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Tank Museum wins award for work with offenders
07 Dec 2005
The Tank Museum in Bovington, Dorset, England, and the Dorset Community Service unit have won the Partnership of the Year award at the 2005 National Justice Awards for its work with offenders.
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Maritime Museum is London’s top attraction
30 Nov 2005
Tourism body Visit London announced the winners of its 2005 awards on 29 November in a ceremony at Old Billingsgate Market which saw the National Maritime Museum walk away with the prize for the UK capital's best large visitor attraction.
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£27.9m Kelvingrove revamp nears completion
30 Nov 2005
Closed for refurbishment since summer 2003, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland, is due to reopen to the public in the summer of 2006.
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Weather’s good for tourism businesses
30 Nov 2005
BALPPA, the British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions, has welcomed news that the Met Office has issued new guidelines designed to encourage the use of more positive terms when reporting the weather.
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London Beach greenlighted for 2006
30 Nov 2005
Back Row Events and the South Bank Centre have announced that Lambeth Council has approved a planning re-application for 2006 which would see the use of Hungerford Car Park and part of Queen’s Walk in London as a beach and outdoor cinema next summer.
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Aussie World set to unveil Funny Bone Flicks
29 Nov 2005
Aussie World, a theme park on Australia’s Gold Coast, is set to open Funny Bone Flicks next month – a cinema showing a 25-minute screening of old television commercials and Australian newsreel footage.
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Planning sought for Sands scheme in Scarborough
24 Nov 2005
A detailed planning application has been submitted by North Yorkshire-based Benchmark Leisure to turn Scarborough’s North Bay in the UK into a £120m destination called The Sands.
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Ocean Park launches wedding packages
21 Nov 2005
Hong Kong’s Ocean Park has unveiled a package of eight themed wedding programmes for couples wanting to get married at the theme park.
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TSE identifies tourism customer profiles
21 Nov 2005
Tourism businesses and destinations in the south east of England are set to benefit from the results of a visitor research project carried out over the summer by Tourism South East (TSE).
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Row erupts over London 2012 tourism opportunities
16 Nov 2005
Following a government meeting on 15 November to examine the tourism opportunities hosting the 2012 London Olympics will bring, UKinbound chief executive Stephen Dowd has accused ministers of enacting “a cynical political ploy to shift the spotlight from their woeful record on tourism issues”.
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