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Trial operations start at Shanghai's Expo Park
BY Martin Nash | 20 Apr 2010
The first of six public trials of the facilities at Shanghai's Expo Park began today (20 April), with the city's transport systems coming under test just as much as the operation of the site itself.
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Customer service training for museum staff
BY Tom Walker | 20 Apr 2010
The Imperial War Museum in London has completed a training initiative which saw all 200 customer-facing staff receive take part in customer service tutoring.
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Free attractions for stranded visitors
BY Martin Nash | 20 Apr 2010
SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment is offering free one-day admission to any UK, Irish or continental European tourists stranded in Florida due to the interruption to international air travel caused by ash from the Icelandic volcano.
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£5.5m Durlston Castle scheme underway
BY Pete Hayman | 20 Apr 2010
Dorset-based contractor Greendale Construction has started work on a £5.5m scheme to restore a historic Grade II-listed castle near Swanage.
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Second Scottish Go Ape opens
BY Tom Walker | 19 Apr 2010
High wire adventure park operator Go Ape has opened a new site at Beecraigs Country Park, West Lothian, Scotland.
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New Bosworth Battlefield gallery opens
BY Pete Hayman | 16 Apr 2010
Leicestershire County Council (LCC) has officially unveiled a new gallery at the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre,Sutton Cheney, near Market Bosworth.
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New Museum of Wigan Life opens
BY Pete Hayman | 14 Apr 2010
A new museum has opened its doors to the public in Wigan, Greater Manchester, following the completion of a £1.9m scheme to revamp the town's former History Shop.
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Plant life theme park opens in France
BY Martin Nash | 13 Apr 2010
Almost exactly 12 years after the idea was originally mooted, the first theme park in Europe devoted to plant life has opened near Angers in France's north western Anjou region.
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Flamingos wiped out at Helsinki Zoo
BY Tom Walker | 09 Apr 2010
Helsinki Zoo's 15-strong flock of Chilean Flamingos has been discovered dead inside their enclosure on Friday 9 April.
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Apollo pulls out of Cedar Fair deal
BY Tom Walker | 07 Apr 2010
Apollo Global Management has pulled the plug on its planned US$650m takeover of theme park operator Cedar Fair, following opposition to the agreed price by Cedar Fair shareholders.
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Wedgwood Museum handed pension debt
BY Pete Hayman | 07 Apr 2010
A museum dedicated to the history of the 250-year-old Wedgwood pottery group in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, has been handed a £134m pension debt.
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Government funding for north west museums
BY Martin Nash | 06 Apr 2010
The Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced a total of £700,000 funding for museum projects in Manchester and Liverpool.
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Disney Tokyo attendance figures up on estimates
BY Martin Nash | 06 Apr 2010
Tokyo Disney Resort has reported an increase in projected visitor numbers to its Tokyo Disneyland Park and Tokyo DisneySea Park for the financial year 2009-10.
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OMA wins Quebec museum competition
BY Martin Nash | 01 Apr 2010
Netherlands-based The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has won a competition for a major expansion to the Musee national des beaux-arts du Quebec (MNBAQ) in Quebec, Canada.
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£3.4m ERDF funding for Liverpool museum
BY Martin Nash | 01 Apr 2010
The Northwest European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) programme is to provide £3.4m of funding for four exhibition spaces at the new Museum of Liverpool.
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Polin Waterparks
Polin was founded in Istanbul in 1976. Polin
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Holovis
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RMA Ltd
RMA Ltd is a one-stop global company
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Alterface
Alterface’s Creative Division team is
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