Ginormous congratulations to one of our most favourite people Elaine Smith (Mark's Mum), Elaine was awarded with the MBE in the Queens Birthday Honours List. We are all massively proud of her.
Local Heroes (Source Blackpool Gazette)
Elaine Smith, chairman of Blackpool Civic Trust, has been awarded an MBE for services to heritage.She said:
"I was in tears when I found out. It's a really joyful day."I'm very proud of Blackpool and what is being achieved here. "People talk the town down constantly. It doesn't deserve that."And as far as I'm concerned the MBE is for every one of us who has defended the resort and protected its heritage, but also looked to the future and seen that marvellous things are finally happening here."
The Guardian's Queen's birthday honours list: MBEs
Order of the British Empire