[Shaun]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27830525

Late teenage cancer fundraiser Stephen Sutton has become an MBE in a Queen's Birthday Honours List which also recognises actor Daniel Day-Lewis with a knighthood.

Stephen, who raised £4.2m for the Teenage Cancer Trust after his story spread on social media, accepted the honour for services to the charity shortly before his death, aged 19, in May.

Sir Daniel, the first person to win three best actor Oscars, is rewarded for services to drama.

Actress Angelina Jolie, meanwhile, has been made an honorary dame for services to UK foreign policy and campaigning to end sexual violence in war zones.
'Truly delighted'

Dame Maggie Smith joins the elite Companions of Honour while Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel, golfer Laura Davies and fashion designer Zandra Rhodes are among the other dames.

Classical pianist Andras Schiff, and Conservative MPs Nicholas Soames and Bill Cash are new knights. Labour's Dawn Primarolo, one of a handful of ministers to serve throughout the Blair and Brown governments, becomes a dame.

The list recognises 33 head teachers with five - including Andrew Carter, head of teaching school South Farnham Community Junior in Surrey - made knights or dames.

There is also a knighthood for Robert Francis QC, who chaired the public inquiry into failings at Stafford Hospital that led to hundreds of deaths between 2005 and 2008.

Team GB's Lizzy Yarnold, skeleton gold medallist at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, becomes an MBE as does visually-impaired skier Kelly Gallagher - the winner of Britain's first gold medal in a Winter Paralympics - and her guide Charlotte Evans.

Other sporting honourees include England women's cricket captain Charlotte Edwards, who is made a CBE; Leeds Rhinos and England rugby league captain Kevin Sinfield, an MBE, and Wales rugby union coach Warren Gatland said he was "very proud and sort of humbled" by his OBE.

There are also OBEs for Homeland actor Damian Lewis and the BBC's chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet, and a CBE goes to BBC Radio 4 Gardeners' Question Time presenter Roy Lancaster.

Some 560 - or 49% - of the 1,149 people honoured are women. It follows the New Year's Honours list, which featured more women - 51% - than men for the first time.

Stephen Sutton's fundraising attracted thousands of people after he drew up a "bucket list" of things he wanted to achieve before he died. It led to adventures including skydiving as well as playing drums in front of 90,000 people before the Uefa Champions League final at Wembley last May.

His mother, Jane, said that "though Stephen continually told all of us that he didn't do charity work for recognition, even he acknowledged that to be appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire was awesome".

She said she was "truly delighted and immensely proud of" her son, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer aged 15 and when he heard of the nomination "thought it was an incredible honour" and gave it his trademark "thumbs up".

Actress Jolie, who co-founded the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative with UK Foreign Secretary William Hague and was in London this week to host a summit, said receiving "an honour related to foreign policy means a great deal to me as it is what I wish to dedicate my working life to".

"Working on the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative and with survivors of rape is an honour in itself. I know that succeeding in our goals will take a lifetime and I am dedicated to it for all of mine."

the article goes on for years afterwards but yeah

[Kizzy]

I'm so pleased Stephen Sutton was honoured... the rest ? meh.

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

I'm so pleased Stephen Sutton was honoured... the rest ? meh.

My take too,Stephen was someone to really look up to and admire.

[Iceman]

Id hardly say a UN ambassodor like Angelina Jolie who if you've been watching or reading the media brings up issues as often as she can in interviews is a bit 'meh'

(Im not even a fan of hers im team Rachel :P)

[Livia]

Some well-deserved honours there, particularly Stephen Sutton who was an inspirational young man and Angelina Jolie, who is a true heroine in my eyes.

[Ammi]

..Stephen....great to see Maggie Smith there as well...

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Iceman

Id hardly say a UN ambassodor like Angelina Jolie who if you've been watching or reading the media brings up issues as often as she can in interviews is a bit 'meh'

(Im not even a fan of hers im team Rachel :P)

I didn't say she was meh.
I respect Angelina Jolie for her work there is no question about that.

[Marc]

Good ole Ange

[Nedusa]

Glad to see someone who actually deserved an honour receiving one.