The dedicated care of two Bradford nurses has been recognised in the New Year Honours List.

Mavis Watson, 59, who set up one of the first stomatology services in the country at St Luke's Hospital, Bradford, 20 years ago, was celebrating the award of an OBE.

And operating theatres nurse Brenda Horne has been awarded an MBE recognising her nursing work for three decades in surgery at Bradford Royal Infirmary.

Mrs Watson, of Harden, who retires in June, has become internationally known for her work in the field and became the first English nurse to hold the post of president of the World Council of Enterostoma-therapists.

"I think it's recognition for nursing and for Bradford and, I must say, to Bradford Hospitals Trust which has been more than supportive of my career," she said.

Mrs Horne, 55, who is team leader in thoracic surgery and pain therapy, plays a key nursing role during chest surgery and also trains nurses and deals with the growing speciality to reduce pain following surgery.

"I do feel very much part of a team and this is recognition for a lot of other people who work in our theatres," she said.

Modest bus driver Trevor Foster, of Drighlington, who has been driving for Farnley-based Taylors buses on the same route from Morley to Moortown for six years is flabbergasted after being awarded an MBE. The 64-year-old is still trying to work out who nominated him for his services to public transport. He heard the news from his wife Isobel, 61, who flagged him down on his route waving a letter from 10, Downing Street.

Geoffrey Vere, T&A York-shire Observer correspondent and founder of the Ilkley and District Council for Voluntary Service (Good Neighbours), has become an MBE for his services to the community.

Mr Vere started Ilkley Good Neighbours charity in 1974 to combat loneliness and other problems in the community.

Bradford textile businessman Nirmal Singh has received an MBE for his services to community relations.

He said: "I am very happy and very proud because the work I had done was for the whole community." As well as being chairman of the Yorkshire Sikh Forum, he is a member of West Yorkshire Police Forum, Brad-ford West Crime Prevention Panel and has served on police community panels since 1971.

Jack Walker, 63, of Baildon, a paper keeper at the Inland Revenue's Accounts Office at Shipley, has become an MBE in recognition of the 13 years' service he has given to the Inland Revenue and the Public and Commerce Service Union.

Rochdale solicitor Richard Greenwood, a member of Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, who was chairman of the railway's operating company for 30 years, has been awarded the MBE for his services to railway preservation. He has been a member of K&WVR since the mid 1960s.

Another NHS award-winner is the former chairman of Bradford Community Health NHS Trust, Michael Schofield, who has been made a CBE.

Mr Schofield, who became chairman of Dorset Comm-unity NHS Trust in 1996, said he was delighted to be given the honour which was for services to the NHS.

West Yorkshire Police Assistant Chief Constable Lloyd Clarke has received the Queen's Police medal for Distinguished Service.

Driving instructor Ahmad Yusuf Lunat, 61, of James Street, Batley, receives an OBE for helping to promote racial harmony in Kirklees and helping to regenerate his home town.

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Honours for 'Mr History'

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