In Lancashire, Professor David Chadwick, of Ormskirk, received an OBE for his services to road safety along with Preston's Alan Woods, the chief executive of EnCams, formerly the Tidy Britain Group, who received the honour for his work on sustainable development.

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The Agricultural Biotechnology Council, the lobby group for GM crop companies in Britain, described the work as "an interesting development".

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This group will sketch out their solutions to public safety problems and, by leveraging open government data, work to catalyze development of prototypes in the following 90 days.

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