felt in other sectors are also affecting farming.

Mr Carlton said he had been shocked but felt "extremely privileged" to be given the honour for services to children, young people and families.He added: "I'm still in shock really, I just never expected that such a thing could happen. It's a huge honour and I feel very humbled to receive it."

Christopher Maxwell, 61, from York, has been appointed MBE for services to public protection, reducing reoffending and rehabilitation.He said: "I effectively lead and run a scheme which places people who come out of prison into temporary accommodation in the hope that it will give them some stability, so that they can find work."I feel very humbled to be put forward. I'm proud they feel the work I've done is worthy enough to be recognised. I suppose I also feel a sense of 'why me?' because a lot of my colleagues work hard every day to do the job and make difficult decisions.

"Any one of them could have equally been put forward."A derelict guardroom on a disused RAF base is to be transformed into a community centre for a growing village.

The building has not been used since the armed services left RAF Upwood in Cambridgeshire.

The parish council said the centre would "become the heart" of the village of Bury.Its wildly combustible songs were the perfect material for Jules Buckley’s orchestra, who ramped up the album's gothic overtones with harpsichords, lutes and long crescendos of percussion.

Kiss With A Fist became a sort of witchy hoedown, Blinding opened with a sinister cacophony of whispered incantations, and You Got The Love made ample use of the Royal Albert Hall's "Voice of Jupiter" pipe organ.Enhancing the eerie mood, the venue was bathed in blood-red lights throughout the concert, with Florence in a flowing claret dress, her sleeves swaying in time to the music.

The audience got into the mood, too, wearing pre-Raphaelite dresses, Toreodor jackets, crowns of flowers and, in one case, dressing head-to-toe in fairy lights.It was the perfect marriage of material and setting. "Renaissance meets rock," as Radio 3 presenter Georgia Mann put it.