Honours for politicians

Leading figures from politics and the arts are among those who will receive honorary doctorates from Queen's University Belfast…

Leading figures from politics and the arts are among those who will receive honorary doctorates from Queen's University Belfast this year.

They include: the Northern Secretary, Dr Mowlam; the First Minister, Mr David Trimble; the Deputy First Minister, Mr Seamus Mallon; the SDLP leader, Mr John Hume; the novelist and playwright Edna O'Brien; the actor and former QUB student Simon Callow; and the chairman of the North's Fair Employmen Commission, Sir Robert Cooper.