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As well as Olympic-related gongs, there's a reasonable haul for other parts of the BBC in the latest honours list. Kay Alexander, who retired last October from presenting breakfast and lunchtime tv bulletins for Midlands Today, becomes an MBE, as does Harry Gration (roughly the same age, but still presenting Look North from Leeds).

There's an OBE for Gareth Gwenlan, now 76, who began his association with BBC Comedy in 1967. As head of department he commissioned Yes Prime Minister, Blackadder (which assisted Tony Robinson and Rowan Atkinson with their careers), 'Allo 'Allo, One Foot In The Grave and more. Before that he'd produced and/or directed The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Butterflies, To The Manor Born, and Only Fools And Horses.

Alongside that, there's another for comedy producer Jon Plowman, who worked directly for Auntie from 1980 to 2007 - starting with Russell Harty, and moving through sketch shows with Fry and Laurie, French and Saunders  and Smith and Jones, to Bottom, Absolutely Fabulous, The Vicar of Dibley, The League of Gentlemen, The Office, Little Britain and The Thick of It.

Actor David Haig, who probably won't want to be remembered for the Ben Elton sitcom-comeback, The Wright Way, becomes an MBE.

BBC special correspondent Sue Lloyd Roberts, who became an MBE for reporting on trafficking in human organs in 2001, steps up to OBE. Sue take her mind off human rights some of the time running a hotel in Mallorca with husband Nick Guthrie, ex-BBC foreign editor and producer, who still edits Dateline London for BBC World.