Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Status Quo rockers Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt, F1 champion Jenson Button and actor Patrick Stewart have been recognised with New Year Honours. After "Rockin' All Over the World" for more than 40 years and for charity work, Parfitt and Rossi become OBEs. Button is appointed an MBE, while there is a knighthood for rugby's four-time British Lions head coach Ian McGeechan. Star Trek and X-Men star Stewart, after a triumphant return to the UK stage in recent years, also becomes a knight. There have been more than 118 million worldwide record sales for Status Quo's Parfitt, 61, and Rossi, 60, whose hits include "Down Down" and "Whatever You Want". Parfitt admitted that he had "kind of given up hoping" for honours recognition some years ago. FULL HONOURS LISTS

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Departmental honours in full [144KB] Most computers will open this document automatically, but you may need Adobe Reader Download the reader here "To be perfectly honest with all the hard work we have put in over the years I accept it graciously," he added. Rossi said: "You start off rebellious, a teenager in a band, but you end up being part of the establishment." He added that the arrival of the letter announcing the honour had initially "frightened the pants off me... because it comes from the government". 'Humbled' There is a knighthood for Nicholas Hytner, the artistic director of the National Theatre and Bafta-winning maker of films including The Madness of King George and The History Boys. "I'm delighted and flattered," said the 53-year-old about his honour for services to drama. Sir Patrick spent 16 years with the Royal Shakespeare Company Also knighted for services to drama in a 50-year career, Stewart found worldwide fame in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation that ran from the late 1980s to mid-1990s. The actor complained that the iconic role of Captain Jean-Luc Picard became a handicap, with directors reluctant to cast the captain of the Starship Enterprise. But he went on to enjoy his biggest film role in three X-Men blockbusters, while a return to the UK in 2003 led to triumphant theatre appearances in Hamlet and Waiting for Godot. The 69-year-old said: "This is an honour that embraces those actors, directors and creative teams who have in these recent years helped fill my life with inspiration, companionship and sheer fun." I told my grandparents at the weekend and they just broke down in tears

Gymnast Beth Tweddle MBE

Send us your comments The worldwide stage and cinema hit Mamma Mia! became the biggest-selling DVD of all time in the UK, and its director Phyllida Lloyd is appointed a CBE. She said the honour was a "complete surprise", and had left her feeling "humbled". Paying tribute to her colleagues, she added: "One gets to be the captain of the ship, but ultimately you would not get anywhere without the cast and crew." Glory Button said that being appointed an MBE was the "crowning glory" of a year that had begun with him unsure of his involvement in Formula One after his car-maker, Honda, quit the sport. Button secured the 2009 drivers' title in the penultimate grand prix in Brazil "The past 12 months have provided me with such an exhilarating journey," he said. "We literally started with nothing, but had the belief, determination and passion to take on the world and succeed." Button's boss, the man who led a management buy-out and took the new Brawn GP team to the constructors' title, 55-year-old Ross Brawn, becomes an OBE. "Everybody at Brawn GP played their part - and it was down to their expertise, dedication and hard work that we were able to achieve so much," Button, 29, added. Sir Ian McGeechan is honoured for services to rugby in a distinguished playing and coaching career at club level, for Scotland and the British Lions. He was coach of the 1990 Gland Slam-winning Scotland side, and has masterminded two Lions Test series wins in Australia in 1989 and South Africa in 1997. Sir Ian played on two British Lions tours, later coaching on five trips Dedicating the knighthood to his family, 63-year-old Sir Ian said: "It is their constant support that has provided such an inspiration to me and this honour would not have been possible without them." Among other sports stars honoured is Britain's greatest ever gymnast, the two-time world champion Beth Tweddle. She is appointed an MBE after last year's remarkable gold medal win at the World Championships in London, where she triumphed in the less-favoured floor competition following a fall in her signature event on bars. Tweddle, 24, said the honour had come as a "total shock", adding: "I spoke to my grandparents at the weekend because I didn't want them to find out through the newspapers first, and they just broke down in tears. "That just showed me how much it meant to them, and how much these awards mean to people in general." Cricketer Claire Taylor is made an MBE after a year in which she helped England to the World Cup and World Twenty20 titles. She was named player of the tournament at both events and Women's Cricketer of the Year by the International Cricket Council, having become the first woman to make Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year list earlier in 2009. Ringmaster Some 979 people are recognised in the New Year Honours. There is a damehood for Dr Claire Bertschinger, whose appearance in BBC News reports by Michael Buerk of the 1984 Ethiopian famine helped inspire a global aid effort. Her account of having to choose which starving children to feed galvanised Bob Geldof to organise the Band Aid recording and Live Aid concert. Leaving school at 15 years old, never would I have dreamed that I would be recognised in this way

Ultimo boss Michelle Mone OBE Of her honour for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid, Dame Claire said: "It's an enormous honour. I was very moved and startled by receiving it." There is a knighthood for Erich Reich, chairman of the Kindertransport Group of the Association of Jewish Refugees, who has helped raise millions of pounds for charity. Sir Eric was four when he arrived in the UK as one of 10,000 "Kindertransport" children evacuated from Nazi-occupied Europe. Fashion industry figures are honoured with Ultimo lingerie boss Michelle Mone, designer Amanda Wakeley and milliner Stephen Jones all appointed OBEs. Mone, who has appeared as a contributor on BBC's The Apprentice: You're Fired show, said: "Leaving school at 15 years old, never would I have dreamed that I would be recognised in this way." Designers Luella Bartley and Cath Kidston, and London-based tailors Timothy Everest and Imtaz Khaliq are appointed MBEs. Children's author and illustrator Lauren Child, creator of the Charlie and Lola series, is awarded an MBE and Anthea Bell, co-translator of the Asterix comic books, gets an OBE. Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers, the co-founders and chefs of the Michelin-starred River Cafe restaurant in west London, are also appointed MBEs. There is a first ever honour for a circus ringmaster, with 73-year-old Norman Barrett of Zippo's Circus becoming an MBE. "This is a real boost for circus and in my view gives the art form the recognition it truly deserves and, sadly in modern times, so rarely gets," he said.



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