Honours refusals published

A SECRET list of 300 top people who snubbed the honours system by refusing knighthoods and other awards was revealed yesterday.

David Bowie, celebrity cook Nigella Lawson and comedy duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders were among those who refused honours, it was claimed.

Bowie declined a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours of 2000 while Lawson, rejected an OBE offered in 2001 for “services to journalism and to cookery”.