Saturday, December 31, 2016

Queen’s New Year’s Honours Rutland and Leicestershire 2017

Queen’s New Year’s Honours Rutland and Leicestershire 2017

Trevor McIlwaine A Queen's Fire Service Medal, group manager at Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service.




















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Mrs Angela Elizabeth Humphreys, BEM for services to the community in Oakham. Rutland



Mrs Dorothy Pickering, BEM  head dinner lady, at Mercenfield Primary School, Markfield, for services to the community in Markfield, Leicestershire.


Pc Brian "Reg" Varney, BEM Leicestershire Police

Retired Leicestershire Police officer Sue Lambert, BEM for services to the community in Market Harborough.

Retired Leicestershire Police officer Sue Lambert, 57, picks up a BEM for services to the community in Market Harborough.

Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, Emeritus Professor at the University of Leicester, is made a Companion of Honour for services to medical research and society.

Receiving an Order of the British Empire are:

Jane Ann Gray, a consultant nurse, for services to Homeless and Vulnerable People in the Midlands.

Dr Sharon Patricia Redrobe, the chief executive officer of Twycross Zoo, for services to skills, science and the economy in Leicestershire.

Professor Rachel Anne Munton, formerly MD of East Midlands Academic Health Science Network for services to Healthcare.

Professor Anne Elizabeth Willis, from Oakham, Rutland, director or MRC Toxicology Unit Leicester, for services to Biomedical Science and Promoting the Careers of Women in Science.



























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Claire Lomas, of Eye Kettleby MBE

BBC cricket commentator Jonathan "Aggers" Agnew MBE

Chief executive of the Enderby firm, Ian Mattioli MBE and Bob Woods MBE

Priyesh Patel, MBE, managing director of Cofresh Snack Foods

Paralympian Elizabeth Clegg based at Loughborough University has been awarded an MBE or services to athletics and charity.

Edmund Francis Paul Nickless, MBE formerly executive secretary of the Geological Society of London, for service to Geology, from Oakham, Rutland


Kathryn Parsons, MBE co-founder and co-chief executive officer of Decoded for services to Digital Education

Michael Gerrard Roughan, MBE chairman of Shropshire Telford and Wrekin and Leicestershire and Rutland Adoption Panels, for services to children and to the community.

Emma Clare Wiggs, MBE of Diseworth, for services to canoeing

Anthony David Arnold William Forbes, MBE chairman of the Royal Choral Society, from Oakham, for services to music

Dorothy Francis, MBE  chief executive officer of the Co-operative and Social Enterprise Development Agency, for services to enterprise and the community,

Uzma Johal, MBE festival director of Frequency Festival and co-founder and director of Threshold Studios, for services to the digital economy.

Friday, December 30, 2016

Christmas 2016 Leicester City Centre England UK

Christmas 2016 Leicester City Centre England UK







Armed Police Guard the Christmas Tree








Former BHS Food Store










Former BHS Store







Leicesters Big Wheel

















Former BHS Food Store








Easter Eggs have arrived at 
Marks and Spencer













Homeless Camp











New Style Train Tickets 
we were told the QR code
would open the gates at Leicester
The train company different from
that operates the station does not 
know there are no readers on the gates.









Former BHS Store
I wonder who is paying the 
electricity bill











Rainbow and Dove Christmas Tree







Reflex Closing Down 








St Martin's in the fog









Leicester Town Hall








Valentines has arrived at 
Marks and Spencer





Street Drinkers Fighting On The Streets Of Leicester Video

Street Drinkers Fighting On The Streets Of Leicester Video



When I visit Leicester I am always a little cautious and know the areas of the city that
generally should be avoided.

This afternoons visit left me a bit surprised, the street drinkers have moved into all the
main shopping streets.

Granby Street was quiet, Gallow Tree Gate a main shopping street was like a war zone.

Outside the old BHS a man was threatening to stab a group of four men.
Fortunately he did not appear to have a knife.

Walking further along the street full of shoppers many families and children
another two men were fighting watched by two other men who appeared drunk.

A child in a push chair was covered in beer.

What I found unsettling was the lack of interest shown by Leicestershire Police
or should I say useless PCSO's who seemed to be hiding in the shadows.

One member of the public told me he was concerned because he had tried to seek
assistance from a officer in a car not from the clock tower and he just drove off.

Maybe the Chief Constable Simon Cole can take a look at the tracking system and
have a word with the officer who may have deserted his duty.

A number of member of the public spoke to the armed officers guarding the Christmas
Tree and they did take notice and split up four men outside Game.

Although the incidents were unpleasant for many, there were some who were
laughing and enjoying the street fighting.

Some people said it happens all the time now.




Remembering The well Known We Lost in 2016 Photos and Video

January


10th David Bowie - music icon




14th Alan Rickman - actor






18th Glen Frey - of the Eagles




23rd Jimmy Bain - rock band Rainbow


30th  Frank Finnlay - film actor





31st Terry Wogan - radio/tv legend


February





3rd Maurice white - earth wind and fire fame




19th Harper Lee - to kill a mockingbird author




28th Frank Kelly - father jack from father ted fame



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28th George Kennedy - movie actor



March





1st Tony Warren - Coronation street creator.




