As one of the country’s leading literary festivals that had to be cancelled because of the Covid-19 outbreak, the Stratford Literary Festival has been busy curating activities to keep its audiences inspired and entertained. Following the launch of its Sharing Stories page, which has already attracted thousands of visitors and features best-selling authors and…
WINNER OF 2020 AWESOME BOOK AWARDS TO BE ANNOUNCED ON 7 MAY The winner of the 2020 Awesome Book Awards will be announced on 7 May – via an online event that can be watched by all. Now in their fourth year, the Awesome Book Awards recognise the very best works of fiction…
West Horsley Place is inviting members of the local community to help create an artwork that explores ‘what makes us glad right now’. Devised by local artist Diana Burch in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the GladRags project asks local residents – including children – to create a small patchwork square that captures ‘what…
Registered charity Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) has launched a Coronavirus Emergency Appeal to raise vital funds for its life saving service. KSS needs to raise £535,000 to ensure it can continue to provide world-class fast-response medical care to the sickest and most critically injured across the Kent, Surrey and Sussex regions. In addition,…
Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) today announces that it will be extending its role at the frontline of the response to the coronavirus pandemic. Working in partnership with the NHS and South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb), KSS will transfer patients requiring critical care by land, with aircraft being used for…
Netley Court, a luxury care home in Netley Abbey, Southampton, has been awarded an overall rating of ‘outstanding’ following an inspection by England’s health and social care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC). This highest rating level is only given to 3.5% of care homes in the country. In addition to the overall rating, ‘outstanding’…
The Stratford Literary Festival is excited to launch a free-to-access page of online video content featuring bestselling authors and illustrators – aimed at young children and parents who are at home because of the Covid-19 outbreak. Those appearing include: Jeanne Willis, author of over 150 books, reading The Bog Baby; the popular author-illustrator Steven Lenton…
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…