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Actor John Nettles receives honor from queen (AP, 11/09/10)

Nettles plays Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby in the long-running mystery show, set in the fictional rural county of Midsomer.

He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, or OBE, in a ceremony Tuesday at Buckingham Palace.

he 67-year-old also played a policeman in the 1980s show “Bergerac.”