DR?IAN Tunbridge, executive director of Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), has been awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours List for services to education. Dr Tunbridge was born and raised in Launceston, where his parents still live, and now lives with his wife and two children in Liskeard. He has been active in promoting university level education in Cornwall since the 1980s, both in his current role and in his previous post as Dean of the University of Plymouth Colleges Faculty. SEE Cornish & Devon Post for full story and picture.