New Year Honours List recognises local heroes

A GP, headteacher, and charity founder are among the local people to be recognised in the New Year Honours list.

Recipients in the New Year Honours List have been awarded for their outstanding contributions across all parts of the UK for their work on areas including sustained public service, youth engagement and community work.

The following people from Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Shropshire have been named in this year's list.

CBE

Louise Charlotte Smyth. Registrar of Companies and Chief Executive Officer, Companies House. For services to Public Life and to the Economy. (Newport, Gwent)

OBE

Robert Michael Denman VR. Governor, HM Prison Usk and Prescoed. For Public Service. (Usk, Gwent)

Karen Turner. Senior Operational Support Manager, HM Prison and Probation Service Wales. For Public Service. (Pontypool, Gwent)

Dr Matthew John Kearney. General Practitioner and Innovation Advisor, UCLPartners. For services to Health and to the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease. (Shrewsbury, Shropshire)

Peter Thornton Laybourn. Chair and Founder, International Synergies. For services to the Green Economy and to Climate Action through Industrial Symbiosis. (Church Stretton, Shropshire)

Professor Robert Mark Ormerod. Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost, Keele University. For services to Education and to Sustainability. (Whitchurch, Shropshire)

Dr Tracey Anne Cooper. Chief Executive, Public Health Wales NHS Trust. For services to Healthcare and to Public Health. (Coleford, Gloucestershire)

Nicholas Charles Gazzard. Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Hollie Gazzard Trust. For services to Tackling Violence Against Women. (Gloucester, Gloucestershire)

James Philip Hygate. Chief Executive Director, Green Fuels Ltd and Firefly Green Fuels Ltd. For services to Low Carbon Fuels. (Cheltenham, Gloucestershire)

MBE

Peter Lawson Bradwick. Wood Turner. For services to the Craft of Wood Turning. (Cwmbran, Gwent)

Jonathan Charlesworth. Co-Founder and Executive Director, Educational Action Challenging Homophobia. For services to Education, to Health, to Criminal Justice and to HM Government. (Abergavenny, Gwent)

Dr Rowena Christmas. Chair RCGP Wales and GP Principal, RCGP Wales and Wye Valley Practice. For services to General Practice. (Monmouth, Gwent)

Michael John Pudner Cope. President, Ebbw Vale Cricket Club and Football Club. For services to Sport, Health and Wellbeing. (Ebbw Vale, Gwent)

Roger Kenneth Evans. Chair, Friends of Friendless Churches. For services to Ecclesiastical Heritage in England and Wales. (Monmouth, Gwent)

Carole Evelynne Hopkins. For services to the community in Magor, Monmouthshire. (Caldicot, Gwent)

Miranda Abigail Appleton. Principal, Hereford College of Arts. For services to Further Education. (Hereford, Herefordshire)

The Reverend Dr Kenneth Victor John Hopkins. Chair of Trustees, Heart of Mercia Multi Academy Trust, Hereford. For services to Education. (Hereford, Herefordshire)

Gareth William Ratcliffe. Deputy Chair, Brecon Beacons National Park Authority and Councillor, Hay on Wye, Powys County Council. For Charitable Services to Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons). (Hereford, Herefordshire)

Karen Anne Rogers. Chief Executive, Herefordshire Care Homes Group. For services to Social Care. (Malvern, Worcestershire)

Wendy Ann Tarplee-Morris. Founder, Little Princess Trust. For services to Children and Young People with Cancer. (Hereford, Herefordshire

Elizabeth Fryer Davies. For services to the community in Kimbolton, Herefordshire. (Leominster, Herefordshire)

Philippa Jacqueline Jones. Board Member, United Kingdom Acute Oncology Society. For services to Oncology. (Oswestry, Shropshire)

Tracey Bowers. Team Leader, Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre Commemorations Team, Ministry of Defence. For services to the Armed Forces Community. (Cheltenham, Gloucestershire)

Peter Charles Gibbons BEM. Chief Security Officer, Network Rail. For services to the Railway and to Support for Ukraine. (Stroud, Gloucestershire)

Philippa Claire Jones. Director, Create Gloucestershire. For services to the Arts. (Cheltenham, Gloucestershire)

Simon Ross. Examiner, IAM and RoSPA BikeSafe and Biker Down Road Safety Workshops. For services to Road Safety for Motorcyclists in Gloucestershire. (Gloucester, Gloucestershire)

Dr Marion Shirley Andrews-Evans. Lately Executive Chief Nurse, NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board. For services to Nursing, Health and Care Services. (Chepstow, Gloucestershire)

Christopher Stephen Joseph Coley. For services to Sport Administration and to the community in Gloucestershire. (Cheltenham, Gloucestershire)

Emma Louise Mary Cox. For charitable services to the Royal British Legion. (Gloucester, Gloucestershire)

Dr Chantal Lavina Mary Fowler Lockey. Founder and Chief Executive Officer, The Foundation for Infant Loss Training. For services to Bereavement Care and to Reducing Infant Mortality. (Cheltenham, Gloucestershire)

Colleen Patricia Healy. Lately Foster Carer, Plymouth City Council. For services to Foster Care. (Gloucester, Gloucestershire)

David Richard Healy. Lately Foster Carer, Plymouth City Council. For services to Foster Care. (Gloucester, Gloucestershire)

Victoria Livingstone-Thompson. Chief Executive, Inclusion Gloucestershire. For services to Mental Health and to People with Disabilities in Gloucestershire. (Gloucester, Gloucestershire)

Asma Pandor. Lead Admiral Nurse, Dementia UK, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. For services to Nursing. (Gloucester, Gloucestershire)

Dr Roger David Ransome. For services to Bat Conservation. (Dursley, Gloucestershire)

Knights Batchelor

Dr Loyd Daniel Gilman Grossman CBE FRS. Chair, The Royal Parks. For services to Heritage. (Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire)