A team of British divers who helped save a junior football team stranded in a flooded cave in Thailand were awarded in Britain’s traditional New Year Honors alongside former supermodel Twiggy and Monty Python’s Michael Palin. Stanton had already been made an MBE in 2012 for his rescue services. Fellow divers Christopher Jewell and Jason Mallinson receive the Queen’s Gallantry Medal, while Joshua Bratchley, Connor Roe and Vernon Unsworth were decorated with MBEs. Pullman, the creator of the hugely successful “His Dark Materials” trilogy, receives a knighthood for services to literature. Brexiteer wins knighthoodPalin, 75, becomes the first of Monty Python’s revered comedy cast to receive a knighthood.

Source: Egypt Independent December 29, 2018 14:03 UTC