A charity chief and public servants are among the local names in an honours list that includes knighthoods for tennis champion Andy Murray and Olympic runner Mo Farah.
Sarah Brennan, 58, from Brighton, who runs the mental health charity Young Minds, becomes an OBE for services to children and young people’s mental health.
Andrew Young, 67, who was strategy director at the Pensions Regulator, having joined the Brighton-based organisation in 2009, becomes an OBE for services to pension policy and pensioners.
Detective Constable Louise Pye, 47, started her career as a police officer in Brighton and has been instrumental in caring for thousands of families of the victims of serious crimes or disasters. She has been awarded the Queen’s Police Medal.
A British Empire Medal has been awarded to Mark Walder, a special sergeant in the British Transport Police, for voluntary service. His patch with the railway police force includes Brighton and Hove and the trains and stations used by thousands of commuters from the area.
And Jim Duffy, the driving force behind Entrepreneurial Spark, the business incubator which has one of its 12 bases in Preston Road, Brighton, becomes an MBE.
Sarah Brennan became chief executive of Young Minds in May 2008, having acted as its interim chief executive for almost a year before that.
She has spent more than 25 years as a champion of young people’s causes, starting out in youth and community work, teaching and youth counselling.
Her previous roles include director of services at the youth homelessness charity Centrepoint, before becoming chief executive of Motiv8, another young people’s charity.
Andy Young is an actuary from Glasgow who has spent years shaping pensions policy, often to help those like the BHS pensioners, who have been let down by their employer.
He helped to design the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) and later carried out the Young Review to help members of pension schemes not covered by the PPF.
Mr Young has served on a number of representative bodies such as the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and the International Actuarial Association.
Pensions expert Henry Tapper said: “Andy is no ordinary actuary. We sometimes underestimate the difference that a few people can make on the way things work. Andy is one of those few people.
“For the tens of thousands of people whose pensions are paid by the PPF, for the millions that will enjoy better state pensions from 2016 and hopefully for those of us who get better private pensions as a result of the ‘defined ambition’ pension, we have Andy (at least in part) to thank.
“He’s a one-off and Britain is a better place because of him.”
Detective Constable Louise Pye – known as Lou to her colleagues – has served as a member of Sussex Police for 29 years, specialising in family liaison.
She’ll live in the UK’s ‘Hall of Fame’
(She got there blow-by-blow)
Your kids will tell THEIR kids her name;
Good old Elizabeth the Second-oh!
Happy New Year, and best wishes to each and every one of you….
That’s beautiful, that is.
Happy new year to all