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28 Nov 2001
Treasure hoard on view at British Museum
The Winchester Treasure - a gold jewellery hoard from mid 1st century BC has gone on display at the British Museum after being discovered by a metal detectorist in the autumn of 2000. All the objects, including two gold necklace torcs, are rare or unparalleled and there have only been two other known finds of gold Iron Age brooches in Britain to date. The National Art Collections Fund helped the museum secure
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28 Nov 2001
Churchill's secret war rooms to open to the public
A £7.5m project to renovate secret rooms occupied by Churchill's wartime cabinet gets underway this week. The project, which was made possible by an eleventh-hour grant of £2m from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, will treble the size of the existing Cabinet War Rooms museum and create public access to rooms hidden for nearly 60 years. Since 1945 the warren of tiny rooms - for so long the nerve centre of
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21 Nov 2001
Plans for Electric Press
Planning permission has been submitted for a £15m leisure development in Leeds City Centre. Asda St James, a joint venture between St James Securities and Asda Property Holdings of London, plan to transform two of the city's historic buildings The Electric Press and the adjoining Stansfeld Chambers into a 80,00sq ft development featuring bars, restaurants and a new theatre. Seating up to 350, the theatre will
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21 Nov 2001
Mayor announces plans to protect public art in Trafalgar Square
The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has announced the formation of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning group, set up to made recommendations on the next piece of public art to appear on the plinth on Trafalgar Square. Rachel Whiteread is removing her work entitled Monument, leaving an empty space in the square. Ken Livingstone says the Commissioning Group will ensure the rolling programme of public art
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21 Nov 2001
Alnwick cascade marks completion of half the project
A £7m water garden phase at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland is nearing completion, boasting a grand cascade fuelled by pump rooms and computer controlled panels. The garden with holding tanks of 250,000 gallons of water, is part of the £14m Alnwich Garden Scheme to realise the Duchess of Northumberland's aim 'to create one of Europe's most imaginative gardens for a century'. Fund raising will now commence
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20 Nov 2001
Arts Council under fire
The Arts Council of Wales (ACW) has been slammed for allowing over £8m to be lavished on the Centre for the Visual Arts in Cardiff, without adequate checks on how the money was spent. Auditor General for Wales, Sir John Bourn, told the Welsh Assembly that the Arts Council ignored the warnings of its own inspectors that the project was not progressing well. The centre closed after 14 months; it attracted
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16 Nov 2001
£4m for tourism recovery in the Capital
Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, has announced a £4m recovery package for London's tourism, leisure, hospitality and cultural industries, which have been badly affected by the events of 11 September. The money, which comes from the London Development Agency, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and other Government sources will be available to help counteract the recent business downturn. People are
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