TWO sisters are among those who have received awards in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, announced today.

Sixteen-year-old cancer sufferer Alice Pyne and her sister Milly, from Ulverston, were given British Empire Medals for their services to charity.

The pair have campaigned tirelessly over the last year to raise awareness of the need for more bone marrow donors to help people like Alice, who has a blood cancer called Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Miss Pyne first caught the public’s attention with her online blog, where she published a bucket list of things she wanted to achieve before she died.

At the top of her list was her wish to get everyone to join the bone marrow register.

The teenager raised the issue of bone marrow donors with David Cameron last July, when she visited Westminster to discuss the donor register.

In April, she launched Alice’s Escapes, a charity which aims to fund holidays for terminally ill children to go on holidays and days out in the Lake District.

Meanwhile her sister has raised thousands of pounds to support the Anthony Nolan Trust, which manages the UK bone marrow register, and to raise awareness of the need for more bone marrow donors to join to register.

Her mother Vicky Pyne said she was ‘very proud of the pair’ and her phone had not stopped ringing all week.

Others who recieved awards included Thomas Liddle, who received a British Empire Medal for services to the community of Milnthorpe, and Paul Edmondson, who was given the award for services to the community of Kendal.

Cumbria Chamber of Commerce chief executive Robert Johnston was given an OBE for services to businesses in Cumbria.