Honours for Hampshire's great and good

9:45am Saturday 29th December 2007

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THE great and the good of Hampshire have been recognised in today's New Year's Honours List.

They include charity fundraisers, community stalwarts, business leaders and academics who have all been rewarded for their work.

Among them was Leslie Oakley who was made an MBE for his tireless work in setting up and running his own national charity.

The 59-year-old hairdresser from Newtown Road, Southampton, formed the Myositis Support Group in 1985 and its membership has now swelled to more than 700.

William Dowdall from Southampton has been made an MBE for his services to the Thornhill New Deal for Communities health and wellbeing project.

Based at the Healthier Thornhill Centre in Hinkler Road the project organises and supports groups and activities to help residents improve their health and well-being."

It was also a proud day for Brian Wareham who has been awarded an OBE for his work with crime prevention charity Crimestoppers o.

More than three decades of volunteering have seen New Forest resident Alan Surtees made an MBE.

Mr Surtees, from Densome Wood in Woodgreen, near Fordingbridge, who has been a volunteer with the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme for more than thirty years, has been given the honour for services to young people.

Long-term Sea Scouts leader Roslyn White, also from Fordingbridge, has been made an MBE for her dedicated volunteering.

Another New Forest resident to be made an MBE is Peter Russell of Burley, who is receiving his award for services to Brunel University and to the community of Uxbridge, both in Middlesex.

Meanwhile Michael Reynolds from Stockbridge was also made an MBE for services to community sport through his work with Sportsmatch.

And in Southampton, Gillian Drummond, from Southampton, the president of the Association of Garden Trusts, was awarded with an OBE for services to the environment.

Michael Campbell from Alton has been made an MBE for his charitable services.

Retired school caretaker John Edwards, who spent 22-years looking after the grounds at Alverstoke Church of England Junior School, Gosport, has been made an MBE for services to education.

Former strategic Hampshire County Council planning officer, Shirley Turner, from Eastleigh, has been made an MBE for services to local government after 28 years service.

As has the council's director of recreation and heritage, Yinnon Ezra.

Hampshire college head Stella Mbubaegbu who is the principal and chief executive of Highbury College near Portsmouth has been made a CBE for her services to further education.

Titchfield-based scientist Dr Dolores Byrne, who works for QinetiQ in Farnborough, has been awarded an OBE for her services to the defence industry.

Professor Clair Du Boulay, from Alresford, has been awarded an OBE for her services to medicine.

And Randolph Otter from Southampton, a chief inspector with the British Transport Police, is made an MBE for services to the police.

Senior civil servant Bruce Mann, who lives in Hampshire and is head of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat at the Government's Cabinet Office, receives The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (CB).

Michael Waterland, of Ports-mouth Hospitals NHS Trust has been awarded an OBE for services to healthcare in the West Midlands and the South East.