New Year's Honours - Round-up

Mr Kruger, of Hill Brow Close, Hove, established the Flamingo jazz club in Soho, London, where he gave breaks to acts including Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie and the Moody Blues.

He organised a 20-date tour of Europe for Billie Holiday and was later made an honourary US citizen for his work in the music business.

Ted Chandler, a long-serving member of Middleton Parish Council and Arun District Council, also becomes an MBE for his services to Bognor.

Mr Chandler, 80, is in his 32nd year serving with the parish council and retired from the district council last year after 25 years as a member.

He said: "The award came out of the blue. But I could not have done it without my wife Rita and also all the members of the committees I have been involved with over the years."

Sir George Christie celebrated a family tradition in being made a Companion of Honour.

His father, the late John Christie, was also made a Companion for his work in founding Glyndebourne opera house.

Sir George, who is president of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, was going out for lunch with his wife, Lady Mary, when news of the honour was confirmed.

The latest honour for Sir George, 64, is seen as recognition of the realisation of his dream to rejuvenate Glyndebourne as a world centre of operatic excellence.

Sheila Wallis, head of Davison High School for Girls in Worthing is made a Dame for services to education.

Mrs Wallis, who lives in Arundel, helped pioneer the school's bid for technology college status which it won in 1998.

It consistently receives praise from Ofsted inspectors.

Geoffrey Spence, 81, is made an MBE for services to the War Pensions Committee in Sussex.

As a voluntary member of the organisation, he dedicated 27 years to looking after the welfare of war pensioners. Mr Spence, of Brighton, said: "I was surprised at the news, as things like that don't happen in my life. It is a great honour."

His work involved helping people get the pensions they were entitled to.

John Williams, who is made an MBE, has dealt with tornados, flooding, the millennium and the threat of bioterrorism.

But as county emergency planning officer at West Sussex County Council, dealing with disaster is all in a day's work.

Mr Williams, 56, who lives with his partner Barbara Laverty in Burgess Hill and has four grown-up children, said: "My proudest moment was our response to the Selsey Tornado in 1988. Within minutes of it hitting the town we were on the scene. We opened up a shelter, found people temporary accommodation and warned them against employing cowboy builders.

"People need to be reassured in a crisis. It is a team effort but I get such a sense of satisfaction from helping people."

Anna Carlisle-Haynes, a lecturer in dance at Lewes Tertiary College, is made an MBE along with Diane Churchill from Hove, for her work with holidays for disabled children in Ashdown Forest.

Security guard Charles Markwick, who lives in Crawley, becomes an MBE for his service to the Crown Prosecution Service.

For service to Hastings Sea Cadet Corps, Lieutenant Commander Arthur Keyte, of St Leonards, is made an MBE.

Former music teacher Heather Cowl also becomes an MBE after 26 years as head of music at Dorothy Stringer School, Brighton.

Musicians from around the world turned out for her farewell concert in July at the city's Clarendon Centre.

Past and recent pupils of Miss Cowl, who spent 43 years as a teacher, joined together for the concert.

Farmer John McCutchan has been a volunteer with the Eastbourne Samaritans for 32 years and helped set up the Hailsham Citizen's Advice Bureau in 1987.

On becoming an MBE today, Mr McCutchan, 65, of Bates Green Farm in Arlington, said: "I am most proud of setting up the Citizen's Advice Bureau. When it first opened it had one member of staff. But since then it has grown and grown and now has eight people working there. It provides a vital service."

He was also involved in starting a debt advice telephone line in 1994, which now operates nationally, and Hailsham mediation service in 1999.

Mr McCutchan has raised thousands of pounds for charity by organising the annual Arlington Bluebell walk in Beatons Wood which celebrates its 30th anniversary next year.

Timothy Murray, of Bexhill, is made an MBE for his services to the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, where he is a senior executive officer.

Director general of Gardenex Amanda Barrett, from Wadhurst, also becomes an MBE for her services to export along with Dorothy Slyfield, of Heathfield, who is honoured for her work with the Guide Association's UK training and activity centres.

Edward Workman becomes an MBE for helping the community in Burwash, where he lives.

Robert Eagle, from Horsham, who is head of the National Asylum Support Service at the Home Office, is made a CBE, as is David Smith, of Ringmer, former head of the development policy department at the Department for International Development.

Richard Wheeler, from Worthing, also becomes a CBE for his work as director of information management at the Department of Trade and Industry.

Professor Margaret Boden, dean of social sciences at the University of Sussex, becomes an OBE.

She was nominated for the Woman of the Year Award in 1986, alongside Body Shop founder Anita Roddick and actress Judy Cornwell, both from Sussex.

She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy and receives the honour for services to cognitive science.

Divorced with two children, Prof Boden, 64, joined Sussex University in 1965 and specialises in artificial intelligence, including computers.

Andrew Parker, chairman of the British Egg Industry Council, who lives in Herstmonceux, becomes an OBE, as does Michael Parker, from Haywards Heath, for services to the Energy Advisory Panel, and Peter Vallance, from Haywards Heath, for his work at the Home Office.

Artist Daphne Todd is made an OBE for her services to art.

Ms Todd, 54, of Mayfield, is president of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Her works have included portraits of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and veteran Sussex comedian Spike Milligan.