New Year’s Honours: The region’s business and political recipients
BUSINESS and political leaders from across Yorkshire have been recognised in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours.
- Colin Glass, the founding partner of accountants Winburn Glass Norfolk and prolific non-executive director, has become an OBE.
- Nigel Richardson, who retired in September after six years as Leeds City Council’s director of children’s services in September as part of a 30-year career working in social care and local government roles, was awarded a CBE.
- Doncaster Council mayor Ros Jones, who was elected in May 2013, has received a CBE for services to local government.
- James Newman, former chairman of Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership and chairman of Finance Yorkshire and Fishing Republic, received an OBE for services to business, the economy and charity in Yorkshire.
- David Cussons has been awarded an MBE for services to Agriculture and Rural Communities in North Yorkshire, particularly through the Ryedale Agricultural Show.
- Chris MacCormac, chief executive of educational charity and training provider Morthyng Group, received an MBE for services to education and business in South Yorkshire.
- Stanley Shaw, a 90-year-old Master Cutler has been awarded a British Empire Medal for services to manufacturing in Sheffield. Mr Shaw has worked in the cutler trade in the city since 1941, set up on his own as a little mester in 1983, and still works two days a week.
