Ladies and gentlemen, it’s that time of year. The Queen has bestowed hundreds of gongs to the great and the good, but The Insider’s fourth annual New Year Honour’s List is here to honour the good, the bad and the downright ridiculous.

* Last laugh award: London Oxford Airport At a whopping 59 miles from the capital, the seemingly ludicrous decision to rebrand Oxford Airport, in Kidlington, looked set to make airport bosses a laughing stock.

P&O ferries even took pot shots at the airport saying they were going to rebrand the Channel port Paris Dover.

Many were stunned and even more had a chuckle.

However, after launching new flights to Jersey and Geneva, and with other routes on the horizon the airport’s billionaire owners David and Simon Reuben will be the ones laughing all the way to the bank.

Thankfully, I can assure readers that pigs will fly before we rebrand ourselves the London Oxford Mail.

* Bungle of the year: Oxford City Council’s electoral services manager Martin John In May, Mr John caused controversy when he mistakenly left 200 polling cards for June’s county council and European elections on a wall during deliveries in Wolvercote and Summertown.

The cards later turned up in a skip in Sunnymead.

Let’s hope lessons have been learned to avoid similar mistakes before this year’s General Election.

* Romeo of the year: Otto Baxter Mr Baxter hit the headlines when he and his mother launched a crusade to find him a lover.

The loveable Otto failed to find the woman of his dreams in the brilliant BBC documentary Otto: Love, Lust and Las Vegas, but he did find his way into the heart of millions of people around the world.

Let’s hope he fares better in his mission this year.

* Dubious talent of the year: Fabia Cerra Greater Leys’s larger-than-life burlesque dancer announced herself to the world by shedding her clothes to millions on the hit ITV show Britain’s Got Talent earlier this year.

The 35-year-old’s strip routine saw her get to the semi-finals, and a YouTube clip of her performance was watched by more than 650,000 people.

The dancer later announced her intention to pursue a career as an adult entertainer for private functions.

Fabia found it hard to keep out of the headlines, with a tumble derailing her latest television appearance revealed this week. Fab Fab was performing on So You Think You Can Dance when she fell off the stage and she needed medical treatment.

Simon Cowell has a lot to answer for.

* U (BEND)-turn of the year: Oxford City Council’s toilet closures The council’s decision to axe seven public toilets to save £50,000 a year rightly drove residents around the bend.

Faced with a baying mob, Labour councillors flushed those ideas down the pan and pledged to save four of the conveniences. They said they saved the toilets after being promised more than £2.2m from the Government to help offset the concessionary bus fares bill.

Perhaps councillors’ fear they might lose their seats was the real reason for the U-turn.