Soap star Shobna Gulati and the BBC’s former creative director Alan Yentob are among those in the entertainment industry who have received honours. Songwriter Gerry DeVeaux, fashion designer Stuart ...

Mikayla Beames, 18, has been awarded a British Empire Medal after founding Team Mikayla following her cancer diagnosis aged four.

Nine-time Paralympic gold medallist Hannah Cockroft is made a CBE and Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson becomes an MBE.

The country music singer and BBC Radio Ulster presenter says he his proud his contribution to the entertainment industry has been recognised.

Awards under the Royal Victorian Order are in the King’s gift and are bestowed independently of Downing Street.

Wales rugby great Gerald Davies admitted he was left “dumbstruck” after being awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours. The 79-year-old former Wales and British and Irish Lions wing has been ...

Newly-made Member of the Order of the British Empire Keely Hodgkinson only began to truly embrace her own significant impact after winning Olympic gold in Paris, say her coaches.

Actor Stephen Fry, former England manager Gareth Southgate and London mayor Sadiq Khan have been knighted in the New Year Honours. Honours have gone to a host of Team GB athletes, including runner ...

Stephen Fry said he is “startled and enchanted” to be awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours and hopes it sets an example that there is “always hope”. The actor, screenwriter and author is being ...

An 18-year-old from Wantage who founded a charity at aged eight after her own cancer diagnosis has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM).

Mathematician Professor Alison Etheridge has been made a Dame and two other Oxford University professors have been recognised in the New ...