2009 New Year Honours announced
The Radio 4 broadcasting icon and journalist, who lives at Rudgwick, was made an MBE for services to sport.
The former Lord Lieutenant of West Sussex Hugh Wyatt was created a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order for services to the Queen and other members of the Royal Family.
Others in the county who have been honoured are as follows:
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Hide AdRichard John Hugo Fleck, of Horsham. Chairman, Auditing Practices Board. For services to business and the legal profession - CBE
Stephen Kenneth Ellison, of East Grinstead. Formerly Clerk of the Parliamentary Archives, Houses of Parliament - OBE
Capt Michael Charles Gordon-Lennox, of Midhurst. Chairman, St Dunstan's. For voluntary service to visually impaired ex-servicemen and women - OBE
Kathleen Margaret Norah Allen, of Bognor Regis. For voluntary service to people with disabilities in West Sussex - MBE
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Hide AdPauline Allen. For services to the Independent Monitoring Board at HM Prison Ford and to the community in West Sussex - MBE
Lesley Jane Coffin, of Chichester. Head of Secretariat, Network Operations South East, Highways Agency, Department for Transport - MBE
Peggy Gledhill, of Horsham. For voluntary service to the community in Horsham - MBE
Dennis Edward Goodwin, of Worthing. For voluntary services to the World War One Veterans' Association - MBE
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Hide AdClaire Elizabeth Hicks. Chief executive, Impact Foundation. For services to international development - MBE
Robert Daniel Hutton, of West Wittering. For services to St John Ambulance in Surrey - MBE
Dr John William Mason, of Chichester. For services to the South Downs Planetarium and Science Centre, Chichester - MBE
Charles Nicholas Partridge, of Shoreham. For public service - MBE
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Hide AdKate Schroder, of Chichester. Chief executive, 4sight. For services to visually impaired people in West Sussex - MBE
Paul Stennett, of Horsham. Chief executive, United Kingdom Accreditation Service. For services to business - MBE
Anne Caroline Taylor, from Chichester. For services to young people and to the community in Chichester - MBE
The West Sussex Gazette sends its congratulations to all the recipients.
See the Gazette issue dated January 7, 2009 for interviews.