Colin Dorrance, the former police officer made an MBE, was a fresh recruit to the force, aged just 18 and half when he became one of the first on the scene when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie on December 21, 1988.
Off duty and on his way to a Christmas party, he ended up manning a temporary mortuary set up in Lockerbie Town Hall, and was handed the first body, a tiny 20-month-old girl, within a couple of hours. He retired last year at the age of 48.
For years he has acted as a friend, supporter and “tour guide” for visitors from America and elsewhere, who come to Lockerbie to try to understand what happened and to remember the 259 passengers and crew on board the plane and 11 on the ground who died. His efforts have now recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
Shereen Nanjiani, the first Asian-Scots TV presenter in Scotland, is made a MBE for services to broadcasting.
The 57-year-old BBC Radio Scotland presenter was also the longest-serving female news presenter at STV. She launched her radio career in 2006 after being the chief news anchor at STV Central. She had presented Scotland Today since 1987.
Laura Lee, named as a dame in the list, went from being a chemotherapy nurse to become co-founder of the internationally renowned Scottish cancer care charity Maggie’s. She has gone on to build an international charity that supports one-quarter of a million visits each year at 22 centres across the UK.
She was a young nurse at the Western General when Maggie Keswick Jenck was referred from her Dumfries home for treatment in 1993. It was Ms Jenck’s second cancer fight following a breast cancer diagnosis five years earlier. She passed away before she could see the first of the centres which took her name.
That first centre opened in Edinburgh in 1996, located within the Western General Hospital on Crewe Road.
- BIRTHDAY HONOURS: The full UK list
Ms Lee said: “Maggie had a vision of a place that would allow you to be an informed participant in your medical treatment, offering stress-reducing strategies, psychological support and the opportunity to meet other people in similar circumstances in a relaxed domestic atmosphere.
“She immersed herself in the plans to create the centre. The day before she died we sat together on her bed surrounded by papers and designs. I have met so many extraordinary people in our centres.”
- BIRTHDAY HONOURS: The full Scottish list
St Andrews University Professor Ian Boyd gets a knighthood for “visionary leadership, exemplary scientific research and innovative approach”. Holding a part-time post at the University, he also advises the Department for Environment, Food and rural Affairs (Defra).
He said: “I am delighted to have been honoured in this way. It is difficult to fully comprehend why I have been selected but I am very grateful. Throughout my life I have only tried to do those things which I thought were interesting and that might make a difference, and I have always tried to do them to the best of my ability.”
Professor Graham Wren, special adviser to the principal at Strathclyde University, becomes an OBE for services to education, science and engineering.
Two professors at the University of Glasgow are made CBEs: Professor Kenneth Alexander Brown for services to mathematical sciences; and Professor Michele Burman for services to criminology.
Brian Donohoe, a former Scottish Labour MP for Central Ayrshire, has been knighted for parliamentary and political service. Scots author Theresa Breslin who specialises in young adult fiction has been made an OBE, while Robin Ticciati, the 36-year-old former principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra is made an OBE .
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