AS A LA-MBE

by Robin Bird

TOWN CENTRE Manager Larry Embra is happy as a lamb at getting an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List: happy to receive the award on behalf of Birkenhead market and shop traders, whom he describes as one happy family.

Council employee Larry heads a team promoting Birkenhead as the most improved town centre in the North West. He also devotes a lot of personal time to helping local charities. He gets the MBE for services to the town centre and the communities in Birkenhead and Wirral.

Hoylake Lifeboat coxswain David Dodd (pictured below) is equally delighted to receive an MBE accepting the honour 'on behalf of the station' while acknowledging 'the vital parts played by crew, the station committee, wives, girlfriends and helpers.'

Footballer John Barnes - who lived in Wirral - was awarded an MBE along with Charles Connor, for services to Citizens Advice in West Kirby.

Mrs Iris Moss gets an MBE for services to the Motor Neurone Disease Association in Wirral, while Terence Robinson receives one for services to the community, especially the Reserve Forces in Merseyside and Wirral.

Singled out for praise in the medical profession is Gillian Oliver, head nurse and director of Patient Services at Clatterbridge, with a DBE for services to health care.

An OBE went to Professor Ronald Jones, professor of Veterinary Anaesthesia University of Liverpool for services to veterinary medicine in Wirral and on Merseyside.

An Order of the British Empire goes to Stanley Robertson, of Caldy, Chief Inspecting Officer of Railways, Health and Safety Executive DoE.

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