All those honoured
Jill Halfpenny (actress/entertainer)
Stephen Miller (Paralympian)
Kathryn Tickell (composer/musician)
Robson Green (actor/entertainer)
Sister Winifred Laver (missionary)
Prof Sir John Burn (genetics researcher)
Cardinal Basil Hume
Prof Peter W Higgs (particle physicist)
Mark Knopfler (musician)
Brendan Foster (long-distance runner/founder of the Great North Run)
Guy Readman (businessman)
Lindisfarne (band)
Alan Shearer (footballer/presenter)
Alderman Edward Cowen JP (Ned)
Ant & Dec (TV presenters)
Dame Margaret Barbour (businesswoman and philanthropist)
David Almond (author)
Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais (writers)
Doreen ‘Granny’ Jardine (community campaigner)
Jackie Milburn (footballer)
Julia Darling (writer)
Ruth Dodds (author/campaigner)
Sir Bobby Robson (football manager / founder of the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation)
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen (photographer)
Sting (rock star)
Mo Mowlam MP (politican)
Lance Corporal Kenneth Rowe
Brendan Healy (comedian / entertainer)
Alison Kay (founder of The People’s Kitchen)
John Grundy (historian/author/ television presenter)
Mike Neville (television presenter)
Tim Healy (actor)
Brian Johnson (singer / songwriter)