community. Joan Patricia Bury Henderson-Begg, lately Chairman, Sharnbrook House Residential Club WRVS. For services to the community. Kenneth William Bell, Regional Treasurer, Yorkshire and Humberside Energy Management Groups. For services to Energy Efficiency. Frank Walter Bennett, Chairman, Royal Air Forces Association, Eastern Area. Robert Frederick Bennett, lately Police Constable, British Transport Police. For services to Rail Transport. David Michael Bird, Senior Executive Officer, Royal Courts of Justice, Lord Chancellor's Department. Rita Bird, Head Housemaid, House of Lords. Elaine Lilian Birtwistle, Local Officer 2, Department of Social Security. Hazel Patricia Bishop. For services to The Pony Club. Joan Bishop, lately Administrative Officer, Department for Education and Employment. John William Bishop, Operational Fire Officer and Non-Operational Station Officer, London Fire and Civil Defence Authority. For services to the Fire Service. Alexander Blair, lately Vice-Chairman, Kelso Community Council. For services to the community in Roxburghshire. Brian Robert Blake. For services to VE Day Commemorations. Hazel Boardman, HIV Prevention Co-ordinator, Blackpool, Lancashire. For services to Health Care. Alan David Boland, Manager, Health and Safety, British Steel. For services to Health and Safety in the Steel Industry. Elizabeth Margaret Bomphray, Divisional Public Relations Manager, WRVS Scotland. For services to the community. Annette Laraine Booth. For services to the community in Froyle, Hampshire. Maureen Anne Booth, Senior Scientist, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. For services to Science. Margaret Rennie Webb-Bowen. For services to the WRVS in Edinburgh. Sarah Bardsley Bracher. For services to the Friends of Kent Churches. Susan Brailsford. For charitable services to the community in Nottinghamshire. Paul Thomas Clifford Brenham. For services to Scouting. Gladys Briggs, Chairman, Management Committee, Sea Cadet Corps, Keighley. Lincoln Patrick Briggs, Retail Manager's Assistant, Thames Trains, British Railways. For services to the Railway Industry. Raymond Philip Briggs. For services to Social Work in Leicestershire. Ernest Charles (Gus) Britton, Researcher, Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport. Flora Paris Brodie, lately Charge Nurse, Acute Medical Ward, St John's Hospital, Livingston, West Lothian. For services to Health Care. Iris Margaret Brookes, Honorary Secretary, Cannock and Burntwood Branch, Royal National Lifeboat Institution. For services to the RNLI and to the local community. William Brown. For services to Fisheries Management and Conservation in Scotland. Oriel Elizabeth Brownjohn, Personal Secretary, Ministry of Defence. Beryl Simpson Bruce, Support Grade II, Her Majesty's Prison Featherstone. Stephen Anthony Brunt. For services to Sport for People with Disabilities. Norman Cuthbert Bryning. For services to the community in Northallerton, North Yorkshire.