services to Families and Carers of the Mentally Ill in Portsmouth. Melba Ethel, Mrs. Pitt. For services to Disabled Young People and to the community in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Andrew Pollock. For public service. Trevor Poxon, Assistant Chief Examiner, Institute of Advanced Motorists. For services to Road Safety. Jennifer Linda, Mrs. Poyner. For services to the Disability Access Charter. Robert Preston. For services to South Lanarkshire College. Feliks Puczylowski. For services to Polish ex-Servicemen and Women. Ronald Purbrick. For services to Foster Care in Lambeth, London. Sheila Purbrick. For services to Foster Care in Lambeth, London. John Edward Rackham, T.D., President, St Mary’s Centre. For services to the community in Lichfield, Staffordshire. Mary Anthea, Mrs.Rackham, Governor, Sidegate Primary School, Ipswich. For services to Education. Elizabeth Mackie Dickson, Mrs. Rae. For services to Nursing. Inthirasingam Rajah, lately Senior Audit Assistant, Oxfordshire County Council. Shanthi Kumar Rasaratnam, Programme Manager, United Utilities. For services to the Water Industry. Samuel Brian Rea, J.P. For services to the Community. Sarah Agnes, Mrs. Rea, Caretaker, Moorfields Primary School, Ballymena. For services to Education. Susan Margaret Read, Fellow, Royal College of Nursing. For services to Innovation and Health Care. Alan Reid, Chairman. For services to Kaleidoscope Youth Club, Blackburn, Lancashire. Hugh Watt Reid, lately Head, Virology Division, Moredun Research Institute. For services to Animal Health and Disease Control. Mary Elizabeth, Mrs. Reid. For services to Housing and the Tenants’ Movement. William Henderson Renton, Project Controls Manager, BAE Systems Marine Ltd. For services to the Defence Industry. Christine, Mrs.Richardson, lately Midwifery Sister and Supervisor of Midwives, Borders General Hospital. For services to Nursing and Midwifery. Kevin John Richmond, Lecturer, Abingdon and Witney College, Oxfordshire. For services to Further Education. Philip Charles Riggs. For services to the community in Stokeinteignhead, Devon. James Castles Rippey. For services to the Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus. John Ritchie. For services to Conservation and the National Trust. Robert Roberts. For services to the community in Newham, East London. Gillian, Mrs. Robertson. For services to Girlguiding in Scotland. Veronica, Mrs. Rodden, Chair, North Glasgow Community Forum. For services to the Community. George Ross, lately Secretary and Treasurer, St Andrews Association, Aberdeen. For services to the St Andrews Ambulance Association. Carole Ann, Mrs. Round, Local Housing Manager, Frankley Estate, Birmingham. For services to Local Government and Housing in Birmingham. Donald Cyril Wesley Rouse. For services to the community in Bampton, Oxfordshire. Elizabeth Jane, Mrs. Rowe.