The Stratford Literary Festival and The Salariya Book Company are delighted to announce the winners of the 2020 Children’s Picture Book Prize. This year saw a record number of entries from across the UK and a very strong field and, after much deliberation, the judges have decided that two winners will share the prize…
Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) has been rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) across all five of its inspection key lines of enquiry – a level only achieved by a very small proportion of the UK’s CQC-inspected healthcare organisations. It is the first Helicopter Emergency Medical Service to achieve this top rating…
Three masterpiece paintings by three of the greatest artists of the Victorian age will be offered for sale at Martin Beisly Fine Art, London this spring. Whispers, 1881 by Frederic, Lord Leighton PRA (1830 – 1896), Isabella and the Pot of Basil, 1867 by William Holman Hunt OM, RWS (1827 – 1910) and The…
Innovative FinTech firm, Gold-i, renowned for pushing boundaries for MetaTrader brokers, has formed a partnership with Conv.rs, a new personalised customer engagement platform, which will transform the way brokers using MetaTrader communicate with clients, bolstering lead generation, client acquisition and retention. Conv.rs’ bespoke technology enables brokers to communicate with clients using any combination of the…
London headquartered IS Prime is the 15th fastest growing financial services company in Europe, according to the Financial Times’ list of Europe’s 1000 fastest growing companies, published on FT.com on 2 March 2020. In the annual list collated by the Financial Times and Statista based on extensive research and analysis of financial results, IS Prime…
Acclaimed author, historian and cultural critic, Daisy Dunn, will be at West Horsley Place on 30 April (7.30pm) to discuss her latest book, In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny. Recognised as one of the UK’s leading female historians, Daisy Dunn lives locally and this will be the first Author Talk to take…
Dame Hilary Mantel, one of the world’s most acclaimed writers, and Rory Bremner, the UK’s leading impressionist, headline the stellar line up at this year’s StratfordLiterary Festival which runs from 9th to 17th May. The twice Booker Prize winner will be talking about the finale to her astonishing trilogy, The Mirror and Light, which…
The Board of Trustees of Watts Gallery has appointed two new trustees, Professor Dame Magdalene Odundo OBE and Dr Malcolm Rogers CBE. The appointments are for up to two terms of 5 years from 2019. Professor Dame Magdalene Odundo OBE is an internationally acclaimed ceramic artist, who received her early education in India and…
Opening on 28 February (until 19 April), Watts Contemporary Gallery presents an exhibition of work by Norman Ackroyd CBE, RA, widely acclaimed as Britain’s foremost contemporary etcher and a leading landscape artist and printmaker. Etching the Archipelago brings together more than 40 aquatint etchings – including a number of new prints – inspired by…
Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin (opening 10 March 2020 at Watts Gallery) examines the legacy of one of the most influential thinkers of the nineteenth century, as an artist, social reformer, ecological thinker and educator. In addition to a core group of Ruskin’s drawings and publications, the exhibition features works by J.…