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SUMMARY:Defence Lecture: Defending the UK in unprecedented times by General Sir Patrick Sanders
DESCRIPTION:General Sir Patrick Sanders KCB CBE DSO\, former Chief of the General Staff \nDate/Time: Thursday 13 February 2025\, 5.30pm \nVenue: Curtis Auditorium\, Herschel Building\, Newcastle University \n\n\n\n\nAll our events remain free and open to all\, but pre-booking is required. Bookings for this lecture will open at 10.00am on 6 February. \nTo reserve your place click the booking link below or telephone our booking voicemail line 0191 208 6136.\n\n\n\n\nHeads of the military and of the intelligence agencies agree that 2025 is a year of unusually serious and multilayered challenges. How the country chooses to deal with them – with low economic growth and with urgent demands on public spending elsewhere – is yet another. \nBiography \nBorn in Tidworth Garrison military hospital and raised in Norway\, Gibraltar and Iraq\, General Sir Patrick Sanders was commissioned in 1986 and spent his early service as an Infantry Officer in The Royal Green Jackets in Germany\, Norway and the UK. He has commanded on operations in Northern Ireland\, Kosovo\, Bosnia\, Iraq and Afghanistan. \nHis staff appointments have been in operational and strategic roles. He has been a member of the Directing Staff at the Joint Staff College\, Pol/Mil adviser for the Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq in 2003-4\, Colonel Army Strategy\, Chief of Defence Staff’s Liaison Officer to the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff\, and Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations) in the MOD. \nHis higher command appointments were 20 Armoured Brigade\, the 3rd (UK) Division and the Field Army. He was promoted to General in May 2019 and commanded UK Strategic Command until May 2022. He became Chief of the General Staff in June 2022. \nRead More
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SUMMARY:Emily Chappell’s Epic Tales of Cycling Adventure
DESCRIPTION:The inspirational adventurer and endurance cyclist Emily Chappell shares stories from her epic travels and remarkable life story. \nEmily Chappell was not sporty at school\, but when she reached her mid-20s\, she began to make up for lost time. First\, she gave up her office job to become a London cycle courier. Then\, in 2016\, she cycled 4000km in 13 days\, from Belgium to Turkey\, to become the first woman home in The Transcontinental race. Her account of the experience\, ‘Where There’s a Will’\, part-travelogue\, part-open-hearted memoir\, was nominated at the 2020 Daily Telegraph Sports Books of the Year awards. \nEmily has also completed many other long-distance cycling trips (Anchorage to Seattle in midwinter temperatures going down to minus 25; Wales to Japan; across Iceland) and we are delighted to welcome her to discuss her epic adventures and all matters arising\, in an evening of evocative and inspiring conversation with former Procycling magazine writer\, Duncan Steer. An evening for adventurers\, armchair adventurers and anyone interested in exactly how someone can so drastically change their path through life. \nThere will be a chance to ask your own questions. \nPresented with Radio Days. \nTicket Prices: £14\, £11 concession. \nbooking fee applies online.
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