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Old 30-12-2016, 09:55 PM #1
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Default New Year's Honours List 2017 (Murray, Farah knighted, Ennis-Hill, Grainger dame)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38470732

Andy Murray, Mo Farah, Lee Pearson, Ray Davies, Bryn Terfel, Mark Rylance and Ken Dodd all receive knighthoods, whereas Patricia Routledge, Jessica Ennis-Hill, Katherine Grainger and Anna Wintour are all made dames.

Nick Skelton, Charlotte Dujardin, Sascha Kindred, Sophie Christiansen, Anya Hindmarch, Peter Brookes and Angela Rippon are made CBE.

Kate Richardson-Walsh, Nicola Adams, Katie Archibald, Jody Cundy, Chris Coleman, Naomie Harris, Helen McCrory, Tim Piggott-Smith, Maggie Philbin and Victoria Beckham receive an OBE

Alan Woodhouse, Matt Whitlock, Helen Richardson-Walsh, Adam Peaty, Gordon Reid, Saskia Clark, Kadeena Cox, Chris Mears, Jack Laugher, Sam Quek and Jonathan "Aggers" Agnew receive an MBE

Among many others

Full list: https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...-full-list.pdf
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I think all the Gold medallists did, didn't they?

Which sort of over-saturates it and makes it a bit more meaningless, but oh well they deserve it.
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I just realised I said Jess was knighted in the title because I clearly do not understand gender norms, I have now changed that
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