Gym couple receive OBEs

Len and Yvonne Arnold picked up OBEs for their services to gymnastics after recognition earlier this year for running a gym which even trained an Olympian.

Rags Martel has more.

Married couple Yvonne and Leonard Arnold, dedicated gymnastics coaches who sold their own home to keep their Kent gymnastics club open, were both awarded an OBE for services to gymnastics. Princess Anne did the honours.

Mrs Arnold was a British and Olympic gymnast and captained the British Olympic gymnastic team at the 1972 Munich Olympics.

Len and Yvonne Arnold, the couple who run a gym in Crayford which was used as an Olympic training venue have received OBEs at Buckingham Palace.

Former gymnast Yvonne Arnold and her husband Len have been honoured for their dedication to training athletes.

At one stage, they even sold their home to keep the gym open, and later created a new training facility which was used in the run-up to London 2012.