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Hat-trick a-hoy: Honour takes family tally to three
TRIPLE gold medal winning cyclist Chris Hoy has scored another hat-trick – both he and his mother are honoured in the Queen's New Year's Honours list, 20 years after his grandmother also received a gong.
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The hero of the Bejing Olympics gets a knighthood while his mother Carol is made an MBE for service to healthcare.
His late grandmother, Isa Reid, became an MBE in 1989 for her work as chairman of the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Hoy said: "To become a knight from riding your bike, it's mad. But it is, genuinely, just an amazing honour, it's also great for the sport."
The list this year is dominated by the record-breaking Team GB – and distinctly light from the finance or banking sectors. Other winners from Bejing honoured include 10 other members of the British cycling team and British Cycling performance director David Brailsford.
Mansfield-based swimmer Rebecca Adlington who won two golds gets an OBE and 14-year-old Paralympian Eleanor Simmonds is made an MBE. She now becomes the youngest person to be given an honour.
Yorkshire sailor Paul Goodison, rower Andy Hodge and cyclist Ed Clancy also receive gongs.
Racing driver Lewis Hamilton is made an MBE in the year he won the Formula One championship, while fantasy author and Alzheimer's campaigner Terry Pratchett is given a knighthood.
Other celebrities honoured include Robert Plant, the Led Zeppelin frontman, who is made a CBE, and the actor Michael Sheen – most famous for playing Tony Blair in The Queen – who receives an OBE.
Dragons' Den star Peter Jones is made a CBE for services to business, entrepreneurship and young people and Liz Smith, the 87-year-old actress most famous for playing Nana in The Royle Family, is made an MBE.
MBEs also go to child protection campaigner Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter Sarah was murdered in 2000, and six survivors of the July 7, 2005 terrorist attacks on London.
Locally, a knighthood has been given to Paul Edwards, headmaster of Garforth Community College in Leeds, for services to education and others honoured include a gardener from Leeds.
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