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Professor Mark Bailey, Executive Director of the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), and Professor Alan Jenkins, the Deputy Director, visited government departments and potential partners in Accra, Ghana, last week.

UEA professor Mark Bailey has recently uncovered a medieval lost port, sunken near Bawdsey - Credit: Charlotte Bond It comes as no surprise that Britain’s coastlines are constantly changing and evolving due to a variety of natural and unnatural forces.  However, here in Suffolk, a lost port has just been discovered where Shingle Street now is – much to the surprise of all involved.  This recent and eye-opening discovery will help scientists and historians understand more about East Anglia...

Published: 8:00 AM February 6, 2021    Free online events are marking 1000 years of the Abbey of St Edmund in Bury St Edmunds - Credit: West Suffolk Council How did Edmund go from being a defeated regional king to the patron saint of England - and why did a Danish monarch decide to build an abbey in his honour? These are the themes behind the latest in a series of free, online talks to mark 1,000 years since the founding of the Abbey of St Edmund in Bury St Edmunds. The statue of St Edmund i...

Posted on How did Edmund go from being a defeated regional king to the patron saint of England and why did a Danish monarch decide to build an Abbey in his honour? These are the themes behind the latest in a series of free, online talks, to mark 1000 years since the founding of the Abbey of St Edmund in Bury St Edmunds. “The way the Abbey of St Edmund came into being, compared to all of the other medieval Abbeys in England, is quite possibly unique in that it seems to owe its origins to t...