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Giant's Causeway nets £3m HLF grant
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Historic Northern Ireland attraction one of two confirmed Lottery funding awards
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is planning to preserve and
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also implementing a volunteer- A visitor centre is set to be built to enhance the Giant's Causeway
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ing strategy aimed at including
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the local community in the The facility – regarded as first-ever youth club, these
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site's maintenance. one of Britain's oldest surviving places have mass appeal.
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Liverpool's Florence Institute purpose-built youth clubs – is "Heritage means different
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£3.7m funding from the HLF to purpose community centre. what is really important is these
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help finance an extensive repair HLF chair Dame Jenny places reflect the UK's multi-
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and conservation programme Abramsky said: "This is heritage layer and fascinating history."
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more than 20 years after the in all its kaleidoscopic glory. Meanwhile, the HLF has
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emma Matthews 01462 471907 Olympic chiefs unveil vision for new 'great park'
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By pete hayman ODA chief executive David
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Higgins said: "We are cleaning
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London's Olympic Park is set to up industrial land and creating
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become a new 'great park' in a the green backdrop for the
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bid to help transform east London 2012 Games that in
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London after the 2012 Games, legacy mode will become the
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under new proposals an- UK's largest new urban park in
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nounced by the Olympic over a century.
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Delivery Authority (ODA). "Inspired by the original
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Victorian parks, the meadows,
hectares) of parkland currently
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gardens, woods and river walks
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