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Seaside Award for 308 British beaches
The Tidy Britain Group has awarded 308 beaches with the Seaside Award, adding 36 more beaches to the list since last year. The Group says the award is presented to resorts and rural beaches that are well managed with excellent facilities for all. This includes providing first aid, having supervisors, clean toilers and ensuring access and facilities for disabled visitors at each resort. Dogs are also banned from sections of
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Arts Fund to bid for newly-discovered Michelangelo
The National Art Collections Fund has pledged £500,000 towards the purchase of Study of a Mourning Woman, a drawing by Michelangelo, priced at £7.5m. The gift - the Art Fund's largest ever towards a drawing - is to the National Galleries of Scotland, who urgently want to buy the work. The drawing dating from about 1500, was bought by Henry Howard, the fourth Earl of Carlisle, in London in 1747 and was found at Castle Howard,
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Longleat opening delayed due to Foot and Mouth
The launch of Longleat's 2001 season has been delayed due to the Foot and Mouth crisis currently sweeping the UK. The Safari Park, Longleat House and the attractions were scheduled to open in a gala opening featuring Lord Bath and Postman Pat on 24 March 2001. However, the park has had to delay the opening until further notice through fear of the disease. General Manager, Tim Moore, says the management's priority is for the
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Rural Task Force launched to combat effects of Foot and Mouth
As a new Rural Task Force is launched, chaired by the Minister of State for the Environment, Michael Meacher, various initiatives to help the leisure and tourism industries are being aired, as the Foot and Mouth crisis deepens across the UK and now in mainland Europe. Mary Lynch, chief executive of The English Tourist Council, said the ETC has welcomed the invitation to join the Rural Economy Task Force: Our main aim is to get
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Wall of Fame opens in Liverpool
Pop pensioner Lita Roza, the first ever Scouser to scoop a number one hit, is heading back to Liverpool to launch a tribute to scores of the city's chart toppers. In 1953, Lita Roza reached number one with her hit How Much is that Doggie in the Window; now aged 75 she has been invited by Liverpool City Council to unveil the Wall of Fame on Mathew Street. The Wall, a short distance from the Cavern Club, will feature 53 bronze
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ETC publishes group travel guide
The 2001/2002 edition of the England Group and Tour Directory has been published by the English Tourism Council (ETC) aimed particularly at group travel. The All England section lists short break operators, tourist information centres, tourism offices and contains a month-by-month events listings. Regional tourist board sections give information about ground services, coach operators, suggested itineraries and hotel
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Regional Theatre receives Arts Council lifeline
The Arts Council has shared out an extra £25m from the government between regional theatres and touring drama companies. Almost 200 state-funded theatres across England were given a financial lifeline as it was announced that their funding would be raised from £40m annually to £70m by 2003-4. A few companies received substantial rises. The Oxford Playhouse has been given an extra £201,000, a rise of 405 per cent on its grant.
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Blackwell to open this summer
Containing a virtually complete Arts and Crafts interior, Blackwell in Bowness on Windermere in Cumbria is due to open to the public in July. The house was designed by Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott (a central figure among the architects of the Arts and Crafts Movement) and is owned by the Lake district Art Gallery and Museum Trust. Restoration work has been in progress since last spring, mainly with funding derived from a grant
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Sugar sweetens Hackney Empire restoration plan
The 100 year-old Hackney Empire theatre is celebrating a major donation from local-born businessmen, Sir Alan Sugar. Sugar has pledged £1.3m to the Empire, completing its three-year campaign to raise £15m for vital refurbishment, which the theatre has almost never seen since opening in 1901. Having only just escaped demolition in the 1980s, Hackney Empire remains in severe disrepair with a leaking roof, and furniture that, in
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Explosion! bursts into Hampshire
The fuse has been lit for Explosion! - The Museum of Naval Firepower, which is ready to launch in Gosport later this month. The museum is located on the Solent at Priddy's Hard, the 18th century brick buildings home to the former Navy armaments depot. Explosion! takes visitors on an interactive tour of the history of the site through archives and artefacts such as a recreated locker room, an evocative film show, and actual
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7 Mar 2002
Works of art overcome Seattle earthquake
Preventative measures in the structure of Seattle's Art Museum were recognised last week after the city's worst earthquake in 52 years. Of the thousands of artefacts on display, the earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale only damaged two ceramic artworks from Chinese Tang dynasty. Neither of the Seattle's other two museums suffered any damage to structure or artefacts. A senior director at the museum, Gail Joice,
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Former National boss condemns profiteering in Theatreland
Sir Richard Eyre, former director of the National Theatre, has blamed over-priced tickets and archaic buildings for the decline in visits to both West End and regional theatres. Speaking at the Theatre 2001 conference in London, Eyre said that the profiteering of theatre operators had led to general unenthusiasm in theatre, especially among young people, and called for subsidies to slash ticket prices: If we believe it's
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Foot and Mouth crisis bites into leisure industry
As the Foot and Mouth crisis deepens, the financial cost is rippling across many sectors including tourism, hospitality, food companies and bookmakers. Quoted in the Sunday Times, Bob Cotton, chief executive of the British Hospitality Association said he estimated the cost of the crisis at £20m a week for hotels; he estimated that the cancellation of the Cheltenham race festival alone would cost local hoteliers up to £10m:
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Holiday Inn to open at Disneyland Paris
Bass Hotels and Resorts' Holiday Inn brand is to be the first international hotel chain to build a new property at DisneyLand Paris. The 400-bed hotel will have a swimming pool, fitness centre, restaurant and will be accessed via shuttle bus connecting the hotel to both the Disneyland Paris resort and the new Walt Disney Studios, due to open in spring 2002. Chair of Euro Disney SCA, Jay Rasulo, welcomes Bass' input in the
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