Francis O'Neill telecommunications manager, Argyll and Clyde Acute Hospitals NHS Trust (Greenock, Renfrewshire) - For services to Telecommunications in the NHS. Nancy Lilias Genevieve Ovens (Edinburgh) - For services to vocational education and training in sport, recreation and playwork.

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By training a soldier in an accurate recreation of former missions, military analysts believe that video game developers are helping to prepare soldiers for the battlefield in a way never before possible.

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Conversely, the worst-paying college majors are child and family studies, elementary education, social work, culinary arts, special education, recreation and leisure studies, religious studies, and athletic training.

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The deal involves Bath Rugby Club giving up its former training ground in Lambridge in exchange for a bigger part of the recreation ground in the city.

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