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13 Jun 2012
British Museum to use Art Fund Prize money for Spotlight Tours
The British Museum has announced that it will use the £100,000 it received for winning last year's Art Fund Prize to fund a series of Spotlight Tours across the UK.
A number of single "star" objects from the institution's collection will be put on show at venues around the country, such as a bronze bust of Herakles at Bexhill's De La Warr Pavilion from 30 June.
Spotlight Tours will also include the Gayer-Anderson
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13 Jun 2012
US space shuttle Enterprise arrives at new home in New York City
Image: Enterprise on its journey up the Hudson River
Enterprise - the retired US space shuttle - has arrived at its new home at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City following its move from Washington DC.
The vessel had been housed at the Smithsonian National
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12 Jun 2012
BISL report underlines 'significant contribution' of UK leisure industry
Image: John Penrose welcomed the new BISL report
A new study commissioned by Business in Sport and Leisure (BISL) and compiled by global consulting firm Oliver Wyman has underlined the "significant contribution" of the UK leisure sector.
State of the UK Leisure Industry: A Driver for Growth – launched at an event in central London today (12 June) – found that the industry generates in excess of £200bn each year.
The study also revealed that leisure employs 2.6 million people, a
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12 Jun 2012
First Angry Birds Land opens in Finland
The first Angry Birds-themed attraction has opened to the public at the Särkänniemi theme park in Tampere, Finland.
Based on the popular mobile game, the Angry Birds Land includes a number of themed rides and a large play area.
The attraction was designed in collaboration between Särkänniemi, the games developer Rovio Entertainment and exhibition and attractions design company BDR Design Group. Finland-based playset manufacturer Lappset also worked on the project.
The partnership has announced plans to establish a number of Angry
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12 Jun 2012
'Staycation' effect to reach new heights in 2012
Up to 41 per cent of British adults are planning to spend their main holiday in the UK during 2012 - the highest level seen since the beginning of the recession in 2008.
The figures come from the Annual Holiday Index by budget hotel chain Travelodge, which questioned 5,000 adults in the
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11 Jun 2012
New-look Museum of Scotland attracts record crowds
The National Museum of Scotland has attracted a record-breaking 2 million visitors in the 10 months since its reopening last year.
The museum completed a £47.4m refurbishment programme in July 2011 and a target of 1 million visitors was set for the first year - a target which it reached within the first six
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11 Jun 2012
English Heritage sites receive national outside learning awards
The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom (CLOtC) has awarded the first 10 national Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC) Site Provider Awards to English Heritage sites.
Bolsover Castle in Derbyshire and Dover Castle in Kent are among the first 10 recipients of the award - a new benchmark to accredit sites which meets the needs of school visitors.
The awards were launched in May following the success of the
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11 Jun 2012
Irish government announces EUR7m cycle routes investment programme
Image: County Mayo's Great Western Greenway
Irish public transport minister Alan Kelly has announced that 16 individual cycling projects are to benefit from a EUR7m (£5.6m) cycle routes investment programme.
Over the next two years, the schemes will add 334km (208 miles) of cycleways to
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11 Jun 2012
US$300k boost for Scottish National Portrait Gallery's Photography Gallery
The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation has announced funding of US$300,000 (£193,000) for the Scottish National Portrait Gallery's Photography Gallery over the next three years.
As a result of the donation, the photography space at the recently revamped Edinburgh gallery is to be renamed the The Robert Mapplethorpe Photography Gallery.
US-born photographer Robert Mapplethorpe established his foundation 10 months
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11 Jun 2012
Girl 'critically injured' following Chessington ride fall
A four-year-old girl who fell from a height at Chessington World of Adventures, the theme park located on the southern outskirts of Greater London, is in a critical condition at hospital.
The girl – named locally as Jessica Blake – suffered a fractured skull, bleeding to her brain and broken ribs following the 14ft (4.3m) fall from the Tomb Blaster ride queue.
A spokesman for Merlin Entertainments, which operates
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08 Jun 2012
UK tourism 'contributes more to GDP than car manufacturing'
Image: UK tourism was worth £101bn last year
The UK tourism sector contributes more to the economy than car manufacturing or mining, according to new research from the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC).
Oxford Economics compiled the American Express-sponsored report, which found that the
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08 Jun 2012
UNWTO unveils new tourism scheme to protect Georgia's biodiversity
Image: The new project aims to protect ecosystems
A new project designed to protect mountain and freshwater ecosystems through tourism has been unveiled in Georgia by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO).
The initiative has been launched to coincide with World Environment Day
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