Adrian Lester has been honoured by top theatre critics, two weeks after being made an OBE in the New Year's Honours list.
The pair were honoured among the top 10 achievers in the first year class - and had spent a month working together on an assignment.
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The players will be honoured with an open-top bus parade through Swansea and a civic reception on Tuesday.
Gongs all round in the Queen's birthday honours list for top corporates and scientists involved in the most controversial environment issues.
Among other honours, the historian and curator Sir Roy Strong is made a companion of honour, the top accolade, for services to culture.
Oklamhoma City point guard Westbrook, 26, hit 41 points to claim Most Valuable Player honours, with LeBron James top-scoring for East with 30 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Although the policy research awards have no money attached, they honour the contributions of top Canadian academics, journalists, and institutions.
This monumental honour has topped it off and I couldn't ask for anything more".
Whirlaway also won the three-year-old honours, which made it only the second time that a leading two-year-old had also captured top honours the following year.
In 1933 he gained top honours in the first All-Union Musicians Contest.
