With Matt Bolton now the editor, T3 technology magazine unveiled its new look, with the emphasis on smarter living, in its November issue. It now includes T3 Horizon, covering all the latest trending technology.
Website: www.t3.com Since 1992, Booktrust, the UK’s largest children’s reading charity, has gifted over 34 million books to children across the UK through Bookstart, a programme which aims to develop a love of books, stories and rhymes in children.
A crime writing event at Glamis Castle, near Dundee, on 24 February, will include writing sessions and author speakers, including Val McDermid, Christopher Brookmyre, Alex Gray, Caro Ramsey, Douglas Skelton, Craig Robertson, Lin Anderson, Frank Muir, Denise Mina. Cost is £55. Website: http://writ.rs/glamis Oxford Dictionaries named youthquake – a shift in cultural norms influenced by young people – as its word of the year. Barnsley (South Yorkshire) Museums and Heritage Trust has found funding for a programme of poetry workshops for patients at Barnsley Hospice. An anthology will be produced. ‘In Greek tragedy they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb [kerb in UK English].’