KEY figures involved in the Ryder Cup were among Gwent people awarded in the Queen's birthday honours list this year.
Rob Holt, chief executive of the 2010 Ryder Cup, receives an OBE while the Celtic Manor's golf courses director and head greenkeeper Jim McKenzie is made an MBE.
Dr Biku Ghosh, a surgeon at Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny, got an OBE for his work promoting health projects in Ethiopia.
Supt Simon Deacy of Gwent Police was given an OBE for his work leading the No Witness No Justice project supporting victims of crime and witnesses.
There was also an OBE for Dr Stephen Marsh-Smith, director of the Wye and Usk Foundation.
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