MBE to end Zara's successful year

Zara will receive her gong from her grandmother, the Queen

The Royal three-day eventer Zara Phillips is one of ten people in Gloucestershire to be made an MBE.

The 25-year-old who is 11th in line to the throne, also won the vote for the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year.

She claimed individual gold on Toytown in the three-day eventing competition at the World Equestrian Games in Germany in August.

The Honour means Zara Phillips is one of the first senior royals to be awarded in the New Year Honours List.

---

Other Gloucestershire honours

CBE

John Wood. Actor, for services to drama (Chipping Campden)

OBE

Acting Col Michael Elston Bennett. Gloucestershire Army Cadet Force

John Holland. Director of operations, RAPID UK, for services to international Rescue (Hardwicke)

MBE

Raymond Henry Daniel Curtis. Foundation governor, Ampney Crucis Primary School, for services to education (Cirencester)

Alan Thomas Elliott. Founder and director, Forest Fitness Centre, for services to sport and voluntary community work in the Forest of Dean

John Anthony Ellis. Head, technology exploitation division, Space Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, for services to science (Stroud)

Colin Walter Hassall. Drug and alcohol team manager, for services to people who misuse drugs (Bisley)

David Norman. Retained sub-officer, Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service, for services to fire safety (Newent)

Mrs Alison Marjorie Elizabeth Saunders. For charitable services (Cirencester)

Victor Lockhart Shannon. Senior principal engineer, Ultra Electronics Holdings plc, for services to the defence industry (Cheltenham)

Michael John Tombs. Volunteer co-ordinator, volunteer recognition, National Trust, for services to heritage (Tetbury)

Mrs Susan Watkin. Formerly chair, Huntington's Disease Association, for charitable services