From: Council of Professors and Heads of Computing in UK universities [mailto:cphc-members@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Sue Black Sent: Tuesday 12 May 2009 22:25 To: cphc-members@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Bletchley Park update

Dear all,

Yesterday I spent the day at Bletchley Park with Stephen Fry and others. I contacted Stephen via Twitter last February after realising that he was interested in Bletchley Park.

I have blogged about it here www.savingbletchleypark.org

Rory Cellan Jones who was with us yesterday has blogged about it here on the BBC news website: Bletchley Park - the Fry effect <http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/05/bletchley_park_the_fry_effect.html>

In January I took some social media gurus to Bletchley Park to show them what a wonderful place it is and yesterday Christian Payne took some fabulous photos which you can see here on his Flickr pages. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/christianpayne/>

Stephen Fry has said that he is in for the long haul in terms of saving Bletchley Park and I believe that his involvement will make a considerable difference to the public awareness and hopefully pressure on government to give substantial and sustained funding to Bletchley Park.

Thanks again very much to everyone for your supportive messages and for signing the petition.

Best regards

Sue

-- Dr Sue Black, Head of Department, University of Westminster, UK.

Homepage: www.sueblack.co.uk

Blog: savingbletchleypark.org

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