars and ageing sports stars in a Queen's birthday honours list that mainly eschews the flashy.

Exceptions include a knighthood for the architect Terry Farrell and CBEs for fashion designer John Galliano and the ailing actor Dudley Moore.

In sport, Alan Shearer, the former England football captain, gets an OBE, along with the veteran BBC football commentator John Motson.

There is also an MBE for Ellen MacArthur whose solo round-the-world voyage in the Vendée Global Challenge captured the public imagination.

The top award goes to the LSO conductor Sir Colin Davis, who is made a Companion of Honour, and there are knighthoods for the Vodafone boss Chris Gent, former formula one world champion Jackie Stewart and the flautist James Galway. But a fifth of all the honours are in education and health and social services, and half the recipients came from public nominations.

The head of a Darlington special needs school, Dela Smith, and the head of a Birmingham girls' technology college, Wendy Davies, are made dames, while Kevin Satchwell, head of the "exceptionally successful" Thomas Telford school in Shropshire, is knighted.

There is a damehood for Karlene Davis, the modernising general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, and a CBE for Professor Peter Fleming, who has done pioneering work into cot deaths.

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