Film Star Zeta Jones Becomes A CBE

Writer Ronald Harwood, who won 2003's best adapted screenplay Oscar for The Pianist, receives a knighthood. Veteran Coronation Street stars Eileen Derbyshire and Barbara Knox gain MBEs in the soap's 50th anniversary year. Derbyshire, who plays Emily Bishop, made her first appearance in 1961, while Knox (Rita Sullivan) has been a regular since 1972.  Knox, 76, said she was "absolutely shocked and delighted at the same moment" to be recognised.

Actress Anne Reid, who played Ken Barlow's first wife Valerie in the show during the 1960s, is also appointed an MBE. She is also known for her roles in Victoria Wood sitcom Dinnerladies, and picked up a Bafta nomination for playing a woman drawn into a relationship with a much younger man in The Mother.