A retained firefighter and a headteacher are among the Shropshire people who are receiving honours in this year’s list.
Michael Howe, Market Drayton Fire Station manager, has been a retained firefighter for more than 42 years. He has been awarded an MBE for services to local government.
Robert Ryan Jervis, former headteacher at the Lakelands School sports and language college, Ellesmere, and current head at the Adcote School, receives an OBE. He said: “I am delighted, it is a great honour to receive this but I am also humbled because it is due to a lot of wonderful people. I would not have been able to do what I did at Lakelands, where I became head in 1995, without the parents, governors and superb children.”
He began his teaching career in 1970 at Meole Brace School in Shrewsbury. He has taught in Church Stretton and Oswestry.
He is looking forward to taking his family to the investiture.
Mr Howe, 64, has done 42 years with the county fire service and will retire at the end of the month.
“I think there are far more people out there more deserving than me but to be recognised after all these years serving the town is wonderful,” he said.
Mr Howe said he was looking forward to the presentation ceremony in London and would be taking his wife, Susan, and sons Christopher, 33, and Nicholas, 36.
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Wow well done!