COMMUNITY stalwart, charity fundraiser and all-round good egg, Charlie Back, has been made an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

Mr Back, 74, of Bishops Lydeard, has supported a wide range of worthy causes over the years and still works as a street pastor in Taunton.

He built Bishops Lydeard's scout hut in the 1970s, worked at the church centre and both the football and cricket clubs and restored the village's historic Old Mill.

Together with his wife Yvonne, the couple have donated more than £60,000 to charity from visitor takings at the mill.

He said helping people was part of the ethos of being a Christian and said none of it would have been possible without support from Yvonne and his late wife Joan.

q AN Exmoor resident has been appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for his work as UK national hydrographer.

CBE Rear Admiral Ian Moncrieff, 55, is responsible for advising and representing the MoD and the Government at the highest level on all maritime national and international bodies to ensure safety at sea through hydrography and navigational charting.

He was born in Bolton and now lives on Exmoor with his wife Marion.

The couple have two children, Andrew, a politics graduate who is training to be an Army officer at Sandhurst and James, who is studying politics at the University of Newcastle and who has also passed his Army Commissions Board.

Mr Moncrieff became the UK National Hydrographer and Deputy Chief Executive of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) in Taunton at the end of 2006.