• Essex cricketer Alastair Cook is made an MBE for services to cricket. Cook, 26, is one of England's Ashes-winning cricketers to be honoured.

    He was player of the series.

    Gloucester-born Cook, 26, scored 766 runs, the second highest total by an England batsman in any Ashes series, and during the fifth Test in Sydney became the second youngest player to reach a career total of 5,000 runs.

  • Richard Boyd, chief executive of Disability Essex, is made an OBE in the Queen's birthday honours list.

    Mr Boyd, a former Essex county councillor and current deputy lieutenant of Essex, is the driving force behind the new disability support centre in Rochford

    • Clive Collins, a cartoonist and illustrator from Benfleet is made an MBE for services to art.
    • Foster carers Barbara Hobbs-Hurrell and Maurice Hobbs-Hurrell, from Shoebury, are both made MBEs for services to families.
    • Malachy O'Sullivan, a champion fundraiser for Southend Hospital, is made an MBE for services to the community.