Actor Peter Sallis – hapless Norman Clegg in Last of the Summer Wine – was collecting his OBE for services to drama from the Queen at Buckingham Palace today.

Sallis, 86, is also known to millions as the voice of Wallace in the hit animation films of Wallace and Gromit.

Bill Pertwee, best known as air raid warden Hodges in Dad’s Army, was receiving an MBE.