. mini—budget meanwhile, dame shirley bassey. ni—budget meanwhile, dame shirley bassey . has been given shirley bassey. has been given the highest award in the king's new year honours list. the legendary singer is 64th living member of the order of the companions of honour. in recognition of her services to music, it's limited to 65 members at any one time. dame shirley has sold 135 million records worldwide , said records worldwide, said glastonbury festival founder michael eavis and wetherspoons . michael eavis and wetherspoons. boss tim martin are among those knighted . and there are knighted. and there are damehoods for author. knighted. and there are damehoods for author . jilly damehoods for author. jilly cooper and mp siobhan mcdonagh and the british actor tom wilkinson has died . born into a wilkinson has died. born into a farming family in yorkshire, he won acclaim for his role in the classic comedy the full monty. he was nominated for an academy award twice, first for the drama in the bedroom in 2001, and again in two th

dame shirley bassey , jilly cooper, shirley bassey, jilly cooper, people outside the world, someone i'mnfield. >> he had an incredible rugby >> so he had an incredible rugby league career . there's a bit of league career. there's a bit of a southern bias, isn't so a southern bias, isn't there? so the usually the focus is usually on rugby union. rugby man union. i'm a rugby union man myself did brilliant myself but he did brilliant things for great britain as a league . then coached, league player. then he coached, helped, coached england to the point a world cup rugby union point of a world cup rugby union final. but most important, he has work on has done incredible work on pubuchy has done incredible work on publicity for mnd and there's some other great names. >> we're going to get back to you later in the show, but we need to move on to exclusive need to move on to an exclusive poll, from people's polling need to move on to an exclusive polgb from people's polling need to move on to an exclusive polgb news,| people's polling need to move on to an exclusive polgb news, which .e's pol

meanwhile dame shirley bassey has been given the highest award in the king's new year's honours list.has become the 64th living member of the order of the companions of honour in recognition of her services to music . she recognition of her services to music. she sold recognition of her services to music . she sold 135 recognition of her services to music. she sold 135 million records worldwide . now that list records worldwide. now that list is limited to 65 members at any one time. so very exclusive . one time. so very exclusive. glastonbury festival founder michael eavis and the wetherspoons boss tim martin are amongst those to be knighted, and there are damehoods for author jilly cooper and mp siobhan mcdonagh . household siobhan mcdonagh. household bills are set to rise in the new year despite record levels of consumer debt . the energy consumer debt. the energy regulator's price cap will be increased by 5% from monday, adding around £94 to the average bill of gem says the rise is dnven bill of gem says the rise is driven by the cost of wholesale gas, which is particularly being

now someone who has performed at glastonbury is dame shirley bassey — and she's got an honour too.ur. i think there is only 65 people that can possibly get it, and she has got one of them. she drew an absolutely massive crowd when she played, she did the laden spot on a sunday afternoon and she really put on afternoon and she really put on a hell of a show as well. —— legends spot. in hundred and 35 million records sold. i think she has earned this title. —— 135 million. any other entertainment names spring out to you from the list? a couple of others from my radio two days, tony blatt work and —— tony blackwood and steve wright. amelia clark as well from game of thrones who has done a lot of work with brain injury charities, that is an important one to highlight. matt charlton, thank you for joining us. as well as the new year honours list, britain's shortest—serving prime minister, liz truss, has also released her resignation honours list, more than a year after her 49 days in office. it includes conservative party donors and special advisors to ministers. the former prime minist

it's good to see, um, some of the upgrades, like dame shirley bassey. honoured some of the upgrades, e sialwaysassey. honoured some of the upgrades, like dame sialways incredible honoured some of the upgrades, like dame sialways incredible . honoured some of the upgrades, like dame sialways incredible . i mean,ed is always incredible. i mean, what she's in 70 what she's achieved in her 70 year career, always is, you year career, it always is, you know, should be honoured and just and said she's just revered. and she said she's truly humble to that, even though, know, has been though, you know, she has been honoured she's now honoured previously, she's now been made a companion of honour in year's honours list. in the new year's honours list. um, i as well as that, um, but i think as well as that, it's , it's see in the it's, it's great to see in the sporting category to have the, the, the lionesses recognise and i think it's right that that there were three in particular who have been recognised for their contribution because they've made such a difference to so many young women. and

you had dame shirley bassey, who becomes a companion of the order.f the order. the brilliant jilly cooper i love her, she becomes a dame for her services to literature and charity . i can remember being charity. i can remember being addicted to her books at school. sir ridley scott becomes a knight grand cross and mary earps, who's cleaning up this yeah earps, who's cleaning up this year. she also gets an honour. but much of the awards appears to be rewards for failure because on the list, the x passport office boss abby tierney, who carried on working partly from home despite a 700,000 processing backlog . 700,000 processing backlog. she's been given a companion of the order of the bath. the second highest honour to damehood . she was recognised for damehood. she was recognised for pubuc damehood. she was recognised for public service despite presiding over failure , which meant that over failure, which meant that thousands had holiday plans ruined. she was also responsible for processing asylum applications , which at the time applications, which a

october after 49 days amid economic turmoil sparked by her so—called mini—budget meanwhile dame shirley bassey been given the highest award in the king's new year honours list. the legendary singer is the 64th living member of the order of the companions of honour. in recognition of her services to music, it's limited to 65 members at any one time. dame shirley has sold 135 million records worldwide . glastonbury records worldwide. glastonbury festival founder michael eavis and wetherspoons boss tim martin are among those knighted, and there are damehoods for author jilly cooper and mp siobhan mcdonagh and the british actor tom wilkinson has died . born tom wilkinson has died. born into a farming family in yorkshire, he won fans for his role in the classic comedy the full monty . he was nominated for full monty. he was nominated for an academy award twice and he took home a golden globe in 2009 for his portrayal of benjamin franklin in hbo's acclaimed miniseries john adams. singer will young has paid tribute to him as a british acting royalty . him as a british acting royalty. tom wilkinson wa