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Revamp for Staffordshire arboretum
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National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas to undergo £8m redevelopment
Portmill House, Portmill Lane,
Hitchin, Herts SG5 1DJ, UK By pete hayman
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Fax: +44 (0)1462 433909 The National Memorial
e-mail: please use contacts' Arboretum (NMA) in Alrewas,
fullname@leisuremedia.com Staffordshire, is set to undergo
subscriptions a £8m refurbishment, which
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50,000 trees planted and is
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home to 160 memorials, I
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including the Armed Forces The revamp will include new exhibition spaces and a pavilion
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Memorial dedicated to 16,000
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service personnel who have NMA chief executive Charles we believe will inspire all that
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died on duty since 1945. Bagot Jewitt said: "The brief pass through our doors and
designer
The revamp will include an was to design a scheme which add greatly to the experience
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Armed Forces Pavilion, a not only accommodates the of a visit."
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'Heroes Square', an exhibition increased visitor numbers but is Support for British forces in
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space and an education facility, also a fitting tribute to those Iraq and Afghanistan has led to
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while Glenn Howells Architects that have given their lives in an increase in visitors to the
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has been appointed to remodel the service of their country. NMA and it is expected that
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the landscape to unite the "The team have created the site will attract nearly
account Managers
existing and new buildings. building and event space which 500,000 visitors each year.
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simon hinksman 01462 471905 Parkwood axes sunbeds from leisure centres
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By Tom Walker customers and members' health
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alike are being taken into
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Health club operator and consideration."
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management contractor In July, a report by IARC
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Parkwood Leisure has become declared that it had established
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the latest operator to remove a "clear link" between sunbeds
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all sunbeds from its sites. and skin cancer.
Financial administrator
According to Andrew Holt, The IARC, the World Health
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managing director, the decision Organisation's agency for
to remove all tanning equip-
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research into cancer, reclassi-
ment by 1 January 2010 was fied sunbeds as a Group 1
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made after the group reviewed agent and determined them to
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er The Leisure Media Company Limited. "Health and safety is our "I am pleased to see that the no real health benefits and
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