{"id":341806,"date":"2025-12-29T23:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341806\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T23:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T23:39:07","slug":"wales-new-year-honours-rugby-legend-jonathan-davies-receives-cbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/341806\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales New Year Honours: Rugby legend Jonathan Davies receives CBE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davies, originally from Trimsaran, Carmarthenshire, has been broadcasting for 28 years in both rugby league and rugby union. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC pundit, who won 37 caps for Wales in rugby union, as well as making nine appearances for Wales in rugby league and 10 for the British and Irish Lions across his international career in the 1980s and 1990s, said it was &#8220;nice&#8221; to have the accolade for broadcasting, but &#8220;the important one was for cancer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davies, president of Velindre Cancer Centre, said: &#8220;This award goes to everyone who has ever helped Velindre and especially the amazing staff who work there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that he, along with the fundraising team at the charity, had raised more than \u00a350m through bikes rides and events, and said he has a ride planned from Seville to Marbella next year so needed to &#8220;get back on his bike&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Davies was first made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to rugby league football in the 1995 New Year Honours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Then in 2015 Birthday Honours, he was promoted to Officer of the British Empire (OBE), for voluntary and charitable services to people with cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Davies, originally from Trimsaran, Carmarthenshire, has been broadcasting for 28 years in both rugby league and rugby union.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-341806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}