Former Blackburn coroner Andre Rebello picked up his OBE for “services to the administration of justice”.

The 52-year-old, who lives in Mellor, is a former chairman of the Salford Roman Catholic Diocesan Lourdes Hospitalite Committee, a former governor of Oakhill College, Whalley, and a governor of St Mary’s Sixth Form College, Blackburn.

He said: “It is very unexpected as coroners do not generally get an OBE.”