King's Birthday Honours list 2024: Full list of the incredible people from Greater Manchester and Cheshire recognised

Scores of unsung heroes from across Greater Manchester have been recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours.

His Majesty’s inaugural birthday honours list features a host of incredible people whose tireless work is the very best of what the country has to offer.

A former Corrie star, GMP investigators, dedicated mechanics, scientific marvels and outstanding patient champions are among those who have been celebrated for their work in the region.

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Campaigners who have fought for a better quality of life for their communities have also been recognised. This includes Pauline Binns-Tulloch, whose award-winning community complex Limelight, which serves as a health and wellbeing hub for the elderly and vulnerable, has seen her honoured with an MBE.

This year over 97 people across the North West have been given an honour. Some 9.2 per cent of the recipients are people from the North West this year.

Lead singer of Manchester band M People, Heather Small and former Corrie star Shobna Gulati, from Oldham, are just some of the famous faces named.

Also receiving an honour is former headteacher and now Chief Executive of the Trust, Neville Lewis Beischer, who has dedicated over 22 years of his life to Wright Robinson College.

Neville has been awarded an MBE for services to education along with a list of previous awards for helping transform the struggling inner-city school in Gorton (one of the poorest areas of the country) into one of the largest and most successful state-funded secondary schools in the country.

In 2014, he even intervened as the college’s school-based police officer was attacked in the main reception area - where