NEWS
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Deadline looms for lottery consultation
31 Jan 2006
Organisations working in the UK's arts, sports and heritage sectors have just a month left to have their say on how lottery money should be distributed after 2009.
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Star wars at the Planetarium
31 Jan 2006
The Tussauds Group is to close the London, UK Planetarium in July following a decline in visitors to the attraction.
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£15m promised to revamp two heritage sites
30 Jan 2006
The UK secretary of state for culture, media and sport, Tessa Jowell, has announced that the People’s History Museum in Manchester and London’s Chiswick House are to be granted a total of £15m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
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National Gallery goes bard
27 Jan 2006
The National Portrait Gallery in London, UK, is to open a new exhibition on the life of playwright William Shakespeare.
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Anti-SAD café at Dana Centre
26 Jan 2006
A café specially designed to beat the winter blues opened for 3 weeks at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre in London, UK, on 9 January.
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BALPPA signs five-year LIW sponsorship deal
24 Jan 2006
The British Association of Leisure Parks Piers and Attractions (BALPPA) has signed a five-year sponsorship deal with annual UK leisure trade show and exhibition Leisure Industry Week (LIW), which takes place at Birmingham NEC on 26-28 September this year.
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Wet’n’Wild ready to launch Extreme H20 Zone
18 Jan 2006
Wet’n’Wild Water World on Australia’s Gold Coast in Queensland is to open phase one of its new high-speed water slide area, Extreme H2O Zone, this weekend (21 January).
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HLF gives £7m boost to heritage skills
18 Jan 2006
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is to provide £7m to fund 10 partnerships in the UK which will create apprenticeships in traditional heritage skills and crafts.
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National Film Theatre work to begin
16 Jan 2006
Work will begin this month on a £4.5m project in the UK to turn London’s Museum of the Moving Image into a new home for the British Film Institute (BFI)-run National Film Theatre.
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New Woollongong bridge is boost to tourism
16 Jan 2006
Tourism officials in Wollongong, New South Wales (NSW), Australia have welcomed the opening of the new AUS$49m (US$37m, £21m, 30.5m euro) Sea Cliff Bridge, claiming it will ‘breathe fresh life’ into a coastal strip that has huge potential as a tourism and lifestyle centre.
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US$25m donation to New York Met
12 Jan 2006
The Metropolitan Opera house in New York, US, has received an unexpected donation from a benefactor of US$25m (£14.2m, 20.7m euro).
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Outback Bay opens at Jamberoo
11 Jan 2006
Jamberoo theme park in New South Wales, Australia, has opened a AUS$4m (£1.7m, US$3m, 2.5m euro) new wave pool called Outback Bay.
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