King's Birthday Honours
SWANSEA: MBE news reaches cancer doctor 5,000 miles away as he teaches in India
A Swansea cancer consultant was more than 5,000 miles from home — teaching on a course in India — when…
TENBY: King’s medal for the Welsh Ambulance Service trailblazer — and Wales’ first female Consultant Paramedic
Paula Jeffery, who lives near Tenby, has been awarded the King's Ambulance Service Medal after nearly four decades of pioneering…
CARMARTHEN: ‘I read it three times’ — MBE for the hospice nurse who’s spent a career at the end of life
Kiera Jones, a Soul Midwife at Skanda Vale Hospice near Carmarthen, says she was incredulous when the letter arrived —…
HONOURS: ‘An incredible honour’ — MBE for the council chief now leading the Afan Valley’s £20m revival
Karen Jones spent her career in public service, rising to chief executive of Neath Port Talbot Council — and weeks…
SWANSEA CITY: MBE for ‘Welsh Wizard’ Cliff Jones — one of the game’s true greats at 91
The Swansea-born winger who lit up the 1958 World Cup and won a clutch of trophies with Tottenham has been…
PENLLERGAER: 50 years, 20,000 animals — BEM for the woman at the heart of Llys Nini
Carole Stevens joined Swansea's animal rescue world as a teenager and never left. Half a century on — and 20,000…
SWANSEA: ‘A labour of love’ — the BEM for the man who’s kept the city’s jazz playing for 50 years
Dave Cottle first walked into Swansea Jazz Club as a teenager in 1975. Half a century on — having programmed…
HONOURS: The Swansea professor changing how we talk about suicide — from the Senedd to EastEnders
Prof Ann John's research has reshaped national policy, frontline practice and even how soaps portray mental health. Now the Swansea…
HONOURS: The MBE Swansea legend RFD knew about — but couldn’t tell anyone — before he died
Robert Francis-Davies received word of his MBE by letter in his final days — but honours rules meant he could…
KING’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS: The Swansea Bay and Carmarthenshire names on this year’s list
An MBE received days before his death for a Swansea legend, a hospice nurse, a suicide prevention pioneer, half a…
98-year-old Llanelli veteran awarded British Empire Medal
Idwal Davies said the award for his services to veterans and to the community "came out of the blue".