New Year Honours: Wiggins, Storey and Ainslie head list
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20858353

Well the promise was kept.:)

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all very well deserved

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Agreed :tu:

Also glad Kate Bush was rewarded with a CBE for her career in music.

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Indeed it was fully deserved to two of our greatest sporting heroes.:tu:

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Mmmmm....Ennis...:romance:

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Now now Russ one lady's enough in your life.:nono:;)

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Just one lady in my life would be very welcome right now </off topic>

I'm glad The Ennis got an honour as I think she's a fantastic role model for young girls today. I'm a little taken aback at Peter Higgs getting a mention. I think I'll try his method of describing something that may not exist. Such as the amount of effort I will put in to work today.

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Weird that David Weir doesn't get a Knighthood really. Andy Murray should have got a CBE (that's higher than OBE right?) for winning the US Open and a gold medal but otherwise good list! Shame Danny Boyle turned a Knighthood down and what about Stephen Fry? Has he turned it down the past?

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Why? He didn't just 'describe something that may not exist', he proposed it's existence in the first place to solve a mathematical inconsistency in physics and was extraordinarily proved right this year. It's incredible that he correctly hypothesised a particle decades ago before anyone had any hope of examining that far down.

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Nice to see one of the Bletchley park staff getting honoured

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...herts-20859561

Hopefully the first of many from there

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Arsenal Football Club is delighted to announce that Pat Rice has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List.

http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-arc...n-honours-list

:D

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Ellie Simmonds MBE is upgraded to a OBE :D (She was the youngest person to receive an MBE at 14/15 years old).

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When I passed my cycling proficiency test, I got a certificate.

These days, you get a knighthood.

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True. Although I would just say that being the first British winner of the Tour De France and winning a gold medal at the Olympic Games is slightly more advanced than passing a cycling proficiency test. ;)