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- ↑ "Business agency backs women entrepreneurs". Coventry Telegraph . 1 December 2005. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ↑ "The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion" (PDF). The London Gazette : S4. 21 April 2008.
- ↑ "Ex-Coventry council leader Kenneth Taylor appointed OBE". BBC News. 12 June 2010. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ↑ "Birthday Honours: Order of the British Empire MBE". The Independent . London. 12 June 2010. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
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