Several locals have received gongs in the latest New Year's Honours List.

Author Pamela Winfield will received the MBE for her work setting up the Transatlantic Children's Enterprise which is an organisation that reunites wartime GI fathers with there long lost children.

Jean Venables will receive on OBE for her work with the Thames regional flood defence committee and William Tonar McMahon, treasurer of the Royal Television Society will be awarded an MBE.

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