Honour for cancer sufferer Jane

Jane Tomlinson has raised millions of pounds for charity

Terminal cancer sufferer Jane Tomlinson is among people in West Yorkshire who have been recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.

Tomlinson, from Leeds, was made CBE for charitable services. The married mother-of-three has raised £1.5m in a series of gruelling challenges.

Councillor Bernard Peter Atha, has also been made MBE for services to the arts and to the community in Leeds.

Rodney Brooke, of Ilkley, has received a knighthood for public service.

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West Yorkshire's full honours list:

Knighthood

Rodney Brooke, CBL, chairman of the General Social Care Council, for public service.

CBE

Jane Tomlinson, MBE, from Leeds, for services to charity.

Councillor Bernard Peter Atha, OBE, for services to the arts and to the community in Leeds.

Felicity Mary Everiss, from Todmorden, regional director for the government office for Yorkshire and the Humber, department for communities and local government.

John Charles Harris, from Pontefract, chair of the Coal Authority, for services to industry.

OBE

John Stephen Beanland, from Bradford, senior executive officer and chair, trade unions side, department of health.

Dr Iain Lawson Blackwood, from Leeds, learning management system project manager for HM Revenue and Customs.

Dr Philip Antony Jones, president and chief operating officer, CE Electric UK, for services to the electricity industry.

Dr John Paul Vincent Whittaker, from Sowerby Bridge, founder and artistic director of Music and the Deaf, for services to music.

MBE

Jamil Akhtar JP, from Huddersfield, acting chief executive, Kirklees Racial Equality Council, for services to the community in Huddersfield.

Dr Robert Appleyard, from Ilkley, founder of Yorkshire County Cricket Club Charitable Youth Trust, for services to sport.

Peter Askham, caretaker of Halfpenny Lane School in Pontefract, for services to education.

Philip James Barfield, from Bradford, radio broadcaster at Bradford Hospital, for services to the welfare of patients.

Lynda Campbell, from Birstall, youth justice worker for Leeds City Council, for services to local government.

Ian Winston Charles, from Leeds, co-founder of Leeds West Indian Carnival, for services to the community.

Harry Clements, from Leeds, for services to the community in West Yorkshire.

Brenda Colbeck, from Batley, for services to the community in Batley.

Anne Grange, from Wakefield, for services to the independent monitoring board, HM Prison Leeds, and to the community in West Yorkshire.

Margaret Ellen Harrison, from Halifax, for services to Oxfam.

Douglas Edward Holliday, from Mirfield, licensing manager for Kirklees Metropolitan Council, for services to transport.

Kevin Shaun Howley, from Keighley, teacher at Oakbank School in Keighley, for services to education.

Christopher Alan Leech, from Sutton-in-Craven, youth and community liaison manager, Northern Rail, for services to transport.

Devi Dayal Sharma, from Bradford, trustee of the Dickie Bird Foundation, for services to the community in Bradford.

Cyril Villiers, from Leeds, chief executive of SportsAid, Yorkshire and Humberside, for services to sport.

Roy Wilson, from Knottingley, for services to local government and to the community in Selby, North Yorkshire.

Terence John Wyke, from Hebden Bridge, senior lecturer in history, Manchester Metropolitan University, for services to higher education and to local history.