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    'Proud and humbled' Dame Barbara Windsor leads New Year's Honours list

    Veteran actress Barbara Windsor has said she is “so very honoured, proud and extremely humbled” to be awarded a damehood in the New Year’s Honours. Celebrated thespian Sian Phillips (below, left) is also made a dame, while Imelda Staunton (below, right) receives a CBE, and actors David Oyelowo (below, centre) and James Nesbitt (above) get OBEs. Sporting stars are also well represented, with a knighthood for champion jockey Tony McCoy, former motorsports star John Surtees and footballers Denis