8th  George Martin - The Beatles producer



11th Keith Emerson - Emerson lake and palmer fame.


15th Sylvia Anderson - lady Penelope from thunderbirds.



16th Frank Sinatra jnr 



17th Paul Daniels - magician.



29th Patty Duke - film and tv personality



31st Ronnie Corbett - 1/2 of comedy duo legends.




31st Denise Robertson - tv agony aunt


April




6th Merle Haggard - singer song writer




12th David Gest- friend to the stars




20th Victoria Wood - female comedienne 




20th Joanie Lauren - WWE wrestling legend.



21st Lonnie Mack - blues guitarist



21st Prince



21st Guy Hamilton - Bond actor



24th Billy Paul 

May



17th Guy Clark - country legend



19th John Berry - beastie boys star



21st Nick Menza - megadeath drummer



24th Burt Kwouk - Pink Panther fame



31st  Carla Lane - liver birds writer and more

June 



3rd  Muhammad Ali - he was the greatest




14th Henry McCullough - wings guitarist



19th Anton Yelchin - Star Trek Chekhov



24th Bernie Worrall - funkadelic star




28th Scotty Moore - Elvis's guitarist


July



2nd Caroline Aherne - comedy actress



16th Alan Vega - suicide punk pioneer

August 



2nd David Huddleston - Santa from Santa Claus the movie


13th  Kenny Baker - R2D2


15th  Dalian Atkinson - Villa cup hero



29th Gene Wilder - Comedy genius


September 


11th Alexis Arquette - transgender actress


17th Charmaine Carr - sound of music star


25th Arnold Palmer - golfing legend.

October 



14th Jean Alexander - corries Hilda Ogden 




23rd  Pete Burns - dead or alive frontman




24th Bobby Vee - 1960s teen idol


November 



7th  Leonard Cohen - iconic singer songwriter



11th Robert Vaughn - veteran actor.



13th Leon Russell - musician




24th Colonel Abrams - 80s pop star



25th Florence Henderson - from the Brady bunch



26th Ron Glass - us tv star


December 



1st Andrew Sachs - Qué? Fawlty towers fame



6th Peter Vaughn - game of thrones 


7th Ian Cartwright - Wolves footballer


8th John Glen - first human to orbit Earth 



8th Greg Lake - of Emerson Lake and palmer 


10th AA Gill - writer and critic



10th  Ian McCaskill - tv weatherman


12th Walter Swinburn - Derby winning jockey



18th Zsa Zsa Gabor - movie star


23rd Piers Sellers - Astronaut & climate scientist



24th Rick Parfitt - Quo legend



24th Liz Smith - Nana in the Royal family



25th George Michael - pop icon



27th Carrie Fisher- Star Wars icon 


27th Richard Adams - Watership Down author


28th Debbie Reynolds was an American actress, singer, businesswoman, film historian, and humanitarian. Her breakout role came in the portrayal of Helen Kane in the 1950 film Three Little Words
mother of carrie fisher

28th 

Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, 91, Uruguayan politician, President (1981–1985).

Pierre Barouh, 82, French actor (A Man and a Woman), writer and musician, heart attack.

Anthony Cronin, 88, Irish poet and novelist.

Michel Déon, 97, French novelist and literary columnist, pulmonary embolism.

Donya Fannizadeh, 49, Iranian puppeteer (Kolah Ghermezi), cancer.

Lev Gor'kov, 87, Russian-born American physicist.

M. D. Harmon, 71, American newspaper columnist (Portland Press Herald), accidental gunshot wound.
Annelise Hovmand, 92, Danish director and screenwriter (Be Dear to Me).

Knut Kiesewetter, 75, German jazz musician, singer-songwriter and producer.

Sunder Lal Patwa, 92, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh (1980, 1990–1992), heart attack.

Bruce D. Porter, 64, American Mormon elder, member of the First Quorum of the Seventy (since 2003).
Jean-Christophe Victor, 69, French political scientist.

Ellen Watters, 28, Canadian racing cyclist, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.

Bernard Zaslav, 90, American viola soloist.


29th 
Raymond Burki, 67, Swiss cartoonist.

Keion Carpenter, 39, American football player (Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Falcons), injuries sustained in a fall.

Kamal Mani Dixit, 87, Nepalese writer.

LaVell Edwards, 86, American football coach (BYU Cougars), complications from a broken hip.

Norman Rimmington, 93, English footballer (Hartlepool, Barnsley), kidney failure.

Lucien Schaeffer, 88, French footballer (Valenciennes, RC Strasbourg).

Cyril deGrasse Tyson, 89, American civil rights activist.

30th 

Matt Carragher, 40, English footballer (Wigan, Port Vale), cance