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17th – 20th July 2008 Southwold, Suffolk

The line up for the 2008 Latitude Festival includes  Franz Ferdinand, Sigur Ros, Interpol, Death Cab For Cutie, Amadou et Mariam, Elbow, The Breeders, MIA During 2007 major acts included Jarvis Cocker, Damien Rice and the Gotan Project.

Similar to other festivals the Latitude Festival is encouraging guests to reduce their carbon footprint by sharing ‘lifts’ to the Festival via the service provided by Liftshare.

Photos by Jon Appleyard rawrphotography@gmail.com

Svalbard Global Seed Vault has now opened.  Located on the island of Spitsbergen  the ‘vault’ is constructed 120m inside a mountain.

The mission is to collect seeds from around the world and from other seeds banks  to ensure that they are never lost to mankind.   The vault currently stores approximately 1.5 million seeds but it has a capacity to store up to 4.5 million seeds.  Photos Mari Thefre / Global Crop Diversity Trust.