NEWS
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NTC reveals Dome opening plans
BY Pete Hayman | 10 May 2010
North Tyneside Council (NTC) has unveiled plans to open up the Whitley Bay's Spanish City Dome to the public as part of the 2010 Heritage Open Days programme.
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Peppa Pig coming to Paultons
BY Luke Tuchscherer | 10 May 2010
An attraction based on the children’s TV show Peppa Pig is being built at Paultons Family Theme Park near The New Forest in Hampshire.
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Ripley's buys four Danish attractions
BY Martin Nash | 06 May 2010
Ripley Entertainment has bought the franchised businesses of Ripley's Believe It or Not! Odditorium and the Guinness World Records Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Cie des Alpes in Futuroscope merger talks
BY Martin Nash | 06 May 2010
Compagnie des Alpes (CDA) is in discussions with the Conseil Général de la Vienne with a view to merging the CDA group with the Futuroscope theme park near Poitiers in west central France.
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Funding pledge for Margate theme park
BY Pete Hayman | 05 May 2010
Plans for a new heritage attraction in Margate, Kent, have been handed a boost after the local authority agreed to contribute up to £4m towards the scheme.
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Cluny celebrations to kick off in Scotland
BY Tom Walker | 05 May 2010
Towns and villages throughout Europe are celebrating their common Cluny heritage this year as part of efforts to increase heritage tourism at religious sites.
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Revamped Birmingham arts venue reopens
BY Pete Hayman | 05 May 2010
A Birmingham arts venue has reopened to the public after closing for two years to enable a major £15m renovation to be carried out.
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Riders caught on Mumbo Jumbo
BY Martin Nash | 04 May 2010
Two riders aboard the Mumbo Jumbo roller coaster at North Yorkshire's Flamingo Land theme park were left hanging upside down for 20 minutes on Bank Holiday Monday when the car they were travelling in got stuck 50ft (15.2m) up in the air.
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Floods close Grand Old Opry
BY Martin Nash | 04 May 2010
Severe flooding as a result of record rainfall in the southern US states over the past few days has led to the closure of the Grand Old Opry Entertainment complex in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Six Flags restructuring complete
BY Martin Nash | 04 May 2010
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (formerly Six Flags, Inc.) has completed its balance sheet restructuring and emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Land option for dragon sculpture plans
BY Pete Hayman | 04 May 2010
Plans for a 65m (213ft) Welsh dragon landmark between Llangollen and Wrexham, North Wales, have been handed a boost by the local authority.
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Craigievar Castle reopens
BY Martin Nash | 04 May 2010
Craigievar Castle, near Alford in Aberdeenshire, reopened on 1 May following a two-year restoration programme.
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Natural History Museum reopens in Dublin
BY Pete Hayman | 29 Apr 2010
Dublin's Natural History Museum (NHM) has reopened nearly three years after the collapse of a stone staircase caused the attraction to shut for safety testing.
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Virtual medieval museum for Newport
BY Martin Nash | 29 Apr 2010
The University of Wales, Newport has created an online virtual museum which will show how the town's medieval castle and ship may have looked in the 15th century.
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Pottery museum trust enters administration
BY Pete Hayman | 29 Apr 2010
Trustees of the Wedgwood Museum in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, have called in administrators after being saddled with a multi-million pound pension deficit.
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Theme park industry weathering the recession
BY Martin Nash | 27 Apr 2010
The latest TEA/AECOM Attraction Attendance Report shows a relatively stable situation among the world's most popular theme parks for the calendar year 2009, with the top 25 sites attracting 185.4 million visitors - compared with 188 million during the previous year.
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Swampland to open in Oregon aquarium
BY Martin Nash | 27 Apr 2010
The Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, OR, US is to open a new Swampland exhibit, with a range of creatures inhabiting replicated versions of the South American swamp of the Pantanal, a Florida mangrove swamp and a southeastern US cypress swamp.
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New trust to run Peterborough venues
BY Pete Hayman | 27 Apr 2010
Peterborough City Council (PCC) has announced that a new trust will take over responsibility for the operation of culture and leisure venues on 1 May under a 25-year deal.
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