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Adelaide Zoo welcomes visiting gorillas
14 Mar 2006
Two Western Lowland Gorillas have moved into Adelaide Zoo in South Australia as part of the international zoo-based management for the endangered species.
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NSPCC launches Staying Safe
14 Mar 2006
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) has launched a new safeguarding scheme in the UK, designed to help non-statutory organisations in the voluntary and commercial sectors better protect children and young people.
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New chair for Millennium Point
13 Mar 2006
Sir Bernard Zissman is to succeed Bob Jordan as chair of the board of Millennium Point at the end of this month.
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New NMSI director appointed
13 Mar 2006
Martin Earwicker – current chief executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory – has been appointed director of the National Museum of Science and Industry (NMSI).
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Work set to begin on Yorkshire Wheel
09 Mar 2006
Work is set to begin early this week on construction of The Yorkshire Wheel, a 54m high observation wheel based at the National Railway Museum.
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VisitBritain calls for promotion of British food
09 Mar 2006
Tom Wright, chief executive of VisitBritain, has called on shops and restaurants throughout the UK to do more to promote regional food and drink – to encourage tourists to spend more.
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Coventry Transport Museum to unveil £6.9m revamp
09 Mar 2006
Coventry Transport Museum is set to unveil a £6.9m redevelopment and expansion next month which will see the introduction of several new galleries.
The project follows a previous £7.5m redevelopment just two years ago.
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£150,000 revamp for Standedge Visitor Centre
08 Mar 2006
York-based Continuum Group has been appointed by British Waterways Yorkshire to design and implement a £150,000 revamp of Standedge Visitor Centre – the site of Britain’s highest, longest and deepest canal tunnel.
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Hip-Hop comes to the Smithsonian
02 Mar 2006
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) in Washington DC, US, is compiling a collection of hip-hop memorabilia, which it hopes will become a public exhibition.
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Blackpool to achieve world heritage status?
07 Mar 2006
Blackpool council in Lancashire, UK has published a draft Heritage Strategy in its bid to see the town achieving world heritage status as the first working-class seaside resort.
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Natural History Museum is squids in
06 Mar 2006
An 8.6m (28ft) giant squid – the most complete ever found – is being displayed in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum in London, UK.
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Rival supercasino bids
27 Feb 2006
Tees Valley Regeneration has selected Aspers to represent Middlesbrough’s bid to win the UK’s supercasino licence.
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Harvard Art Museums to integrate
24 Feb 2006
The Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, in Cambridge Massachusetts, US, collectively known as the Harvard University Arts Museums (HUAM) are to be combined to create a centre for research and advancing professional development in the visual arts.
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Space Adventures versus Virgin Galactic spaceports
23 Feb 2006
The company which sent the first private citizens into space – Space Adventures – is set to invest a total of US$265m (£152m, 222m euro) in two new spaceports based in Singapore and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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