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Honours winners take a bow
THE Town Hall’s departing anti-social behaviour guru Ian Walker rejected his ‘Mr Asbo’ tag as he was honoured by Camden Mayor Jill Fraser for winning an MBE.
At a reception for 12 of the borough’s honours-winning luminaries, Mr Walker, who has overseen Camden’s record-breaking Asbo campaign in King’s Cross and Camden Town, said his team had put a network of services and support in place to help the most vulnerable.
He said: “A lot of people are now in hostels who would otherwise still be on the streets. I have also done a lot of work with the Bangladeshi community. I just want to say that I’m not just Mr Asbo.”
Also honoured were TV presenter and Childline director Esther Rantzen, awarded a CBE for services to children and young people, Elena Salvoni MBE, whose management of Elena’s L’Etoile restaurant in Charlotte Street is only the latest chapter in a 60-year career in the West End, and William Kilminster MBE, paramedic hero of the Russell Square bombings.
Others honoured were architect John Miller CBE, homeless charity director Brian Pomeroy CBE, university governor Richard Coldwell CBE, National Deaf Children’s Society chief executive Susan Daniels OBE, Persian scholar at the British Museum John Curtis OBE, Great Ormond Street Hospital School head Yvonne Hill MBE, founder president of the Ballet Association David Drew MBE and children’s nutrition expert Annabel Karmel MBE.
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