UGG® AUSTRALIA STEPS UP TO HELP GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL CHILDREN’S CHARITY WITH AN IN-STORE RAFFLE OF CELEBRITY DECORATED BOOTS

April 2010 – UGG® Australia is kicking off a month-long raffle of celebrity-decorated and autographed UGG® Australia boots in its Covent Garden and Westfield London stand-alone stores.

Shoppers can enter by donating £1 in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity and filling in an entry form in-store for a chance to win a pair of decorated boots by T4’s Jameela Jamil, comedian Jimmy Carr, singer and presenter Jenny Frost, TV news presenter Natasha Kaplinsky and many more. The in-store raffle will run from the 15th of April to the 15th of May with UGG® Australia matching the final donations received. Lucky winners will be notified by the 3rd of June 2010.

The stars decorated the boots at a private family shopping evening in the Covent Garden store a few months back, with many of the children getting involved and helping to add their creative flair to the boots.

UGG® Australia Westfield Shopping Centre, Ariel Way, London, W12 7GD, tel: 0208 740 8446

UGG® Australia Covent Garden, 39 Long Acre, London, WC2, tel: 0207 836 5729

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity

Great Ormond Street Hospital is one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals with the broadest range of dedicated, children’s healthcare specialists under one roof in the UK. The hospital’s pioneering research and treatment gives hope to children who are suffering from the rarest, most complex and often life-threatening conditions, from across the country and abroad.

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity needs to raise £50 million a year to help rebuild and refurbish Great Ormond Street Hospital, provide vital up-to-date equipment and fund research into better treatments for the children. You can help us to provide world class care for our patients and families. www.gosh.org

©2007 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. Registered charity no. 235825

CARAMEL BABY & CHILD SS10 - IN STORE NOW

The Caramel Baby & Child collection for SS2010 sees a combination of structured shaped tops worn with looser, more relaxed bottoms. For girls, exaggerated puff sleeves feature on blouses and dresses, made in crisp Japanese cottons in a fresh and summery colour palette. Vintage Liberty and ditsy floral prints appear throughout, as well as Caramel’s signature print - a window pane check in two colour ways, one in red and beige, the other in pink and white.

Finishing and detailing include ruffles, pin tucks, fluro piping and raw edged gathering on trousers. Key pieces from the collection include a classic trench coat, peg leg trousers and a blouson sleeve dress.

For boys, an assortment of loose fitting smock shirts in various stripes are worn with classic navy linen shorts. Checks of various sizes and shades feature on Italian cotton shirts.

A summer colour palette combines a neutral mix of colours alongside acid yellow, salmon pink and scarlet with a vibrant orange madras check for high summer.

To see the full collection visit www.caramel-shop.co.uk

FROM 3D TO 4D – AN EPIC NEW DIMENSION LAUNCHES AT OUR DYNAMIC EARTH

With snow falling on the audience, natural aromas filling the theatre, wind blowing and turbulence, 4DVENTURE, the latest addition to Edinburgh’s Our Dynamic Earth’s line-up, is sure to add an epic and exhilarating new sensory dimension for visitors from this Easter.

Opening on 2 April 2010, 4DVENTURE is Scotland’s first permanent 4D theatre and represents a £700,000 investment by the five-star visitor attraction which tells the story of planet earth. Full theatre effects will enhance a beautifully rendered eight minute film that takes visitors on a journey across the globe, from the Tundra region to the Boreal Rainforest, during which visitors will quite literally come face to face with the diversity of habitats that sustain life on earth. All brought to the cinema screen through photo-realistic 3D animation, stereoscopic sound and unique sensory effects – known as the fourth dimension.

Visitors will be taken on a journey that starts from the Earth Matters arctic research base with an informative and entertaining pre-flight briefing to prepare them for their ‘flight’ from the arctic tundra to the tropical rainforests. Along the way they will quite literally come face-to-face with a variety of species of plants and animals. With an entertaining script and an action-packed storyline, visitors are guaranteed a memorable journey that will leave them with a greater understanding of the fragility of life on our planet.

