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Gary Oldman and Roger Daltrey knighted in king’s birthday honours

Author Pat Barker and stage star Elaine Paige made dames and Antony Gormley becomes a Companion of Honour

Daltrey, 81, who launched the Teenage Cancer Trust’s Royal Albert Hall concerts, said he felt “very humbled” to be made a knight for services to charity and music and would be celebrating with “a bottle of plonk”. Tracy-Ann Oberman, who has also been in EastEnders and played Auntie Val in the Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner, has been made an MBE for services to Holocaust education and combating antisemitism. Anti-knife crime campaigners recognised include Pooja Kanda, who said she felt “overwhelmed” after being made an OBE for pressing for changes in the law after her 16-year-old son Ronan was murdered with a ninja sword near his Wolverhampton home in 2022.

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