Royal accolades for heroes in Shropshire and Mid Wales

He is among a number of people in Shropshire and Mid Wales mentioned in today's New Year Honours.

A sports teacher, a magistrate and a GP are among those who have been recognised for their efforts to make a difference to other people's lives.

OBE: Norman Dewis, for services to the motor industry

Mrs Margaret Willcox, of Bridgnorth, commissioning director for adults, Gloucestershire County Council, for services to Vulnerable People in the South West

Eric Arthur Windsor, of Whitchurch, formerly chairman National Bench Chairmen's Forum, for services to the Administration of Justice

MBE: Derek John Hayward, from Wem, for services to sport and young people

Dr Caron Morton, from Ruyton, accountable officer Clinical Commissioning Group, for services to Primary Care

Carol Scott, from Newport, senior executive officer, Ministry of Defence, for services in support of Military Operations

Heather Shepherd, from Shrewsbury, National Flood Forum, for services to the community.

BEM: Jack Andow, from Ludlow, for voluntary service to Royal Navy Veterans

Eleanor Mary Jane Gilbert, of Nesscliffe, for services to the community in Great Ness and Little Ness

Jessie May Miller, for services to the community in Oswestry Shropshire and to Women in Northern Ghana through Buttons for Africa

Pamela Twitchell, from Ludlow, former chairman, Ludlow Conservative Association, for voluntary political service; Robert Stuart Wysome, from Telford, for services to music

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Knights Bachelor: Elizabeth Shan Josephine, The Honourable Legge-Bourke, LVO

Lord-Lieutenant of Powys.

They are included with thousands more people from across Britain in the list, which has been made public today. Mr Dewis, a pensioner from Church Stretton, who still travels the world as a brand ambassador for Jaguar, said he was thrilled to have been recognised for his work.

"This is the cream on the cake. It's a privilege and an honour," said Mr Dewis, who joined Jaguar as a test driver in 1952 and also raced for the works team.

During his 33 years as a test driver, he developed 25 models for the company, including the legendary Jaguar C and D-types, which cleaned up at Le Mans during the 1950s.

Accompanying Stirling Moss in a C-type, he pioneered the use of disc brakes in the 1952 Mille Miglia (1,000-mile) race through Italy, re-enacting the feat to mark its 60th anniversary in 2012. He also drove a D-type for the Jaguar works team in the tragic 1955 Le Mans, witnessing the worst disaster in motorsport history when a crash killed 83 spectators and driver Pierre Levegh.

Mr Dewis said he learned of his nomination for the honour last month, after receiving an achievement award from the International Historic Motoring Awards.

"I got this letter from the Government telling me I had been nominated for the OBE. It's a great honour to me. It isn't something you get every day," he said.

He believed the award was partly in recognition for his work on the development of Dunlop's disc brakes, which had previously been restricted to the aviation industry, but were now the industry standard.

"We have probably saved a few thousand lives with those brakes, we have probably prevented a lot of accidents.

"Age is nothing, it's just a number, it's how you feel that counts. The thing that keeps you young is keeping busy."

Derek John Hayward, of Wem, has been awarded an MBE for his services to sport and young people in Shropshire.

Mr Hayward, 78, served as head of PE at Ilford County High School in Essex before moving to Shropshire to become a PE advisor until 1988. He was then promoted to the county's chief recreational services officer until his retirement in 1994.

In a voluntary capacityhe has given his time for a variety of sports for 45 years.

He said: "I am shocked as it came out of the blue but my family are delighted for me. It is a really positive thing I hope it encourages other voluntary workers in Shropshire."

Mr Hayward is a life member of Shropshire Schools' Sports and Athletic Association, chairman of Shropshire Schools Swimming Association and chairman of the Shropshire Playing Field Association.

Dr Caron Morton, accountable officer at the Clinical Commissioning Group, Shropshire, has been awarded a MBE for services to primary care.

She said: "While it is an honour I really want to make it clear I regard this as an award for the entire team at Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group. Without the team and their support I would not be able to achieve anything."

Dr Morton, who lives in Ruyton-XI-Towns, spent 10 years working as a GP partner, and still works as a GP for one day a week. She is also co-chairman of the national Urgent and Emergency Care Steering Group established by Sir Bruce Keogh.

Eric Arthur Windsor, of Whitchurch, a former chairman of the national bench chairman's forum, has been awarded an OBE for services to the administration of justice.

Councillor Rob Hewson, mayor of Whitchurch, said: "The OBE is well deserved. He is such a pillar of society and has done so much good for the town."

Jessie May Miller was awarded a BEM for services to the community in Oswestry and to women in northern Ghana through Buttons for Africa. Miss Miller, 31, of Nantmawr, said: "I am absolutely thrilled, if a little embarrassed. Honours are more usually given to people older than me, quite rightly, who have been involved in the community for decades."

Miss Miller helped set up the Buttons for Africa project which has given women in Ghana the chance to earn a living making heart shaped ornaments that are sold in the UK.

Closer to home she has been involved in the Oswestry based, Ace Drama group, for people with learning disabilities since she was 16.

A campaigner for young people has been awarded the British Empire Medal. Councillor Eleanor Gilbert, 54, an orthodontic technician, has helped keep Nesscliffe Youth Club open for almost 10 years. The Great Ness and Little Ness parish councillor said she was "gobsmacked".

Other awards included a Queen's Fire Service Medal for Richard Smith, the recently retired Chief Fire Officer of the Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Authority.

And the Lord Lieutenant of Powys, Shan Legge-Bourke has become a Knights Batchelor. She was born in and has lived in Powys all her life, except for when she was an army wife after her marriage in 1964 to William Legge-Bourke. She said: "I am very honoured and touched that the Queen felt, that on her behalf, I had contributed something to the county of Powys."

Paul Cummins and Tom Piper are both given MBEs in recognition of the immensely popular Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, which saw 888,246 ceramic poppies progressively fill the moat at the Tower – one for each British or Colonial military death during the First World War.

The artists are among 1,164 people recognised by the Queen in this year's list. Other prominent figures honoured this year are Esther Rantzen, actors John Hurt, Kristin Scott Thomas and Emily Watson, comedian Meera Syal, novelist Ali Smith, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and designer Mary Quant.

From the world of sport, former athletes Steve Cram and Dame Mary Peters, and Hillsborough campaigners Margaret Aspinall and Trevor Hicks are among those recognised, along with 103-year-old marathon runner Fauja Singh.

Former lord mayor of London Fiona Woolf, who resigned from her role as chair of the inquiry into historic child abuse, is given a damehood for services to the legal profession, diversity and the City of London.

The list also confirms OBEs for actors James Corden and Sheridan Smith while Joan Collins, 81, is made a dame for services to charity. Peter Asher, of 1960s pop duo Peter and Gordon is made a CBE, as is actor and comedian Meera Syal, 53.

There is a damehood for Mary Quant, 80, who is widely credited with popularising the miniskirt.