Artist Peter Blake, Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Newcastle United boss Bobby Robson have been knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Retired BBC Radio 4 broadcaster Sue MacGregor and writer Sebastian Faulks are amongst those to receive the CBE. Fashion designer Caroline Charles and actor David Suchet are given an OBE.
Others featuring on the list are theatre director Trevor Nunn, playwright Harold Pinter and former newspaper editor Max Hastings.
Lesser-known people to be honoured include Molly Badham, director of Twycross Zoo, and headteacher Robert Dowling.
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