ALWAYS anxious to follow the example of the great and good, your columnist is issuing an honours' list. It will be different from David Cameron’s because all my nominations thoroughly deserve them.

First award goes to Louise Findlay-Wilson of the Langford cricket club. She has done much for women’s cricket in the Cotswold District Cricket Association, being the driving force behind the successful women’s league.

Leaving the eastern extremity of our area we stop at Lechlade. Alan Heath is the next nominee. His reports on Lechlade’s games are fair and eminently readable but he does so much more at the club and beyond, being especially active with youth cricket.

Our journey moves further west with a stop at Fairford. It will surprise no-one within the club that Dave Taylor is the next one honoured. His services to the town’s cricket club are monumental.

Continuing further west we stop at Poulton to consider the services to Cotswold sport made by David Dunn. They have been many and varied and I am certain there is much more to come. David was recommended by a Cirencester rugby fan who spoke highly of his performances for the town club.

Continuing our journey we pause outside the Red Lion at Ampney St Mary, a place of fond memories but also some hopes. Tony Truman could be honoured for so many reasons but this time it is for bashing the bookmaking fraternity. Anyone who can do this as regularly as Tony does deserves high commendation.

Ampney Crucis calls to mind Gordon Stratford and Johnny Tugwell. Many readers will remember them as right half and outside right for Cirencester Town. My warm memory of these two good friends is visiting them in the pavilion of Ampney Crucis cricket ground one Wednesday morning. They always found something to do as well as putting the sporting world to rights.

As we now approach Cirencester the football ground looms. Manager Brian Hughes has an unenviable task in keeping Cirencester Town going in the premier division of the Southern League. He has to keep the team competitive despite having a budget that is at least three times below others in the division. Low gates do not help so all credit to Brian for his ability to make bricks without straw.

Andy Deacon, director of rugby at the town club, is another nominee. Last season he led the club to promotion and in so doing altered the whole culture of the way Cirencester play rugby. There will be many exciting days at The Whiteway this season, especially the games against Stroud.

Also soon, I am sure, to be playing in a higher league are Cirencester Town cricket club. Many good things are happening at the club’s Cirencester Park ground, on and off the field, and two people deserve proper recognition. Nick Price is one. He is a hardworking chairman whose quiet, determined leadership is an inspiration for so much.

Gerald Wilkinson is a cricket administrator par excellence, with the town club and making the CDCA tick. A deserved honour for him.

Phil Carter has been praised before in this column and misses out this year. However, I expect him to be honoured any minute for his service to the tobacco industry.

South Cerney provides two honours nominees. Former town footballer Harry Parker is one. I am certain he could have played at a higher level but he entertained me more than any other local player some 60 years ago. Thanks Harry, it is good to see you still going strong.

Phil James is my final award winner, not for the occasional flighted filth he purveys for the cricket club but for his skills as a quiz master, supporting so many local and county sports functions.