New Year Honours: Annie Lennox leads Scots' march to the palace

Published on Thursday 30 December 2010 18:31

POP star turned charity campaigner Annie Lennox leads the list of Scots named in the New Year Honours List.

Lennox, 56, who found fame with the Eurythmics before going on to have a successful solo career, joked she would be "getting her fake leopard pillbox hat" ready to collect the OBE.

Other high-profile recipients include Andrew Goudie, the Scottish Government's chief economic adviser, who becomes a companion of the Order of the Bath, while Anne Begg, the first full-time wheelchair user to become an MP, becomes a dame.

Sandy Gall, the Scottish-educated veteran broadcaster, becomes a CMG - meaning he is made a companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.

Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, who set up the charity Mary's Meals after an encounter with a starving family in Malawi, also receives an OBE.

He formed the organisation, which provides meals for children in struggling nations, after coming across a mother who was dying of Aids and lying on the floor of her hut surrounded by her six young children.

Across the UK, those honoured include Poirot actor David Suchet and Ryder Cup-winning golfer Graeme McDowell.

Gongs also go to football referee Howard Webb, who made up for England's disappointing World Cup performance by taking charge of the final in Johannesburg, and veteran actress Sheila Hancock.

Some of the honours for senior figures from the business world could prove controversial. There are knighthoods for Martin Broughton, chairman of British Airways, Roger Carr, chairman of energy giant Centrica, and Richard Lambert, the outgoing director-general of the CBI.

A CBE is awarded to Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen, 41, from London, who directed the 2008 film Hunger about the 1981 hunger strike by Republican prisoners in Northern Ireland.

Pc Ivor Macgregor, 62, who disarmed and detained the gunman who tried to kidnap the Princess Royal in 1974, receives the Queen's Police Medal.

Contributions to music are recognised with CBEs for Durham-born record producer Trevor Horn, 61, and composer Howard Goodall, 52, who created the theme tunes for TV shows including Blackadder and Mr Bean.