ACTRESS Catherine Zeta-Jones received a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
An MBE also went to 90-year-old Bert Williams, goalkeeper in England’s shock defeat by the USA in 1950.
Jockey Tony McCoy was made an OBE and former Everton player Gary Speed became an MBE.
Skeleton racer Amy Williams, Britain’s first solo Winter Olympics gold medallist in 30 years, was also made an MBE, as were Coronation Street’s Eileen Derbyshire (Emily Bishop), Barbara Knox (Rita Sullivan) and Anne Reid.
An MBE went to ex-Formula One driver David Coulthard, OBEs to actors John Nettles and Sophie Okonedo, and CBEs to famous cooks Prue Leith and Marguerite Patten.
Poet Simon Armitage, who lives in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, was also given the CBE for services to literature.
The chief constable of Lancashire Police, Stephen Finnigan, was given the Queen’s Police Medal.
