New Year’s Honours List in full: part two (Daily Telegraph)

Below is a full list of the Queen’s New Year’s Honours:

Queens of the small screen (Independent)

The very first actor to play our Queen on film was an American cross-dresser. Steven Walden was a member of a San Francisco transvestite theatre troupe, the Cockettes, who, in 1971, made Tricia’s Wedding – a spoof of the White House wedding of Tricia Nixon, the eldest daughter of the then American president, Richard Nixon. In this cult sexploiter, Eartha Kitt puts LSD in the punch bowl, the …

The reign of royalty ends; Audrionna Pullins to relinquish crown (The Daily Sentinel)

POMEROY — For Audrionna Renae Pullins, the 2008 Meigs County Junior Fair Queen, it’s been a busy year of traveling around the state representing her home county at various fairs and festivals. But…

Queen’s Birthday Honours list (EveningTimes Online)

Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran. Professor and head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and president, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. For services to medicine.

Thyme to sow: With a little forward planning, you can grow every herb going (Independent)

Furnishing a herb garden is very much like furnishing a house. You need the big, permanent pieces of furniture, but you also need a few more evanescent things to add variety. Jekka McVicar, Queen of the Herbs, has put together an excellent Herb Starter Kit for gardeners who need guidance. She includes shrubby stalwarts such as ‘Hidcote’ lavender, rosemary, purple sage and the pretty little …