Commenting on the new installation, Catriona Cardie, marketing director of Our Dynamic Earth, said: “We constantly strive to ensure that there is always something new to see and experience at Dynamic Earth. I am confident that this is our most exciting investment to date.

“3D film is very topical right now but we have taken that a stage further by producing a completely immersive experience which is even more lifelike and has some startling moments. We hope people will leave feeling that they have had a real-life adventure as well as having had a taste of earth’s diversity along the way.”

An integral part of the Our Dynamic Earth tour, the 4DVENTURE journey explores a series of climatic zones – biomes - from the Tundra to the temperate biome where we live, across the Alpine region, the Mediterranean Sea, the sand dunes of the desert and on to the Savannah Grasslands before arriving in the Tropical Rainforest.

The technology and storyline for the new theatre was commissioned by Our Dynamic Earth from Global Immersion and NSC Creative, both specialists in large format immersive cinematic experiences.

Opening Times:
10am – 5.30pm Daily

Cost of Admission:

Adults: £10.50
Concessions: £9
Child: £7
Under 3s: Free

• Our Dynamic Earth is registered in Scotland as a charity. SC020363

• Find out more at www.dynamicearth.co.uk.

• Global Immersion is an award-winning organisation, dedicated to the unique and innovative medium of immersive theatre. With over ten years experience in the world of fulldome displays and scientific data visualisation, Global Immersion combines a broad range of proven technologies to create enthralling and exciting immersive theatre.

• The National Space Centre is home to NSC Creative, suppliers of CG animation and visual effects for all formats, with a focus on large format immersive experiences including fulldome and stereoscopic 3D motion rides. The team has experience in TV broadcasts and is a world leader in fulldome production, with over 10 years experience producing high-quality digital planetarium shows.

• 4DVENTURE is suitable for all ages and is curriculum-linked for 9 – 14 year olds

WONDERS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
DVD & BLU-RAY RELEASE DATE: 12TH APRIL 2010
Professor Brian Cox takes another giant leap for humankind as images of distant alien worlds are brought into breathtaking focus. Giant ice fountains rising over 100km high; an ocean hidden beneath a frozen crust of ice; storms three times the size of Earth coloured blood red by a vortex of dust and gases; immense volcanoes that would put Mount Everest in the shade – this amazing DVD reveals the true and awesome beauty of our solar system. It's an epic journey of discovery, where bizarre worlds become real places we can see, feel and visit.

Travelling from the Sun to the far-out reaches of Neptune, Wonders of the Solar System has at its heart the latest scientific knowledge beamed back from the fleet of probes, rovers and telescopes currently in space. Using the very latest images sent direct from space, and spectacular CGI, the series presents a spellbinding voyage around the natural wonders of the solar system, capturing explosive phenomena in minute detail.

Alongside these startlingly authentic images, some of the most spectacular, extreme locations on Earth help to reveal wonders never thought possible. Wonders of The World explores how these previously unseen phenomena have dramatically expanded our horizons, revealing more about the planets, their moons and how they came to be the way they are.

The series also looks at the big picture – how the forces of nature carved out beauty and order from the chaos of space; how our home planet doesn’t sit in magnificent isolation but is intimately connected with the rest of the Solar System; and how these connections have created the haven we call Earth.

PRODUCT INFORMATION

RELEASE DATE: 12 April 2010
RRP: DVD - £19.99

CAT NO: DVD - BBCDVD3191 DURATION :5 x 50 mins approx, 2 discs
Blu-ray – BBCBD0078 Blu-ray - £24.99


Hot Brands Verdict
Our junior reviewers were transfixed when they saw some of this series on television, the images are spectacular, and the presenter’s enthusiasm makes this a very special DVD to keep and treasure. It also makes important points about how much we should protect and value our world. Highly Recommended!

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