We were approached by the production team working on a new children’s programme about World Heritage Sites in the UK featuring filming with Jedward for CBBC – thats the celebrity twin-brother team John and Edward. The idea of the show was for the boys to prove they would be a better tour guide for the…
The Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site is proud to host the third UNESCO Youth Summit on the 27th, 28th and 29th June 2012. If you are aged between 13-17 on 27th June 2012 and you can form a group of up to 5 like-minded young people, you could win the chance to represent your school…
The 50th anniversary of the Ussher Conference was held at the Royal Beacon Hotel, Exmouth between the 3rd and the 5th January 2012. 85 geologists and geomorphologists gathered for the annual conference which covered both new work and research in south-west England together with a number of historical perspectives including the history of the Society…
The Jurassic Coast celebrated its 10th anniversary on Tuesday 13 December with a series of free guided walks. The walks, open to the general public, included two based on Purbeck – one at Lulworth and the other at Durlston Country Park…here is a brief account of how they went: Ten hardy souls set off from…
Dorset’s coastal museums, along with the coastal museums of East Devon marked the 10th anniversary of the inscription of the Jurassic Coast as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. To this day, the Jurassic Coast is still the only natural World Heritage Site in England. The Site, stretching from Orcombe Point, Exmouth to Studland Bay in…
It was decided that this year’s Jurassic Coast Business Award would be for businesses that have contributed to the values of the Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site. We had some great entries from businesses and business owners who have done so much for the Jurassic Coast and improving the experience for visitors…
The annual symposium of vertebrate palaeontology and comparative anatomy came to Lyme Regis in mid September. The town was chosen in this year because this is the bicentenary of the discovery by Mary and Joseph Anning of the first ever fossil ichthyosaur skull to come to the attention of science. 118 experts from 18 different…
The Big Jurassic Classroom is all about bringing the Olympic values and the Jurassic Coast together to celebrate the 2012 Games, especially as the sailing events are taking place on our World Heritage Site next summer! We are offering two hour free teacher training sessions to all Dorset and East Devon schools over the next…
Visitors, and locals alike, are being encouraged to think of travel as being more than ‘A to B’ in an initiative to highlight the South West’s most scenic journeys. The ‘Spectacular Journeys’ initiative, being carried out on behalf of the South West Tourism Alliance, aims to highlight travel as a key attraction of the region,…