"A return to normal is good news, " said Kate Warne, investment strategist with Edward Jones.

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Artists Gillian Wearing and Edward De Waal received OBEs while novelist Kate Atkinson, whose book Case Histories has been adapted for BBC One, was made an MBE.

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