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Sentosa proclaims 2005 as Visit Fort Siloso Year
21 Dec 2004
To mark 60 years since the end of World War II, Sentosa, Singapore’s island resort, has proclaimed 2005 to be Visit Fort Siloso Year and introduced a new S$5m (£1.57m, US$3.05m, 2.28m euros) tour of the attraction.
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Euro Disney wins 1bn euro lifeline
21 Dec 2004
Euro Disney SAS has been given a 1bn euro (£516m, $1bn) lifeline by the Walt Disney Company as part of an ongoing financial restructuring of the Disneyland Resort Paris operator.
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Attractive new way to experience Shakespeare
13 Dec 2004
A new, multi-million pound visitor attraction, called Shakespearience, opened to the public on 3 December at the Waterside Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.
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Sally Marvels at cartoon deal
08 Dec 2004
US-based ride designer Sally Corporation has signed a deal which will allow Sally to use the entire line of Marvel comic book characters in amusement park rides and interactive exhibits.
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St Paul’s west front revealed
08 Dec 2004
Scaffolding has now been removed from St Paul’s Cathedral in London, revealing the results of an extensive, £5m cleaning and repair programme of the west front.
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New Huss ride for Cedar Point
07 Dec 2004
Site clearing and construction for maXair, US theme park Cedar Point’s new ride for 2005, is currently under way.
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All change at LEGOLAND
01 Dec 2004
The LEGO company – which owns the four LEGOLAND theme parks – has announced that it is unlikely to break even in 2004 and will consequently be transferring the LEGOLAND parks either partly or wholly to new owners and a separate company, so it can focus on its core play materials business.
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Human Orrery brings astronomy to life
01 Dec 2004
The Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland has launched a large outdoor exhibition which accurately depicts the solar system, in order to make astronomy more accessible to the public.
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Deaf people failed by UK arts attractions
30 Nov 2004
A new survey of arts attractions across the UK has found that the majority are failing their deaf and hard of hearing customers with ‘an overwhelmingly endless catalogue of patchy access’.
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£106m Wales Millennium Centre opens
29 Nov 2004
The £106m Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff opened over the weekend with a three-day celebration which included performances by Dame Shirley Bassey, the Cape Town Opera, the Kirov Ballet and opera singer Bryn Terfel.
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Visit London teams up with Bridget Jones
25 Nov 2004
Visit London is planning to capitalise on the success of Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by producing a movie map promoting some of the London locations featured in the film.
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Eden slams reports of £4m loss
19 Nov 2004
The Eden Project has slammed claims in the national press that the attraction has lost £4m in the past year due to a slump in visitor numbers.
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Plans to save Cutty Sark revealed
17 Nov 2004
Ambitious plans to save the only surviving tea clipper of its kind in the world, the Greenwich-based Cutty Sark, have been unveiled by the Cutty Sark Trust.
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