IT was a high five for Wyedean in the Queen’s Birthday honours – with a CBE, three MBEs and a BEM.

Tim Hely-Hutchinson, 65, from Newland was made a CBE for services to publishing and literature, having only just been awarded the Légion d’Honneur by France for Anglo-French services.

David Rogers from Monmouthshire, chief executive of Copper Horse Ltd, received an MBE for services to cyber security, matched by Professor Lynne Boddy of Chepstow, an expert in fungi, for services to mycology and public engagement in science.

Former district councillor for Tibberton, Jane Horne, was another MBE – for voluntary and charitable services to the Forest community – while fellow Newent resident, town councillor and former mayor Roger Beard, was awarded a BEM for services to the local community.

Mrs Horne, 84, who retired as a Conservative councillor in May after 16 years, said: “I am definitely looking forward to receiving my MBE at Buckingham Palace. It will be my fifth formal visit.

"I was very surprised to have been nominated. I have volunteered at something or other all of my life including many projects overseas, with little recognition.

"In the Forest of Dean, I’ve supported the Children’s Opportunity Centre, which provides services and support to youngsters with special needs from birth to age seven, the Forest Read Easy Deal which supports a team of volunteer coaches who help people who fall through the net to improve their reading and writing skills, plus both the Dilke Memorial and Lydney and District hospitals and Great Oaks Hospice.

"As chairman of the district authority, for four years I organised a number of events to raise money for these charitable concerns.

"But now I am retired from the council I am spending more time with the local older generation and looking after their needs as well as all the rescued animals that reside with me.

"I am still fundraising for the bronze statue of Valegro, the horse ridden by British Olympic dressage champion Charlotte Dujardin, to be placed in the centre of Newent.

“But I would like to extend my thanks to everybody in the district for helping me achieve my goals and hope that the Forest of Dean is protected and looked after in the future."

Cllr Beard, 77, was awarded a BEM for going above and beyond his council duties to benefit the Newent community, helping provide much needed and appreciated community resources, particularly in support of disadvantaged youngsters.

In 1991, he began 25 years of fundraising for Kathleen House, a home for disabled young people, and was also the director and trustee of the Newent Initiative Trust for some 15 years, an organisation that delivers weekly sessions for a local youth club, including a support group for young carers and community projects.

He was also involved with the Newent Arboretum and the raising of £1.3m for town centre improvement works, and served as director and trustee of Sheppard House, a day centre for the elderly and disabled offering meals, socialising, daily activities, exercises, outings and transport for those who might otherwise be isolated.

As a town councillor, he is still campaigning to make Newent a dementia friendly place to shop, and is working with the police and council to fund and install better CCTV coverage in the town.

New CBE, Eton and Oxford-educated Tim Hely-Hutchinson, was chief executive of publishing firm Hachette UK from 2004 to 2017.

As a university student he edited the Oxford magazine Isis before going on to work for Macmillan Publishers in Britain and Australia.

He then worked for Robert Maxwell as managing director of Macdonald Futura in 1982 before co-founding Headline Publishing Group, which was voted publisher of the year in 1993.

Having been a director of WH Smith and chairman of WH Smith News, he engineered the sale of WH Smith’s publishing business to Hachette Livre in 2004, staying on to run Hachette UK, which became Britain’s biggest publisher when it acquired Little, Brown in 2006.

In April, he was awarded the Légion d’Honneur for his promotion of Anglo-French relations, and his “committed dissemination of international literature”.

New MBE David Rogers co-founded mobile and internet security company Copper Horse and is the author of the UK’s Code of Practice for Consumer IoT (Internet of Things) Security.

The Code, published last year, was developed as part of the ‘Secure by Design’ initiative in response to the increasing importance of cyber security in the home brought about by the exponential growth of IoT technologies.

David worked closely with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and the National Cyber Security Centre, as well as leading manufacturers, industry associations and the security research community to create the code.

He also chairs the mobile industry’s GSMA Fraud and Security Group and teaches part-time at the University of Oxford and as a Visiting Professor in Cyber Security and Digital Forensics at York St John University.

He said: “There are many talented and passionate individuals involved in cyber security around the globe.. all collectively working to highlight insecurity and trying to improve technology around IoT.

“My role in securing technology is only a tiny part of that overall effort. I am delighted and honoured to be awarded this MBE for services to cyber security.”

Fellow MBE Professor Boddy, who works at Cardiff University, is a specialist on the ecology of wood decomposition and the vital role of fungi in ecosystems, and also promotes popular interest in science.

She was part of a science opera performed at the Green Man Festival in Powys in 2017, which included her research into the Wood-Wide Web, the process by which trees and plants share information with each other.

Last year she was awarded the Learned Society of Wales Frances Hoggan Medal.