GB News host Anne Diamond, who was made an OBE after campaigning to end cot death, was so shocked by the accolade she was certain it was a prank.
New Year Honours listAnne began her activism after she and then-husband Mike Hollingsworth lost their son Sebastian after he died from sudden infant death syndrome, commonly called cot death, in 1991.
The national media campaign, started in 1991, warned parents that babies should sleep on their backs not their fronts, and has been credited with a reduction in deaths. ‘The lovely lady there said, just to prove it, I’ll read out all your details. And she read me out everything on her computer including my date of birth and everything, and she said, “you weren’t going to accept it, aren’t you?” And I said too right I am!’