Head of MI5 Ken McCallum and artist Barbara Rae are among the highest honours awarded to Scots in this year's New Year Honours list. Other notable recipients include broadcaster Jackie Bird, former footballer Alan Hansen, and Olympian Duncan Scott.
Head of MI5 Ken McCallum has been knighted and artist Barbara Rae has been made a dame in some of the highest honours awarded to Scots in this year's New Year Honours list.
He led the strategic response to the 2017 terrorist attacks in Manchester and London and to the attempted assassination of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury 2018. Her work has been shown around the world in both group and solo exhibitions, including at venues in Chicago, New York, Washington, Santa Fe, Oslo, Hong Kong, Dublin and Belfast.
She said she was "lost for words" after being told of being awarded a damehood for services to art and said it is unlikely to change her work and she will still be putting on her "paint-splattered overalls" to create in her studio each day. Journalist Jackie Bird, who was the face of BBC Scotland News for three decades, is being recognised for her services to broadcasting and charities.
He was chairman of Haemophilia Scotland for 12 years and was described as the "driving force" behind its representation at the Infected Blood Inquiry and the prior Penrose Inquiry in Scotland.
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