Four Islanders Receive Platinum Jubilee Birthday Honours

Advocate Peter Harwood, Jack Honeybill, Marlene Place and Tina Pipet all receive awards from Her Majesty the Queen in her Platinum Jubilee Year.

Advocate Peter Harwood has been given an OBE.

In his professional career he has been a partner of a local law firm, the chair of the Guernsey Financial Services Commission and a States deputy and Chief Minister.

His voluntary work includes setting up the support group Carers Guernsey, is a founder trustee of Help a Guernsey Child and chair of Guernsey Victim Support and Witness Service.

Jack Honeybill has been made an MBE.

He was a senior banker for many years and also a States deputy, but he's best known as being the chair of the Friends of Les Bourgs Hospice.

He held this position for more than 20 years and, during this time, he launched the million pound Hospice Lottery and ran three of them. He says getting to know islanders was key in achieving the fundraising targets:

"You have to make sure that you network properly and you get people on your side who will buy tickets, buy raffle tickets, will attend functions, occasionally will give money, or will then introduce you to someone who might give you more money, when you're trying to achieve fairly high goals."

Jack Honeybill has dedicated a lot of his time to St Peter Port, as the head of the Town Centre Partnership and the organiser of the Guernsey Street Festival. Now, he's concentrating on fundraising again, this time for the Little Chapel Foundation:

"I hope to continue to try and raise money for causes I'm involved with and obviously I've now got a major challenge with the Little Chapel. But already people are starting to say 'oh that's great, we'll help you with this.' And doors are opening, to hopefully let me achieve the objective."

When asked about his MBE, Jack Honeybill says it came completely out of the blue: 

"To be honest an emotional rollercoaster. I was absolutely stunned. I'm so humbled."

Marlene Place has been given a British Empire Medal (BEM).

She was an orthopaedic nurse in the UK before moving to the St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem.

Her voluntary work has been dedicated to helping military veterans in Guernsey.

She was head of the Guernsey Cheshire Home for more than 20 years and has set up various initiatives to look after the physical and mental health of former service men and women and offer them support networks.

Guernsey's Lieutenant Governor, Richard Cripwell, says those awarded the Queen's birthday honours have worked selflessly for the community:

"I’m delighted that three outstanding islanders have been recognised with State awards in this particularly significant year. Advocate Peter Harwood, Jack Honeybill and Mrs Marlene Place have each worked tirelessly to improve and enrich life here in Guernsey and for that we owe them a debt of thanks."

The fourth award, an MVO, has been given to a long-serving member of Government House:

"I’m also very pleased to see that Mrs Tina Pipet has been made a Member of the Royal Victorian Order. She has recently retired after serving the Crown as the PA to four Lieutenant-Governors over a period of almost 16 years, which has been recognised through this personal award from the Sovereign."