Darts ace Luke Littler bags huge gong in King's Birthday Honours alongside Strictly pair, Hollywood icon & ex-Towie star

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DARTS world champion Luke 'The Nuke' Littler has been made an MBE in the King's Birthday Honours.
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Darts world champion Luke 'The Nuke' Littler has been made an MBE in the King's Birthday Honours at just 17 years of age
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He has raised the sport's profile with millions of youngsters.
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Here's how the awards were divided up among the wider spectrum of British life, from sport to showbiz and business...
SPORT
Darts champs given MBEs
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Luke became the youngest world champion at 17 years and 347 days in January
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Fellow darts champ Luke Humphries, 30, has also bagged an MBE
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DARTS is celebrating a double top in the King's Birthday Honours after world champion Luke Littler and
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The arrows aces — more used to Ally Pally than Buckingham Palace — have massively boosted the sport's profile.
Kebab fan Luke 'The Nuke' Littler, 18, became the youngest world champion at 17 years and 347 days in January.
Humphries, 30, pipped him in the 2024 PDC final.
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He said: 'It'll take a while to sink in but I'm immensely proud and it's such an emotional moment for me to share with my family.'
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Wimbledon champ Virginia Wade is made a CBE.
Two-time Olympic triathlon gold medallist Alistair Brownlee is made an OBE.
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In cricket,
England
pace bowler
Devon
Malcolm becomes an OBE.
Wicketkeeper Steven Davies has been made an MBE, as has bowler David Lawrence, who took 625 wickets for Gloucestershire.
Monica Vaughan, ten-time Paralympic swimming gold medallist, becomes an OBE.
Andy Lapthorne, a 17-time grand slam champion in wheelchair tennis, is an MBE.
The same honour goes to boxer Natasha Jonas, motorcyclist
PM Sir Keir Starmer said: 'Each recipient reflects the very best of Britain. I extend my heartfelt congratulations and gratitude to them all.'
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SHOWBIZ & CHARITY
It's Knight service for Sir Gary
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Strictly hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman — favourites of Queen Camilla — get MBEs
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Slow Horses star Gary Oldman, who plays sharp-minded spymaster Jackson Lamb, is knighted
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Love Island's Georgia Harrison is made an MBE for her fight against violence to women — after ex Stephen Bear was jailed for revenge porn
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ACTOR Gary Oldman who plays the shambling but razor-sharp spy boss in Slow Horses is knighted.
The Londoner, 67, was the only major-category Oscar winner yet to be honoured.
Strictly hosts Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman — favourites of Queen Camilla — get MBEs.
Tess said: 'This came as the greatest surprise of my life.
'I don't think I've come back down to
earth
.'
Claudia, who also fronts The Traitors, added: 'I will celebrate with Tess by doing a paso doble.'
The Who rocker Roger Daltrey is knighted for work with the Teenage Cancer Trust.
Love Island's
West End star
Actresses
Morton
get OBEs.
Angel of the North sculptor Sir
Antony
Gormley is a Companion of Honour.
Three family members receive British Empire Medals for Calum's Cabin, a charity which provides holiday
homes
for children facing cancer.
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Actress Samantha Morton gets an OBE
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EastEnders icon Anita Dobson also receives an OBE
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The Who rocker Roger Daltrey is knighted for his work with the Teenage Cancer Trust
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Angel of the North sculptor Sir Antony Gormley is a Companion of Honour
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Duncan Caroline and Jenna Speirs, from Bute, Scotland, said the idea was started by Calum, Jenna's twin, who had an inoperable brain tumour at 12 and died in 2006.
Jenna said: 'Calum spoke to children who'd never seen the sea, or been on a ferry.
'It's special for us to be honoured together.'
Alison Magdin and daughter Carly Barrett who have fought to end knife crime in the North East, following the death of their daughter and sister Samantha, get MBEs.
The youngest Honours recipient is 11-year-old Carmela Chillery-Watson MBE, who fundraises despite a life-limiting muscle-wasting condition.
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WAR HERO
Arnhem survivor Geoff, 99, bags accolade
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War hero Geoff Roberts, 99, who survived the ill-fated Battle of Arnhem in 1944, is made an MBE after decades of returning to honour fallen comrades
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SURVIVOR
of doomed
Every time, he has visited the graves of his two best pals who took part in the nine-day airborne invasion immortalised in the
film
A Bridge Too Far.
He was the only survivor last year from the 3,500 who took part who was fit enough to return.
Geoff, a Private in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, said: 'We failed, and the people of Arnhem paid a heavy price for us trying to liberate them — but they're still thanking us after all this time.'
Geoff, of Peterborough, received his gong for services to the commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem and to charity.
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POLITICS
Borders boss gets rewarded
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Border Force chief Philip Douglas is awarded a top honour — despite record Channel migrant crossings on his watch
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BORDER Force's boss is getting a gong — despite a
Director general Philip Douglas becomes a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB), given to the military and civil service figures.
The honours also include a damehood for former MP and Leader of the House of Commons
The former Defence Secretary said it was 'lovely to be appreciated in this way'.
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