Carer and teacher named in King's Birthday Honours

A gymnastics coach, a retired professor and a carer are among 16 people from Northamptonshire to be named in the King's Birthday Honours list.

They were recognised for their contribution to a range of activities including education, care and public service.

Coach Janine Musson was awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to gymnastics, and described the honour as "very surreal".

Prof Eunice Lumsden was appointed an OBE for services to children's rights and welfare, and Northamptonshire Carers chief executive Mark Major was appointed an MBE for services to carers.

"The biggest honour for me has really been to do this job and to support carers for a good many years," Major said.

"I've been a carer myself in the past, and my wife and I are carers again now for our daughter, so it means an awful lot to me that it was for services to carers."

Lumsden said her award would not have been possible without the people she worked with, calling it a "spotlight for all the thousands of people that have worked in this sector".

"All I'd ever hoped for was that I would undertake work that would make a difference," she said.

Other Northamptonshire recipients included headteacher Richard Bernard, awarded an MBE for services to education, and farmer Milly Fyfe, also appointed an MBE, for services to farming and family nutrition.

Almost 1,200 people from across the UK received an honour in the latest list.

Most UK honours are awarded twice a year, either at new year or on the monarch's official birthday in June.

The following is a full list of recipients in Northamptonshire.

Prof Sheila Macdonald Bird OBE (Kettering) for services to statistics

Mark Jonathan Byers (Kettering), chief operating officer of His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services, for public service

Craig Andrew Wyn Crowley MBE (Corby), chief executive officer of Action Deafness and inaugural co-chair of The British Sign Language Advisory Board, for services to deaf and deafblind people

Dr Lisa Marie Cherry (Northampton) for services to children, young people and their families across education and social care

Dr Hilda Hayo (Kettering), chief admiral nurse and chief executive of Dementia UK, for services to people affected by dementia

Emeritus Prof Eunice Carol Rita Lumsden (Northampton), University of Northampton professor, for services to children's rights and welfare

Richard David Bernard (Northampton), head teacher of Northampton School for Boys, for services to education

Milly Louise Fyfe (Northampton), founder of No Fuss Meals for Busy Parents, for services to farmers and to family nutrition

Mark Vincent Major (Kettering), chief executive of Northamptonshire Carers, for services to carers

Ronald William Sawford (Kettering), co-founder and managing director of Teamwork Trust and co-founder of Hansa Class UK, for services to charity and to disabled people

Patricia Joan Barrett (Northampton), for services to the Children's Society and to the community in Old, Northamptonshire

Mabel Cardwell (Market Harborough, Leicestershire), for services to dance and to the community in Corby

David James Harrop (Northampton), for services to road safety and to charitable fundraising

Isabella Barbara Jenney (Rushden), councillor, North Northamptonshire Council and Rushden Town Council, for services to the community

Janine Constance Musson (Rushden), gymnastics coach, judge and lately chair of Bedfordshire Gymnastics Association, for services to gymnastics

Charles Marlow Obazuaye (Corby), director of human resources, customer services and public affairs, London Borough of Bromley, for public service

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