A BUSINESS chief is among those awarded an OBE in the Queen's honours list.

Norman Price,of Halfshire Lane, Blakedown, is a board member of regional funding agency Advantage West Midlands.

He is also a director of the organisation's Industry Foundation, and council member of West Midlands CBI and chairman of a number of private and public companies.

Educated at the former Halesowen Grammar School, Mr Price, 58, who lived in Hagley for 20 years, is a regular visitor to Kidderminster where he attends Wyre Forest Business Club in his capacity as a board member for AWM with responsibility for the Worcestershire-Herefordshire area.

A resident of Blakedown for two years, he is married with three daughters.

His wife, Andrea, is a former teacher at Kidderminster High School.